Demand Planner
About The Position
The Demand Planner helps ensure products are available at the right time by forecasting customer demand and managing inventory. The role analyzes sales and market trends, creates forecasts, plans stock levels, coordinates with cross-functional teams, monitors shortages and excess inventory, supports the S&OP process, and works to improve product availability, costs, and supply chain efficiency. The position also supports integrations and workflow processes across systems, ensures accurate information flow among supply chain, warehouse, purchasing, and sales, and works with functional teams on operational goals and deliverable quality. It contributes to SCM project planning and reviews, operational performance improvement, master data governance, and the development of processes and KPIs for supply chain data. The role analyzes inventory, production, and demand; optimizes supply chain system inputs; and anticipates MRP and inventory-management changes. Other related duties may be assigned by management.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of related experience.
- Forecasting customer demand based on sales history, promotions, POS data, market trends, and new launches.
- Ability to analyze forecast error drivers and collaborate with Sales and Marketing to improve forecast accuracy.
- Ability to identify demand risks and opportunities and present scenarios for cross-functional review.
- Ability to maintain inventory levels that support service levels and in-stock KPIs.
- Experience reviewing inventory trends and managing backorders, allocation, execution planning, and inventory adjustments.
- Strong analytical abilities, extensive spreadsheet analysis, and strong mathematical abilities.
- Good communication, team-building, and people-management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Logistics, and Finance.
- Consistency, resilience, and a long-term career plan; the posting references KISS.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of or experience with SAP or similar forecasting software.
- A bachelor's degree in Business, Statistics, or a related field; a Statistics major is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Support the enhancement, development, and maintenance of integrations, scope changes, and workflow processes with other systems, both technical and operational, to enable data-driven decision-making.
- Ensure efficient and accurate information flow among supply chain, warehouse, purchasing, and sales.
- Coordinate with functional teams to ensure solution components work together and meet operational goals, including integration, quality, and performance requirements.
- Develop detailed project plans and participate in project reviews for ongoing SCM projects.
- Contribute to global operating model design, operations performance improvement, operations excellence capability development, and Lean/Six Sigma talent and performance management.
- Analyze inventory levels, production speed, and product demand to determine optimal inventory levels.
- Analyze and manage inputs to supply chain systems to optimize service and financial supply chain metrics.
- Anticipate stakeholder requirements for changes to MRP and inventory management.
- Provide functional support for master data governance and troubleshooting with the SCM Analytics team, and understand SCM execution touchpoints.
- Develop processes to govern and validate supply chain data and build KPIs to track their impact.
- Forecast future customer demand using sales history, promotions, POS data, market trends, and new launches.
- Improve forecast accuracy by analyzing error drivers, collaborating with Sales and Marketing, and using statistical tools.
- Identify demand risks and opportunities, including upside and downside scenarios, for cross-functional review.
- Maintain inventory levels that support service levels and in-stock KPIs.
- Review inventory trends, including excessive, newly excessive, and aging inventory, and identify liquidation opportunities.
- Manage backorders, allocation, execution planning, and adjustments such as write-offs.
- Execute inventory grading and align safety stock, coverage, and replenishment strategies with POS performance.
- Monitor backorder risk and develop contingency plans, including alternative sourcing and expedited routes.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by management.
Benefits
- Premium medical insurance coverage.
- 401(k) savings plan.
- Paid time off based on seniority.
- Paid holidays.
- Annual bonus plan.
- Onsite employee fitness center with indoor racquetball court and yoga room.
- Summer Fridays.
- Complimentary gourmet breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- Relocation support for new hires.
- Work anniversary recognitions.
- Congratulatory and condolence gifts.
- Employee referral bonus program.
- License and certification reimbursements.
- Corporate employee discounts.
- Company-paid visa sponsorship, including new H-1B, H-1B transfer, O-1, and Green Card sponsorship.
- Commuter support, including shuttle bus and EZPass support.
- Vehicle perks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
