Demand Planner

Henkel group•Rocky Hill, CT

1d•$105,000 - $125,000

About The Position

The Demand Planner develops and enriches forecasts for make-to-stock products, prioritizing products and customer segments with the greatest business impact and incorporating available market, customer, distributor, and commercial inputs. The role leads regional demand reviews and coordinates approval of the rolling demand plan, while identifying and implementing actions to improve forecast accuracy and reduce bias. The Demand Planner partners with Sales, Market Strategy, Product Management, Marketing, and distributor National Distribution Account Managers on demand-driving events and changes. The role maintains demand-planning history and lifecycle inputs, validates demand assumptions for significant events, and oversees safety stock levels for SBU-owned IDHs, ensuring changes are reviewed and documented with relevant stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Analytics, Finance, Marketing, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
5–7 years of related work experience, including at least 2 years in demand planning, forecasting, business analytics, supply chain planning, or a related area.
Cross-functional understanding of demand planning, sales, distribution, product management, marketing, finance, and supply planning.
Advanced Excel and data-analysis capability.
Experience with enterprise planning, ERP, BI, and CRM tools.
Strong analytical judgment, clear communication, meeting facilitation, stakeholder management, root-cause analysis, and the ability to challenge assumptions constructively.

Nice To Haves

SAP experience.
Demand-planning system experience.

Responsibilities

Develop and enrich forecasts for make-to-stock products, prioritizing products and customer segments with the greatest business impact and incorporating available market, customer, distributor, and commercial inputs.
Lead regional demand review meetings and coordinate sign-off of the rolling demand plan.
Identify, recommend, and implement actions to improve statistical and consensus forecast accuracy and reduce forecast bias.
Serve as the primary demand-planning partner to Sales, Market Strategy, Product Management, and Marketing for demand-driving events, including competitive changes, market growth, new opportunities, promotions, customer gains or losses, and product transitions.
Partner with distributor National Distribution Account Managers and participate in QBRs with key distributors to review demand trends, forecast accuracy and bias, inventory signals, significant variances, and corrective actions.
Maintain and cleanse demand-planning history, documenting adjustments for abnormal or non-recurring events.
Review and validate demand assumptions for new product introductions, promotions, customer gains or losses, discontinuations, and other significant events.
Maintain product lifecycle inputs in applicable planning systems and ensure the demand plan reflects current product status and transition timing.
Oversee safety stock levels for SBU-owned IDHs, ensuring changes are reviewed, documented, and aligned with appropriate business stakeholders before implementation.