Demand Planning Manager

Glanbia•Downers Grove, IL

3d•$100,000 - $135,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager of Demand Planning is a highly visible leadership role responsible for leading the North America demand plan. This leader brings strategic thinking, strong analytical skills, and cross-functional influence to improve forecast accuracy, reduce bias, and support data-driven decision-making across the business. This role leads demand planning processes, performance metrics, and continuous improvement efforts to ensure strong alignment between commercial and supply functions. Success in this role requires building trusted relationships and aligning stakeholders on demand assumptions, risks, and opportunities. The Manager of Demand Planning plays a key role in supporting revenue delivery, service levels, and inventory optimization through a clear, forward-looking demand plan.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Supply Chain Management or related area; APICS/IBF or other advanced degree preferred
Six or more years of demand planning or supply chain experience within a CPG environment
Experience leading or mentoring demand planning, supply chain, or analytics team members preferred
Strong experience with demand planning processes, forecasting tools, S&OP/IBP, and cross-functional stakeholder management
Advanced analytical skills with the ability to translate data into clear insights, recommendations, and business actions

Responsibilities

Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of 3–5 customer demand planners, fostering accountability, continuous improvement, and analytical rigor
Develop, maintain, and improve accurate 18-month rolling forecasts for assigned accounts, leading monthly IBP demand planning collaboration with Sales and customers
Create, maintain, and enhance key forecasting metrics, including accuracy, bias, forecast value, risks, and opportunities, using insights to improve forecast performance
Lead reconciliation of category- and customer-level forecasts to create one aligned demand plan that reflects key assumptions, risks, and opportunities
Synthesize and communicate demand insights through monthly executive reviews, highlighting performance, risks, opportunities, and impacts to revenue, inventory, and service
Analyze weekly POS, inventory, shipment, and demand signals at the customer and category levels to identify trends, risks, and actionable opportunities
Develop training, tools, and workshops to elevate analytical capabilities and demand planning best practices across the organization
Drive data-driven decision-making, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement to enhance forecast accuracy and reduce bias
Serve as a subject matter expert and power user for SAP Analytics Cloud, Blue Yonder/JDA, and other reporting and customer data platforms such as Vendor Central, Retail Link, Spins, and Tableau
Drive cross-functional alignment across Supply Chain, Sales, CP&S, Marketing, and Finance by building trusted relationships and aligning teams on priorities, risks, and outcomes across the North America demand plan