Principal Program Manager – Demand Planning

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Oracle is seeking a Principal Demand Planner to lead forecasting and decision-making through rigorous modeling, business intelligence, and market analysis. The role focuses on consolidating complex data, identifying patterns and outliers, and turning detailed findings into actionable recommendations. It requires strong attention to detail, cross-functional coordination, and ongoing improvement of strategic demand-forecasting inputs, assumptions, and methods. The position develops and maintains long-range demand models across customers, initiatives, SKUs, and geographies. It coordinates inputs from teams across engineering, customer management, product management, networking, data centers, finance, and supply chain; assesses forecast performance and risk; and presents plans and recommendations to senior leaders. The role also supports corporate S&OP, product lifecycle planning, and scalable planning systems for capacity, resource, and performance requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field.
At least 5 years of relevant demand planning and forecasting experience.
Extensive experience developing demand plans and forecasts for new and existing products.
Advanced ability to consolidate, validate, and analyze large data sets from multiple sources.
Demonstrated ability to identify trends, correlations, data quality issues, and unexplained outliers that require investigation.
Strong attention to detail and a record of producing accurate, high-quality work under tight deadlines.
Understanding of how revenue goals, customer usage, overhead, buffer requirements, and data center space and power constraints affect capacity planning.
Experience forecasting server, storage, and networking demand.
Advanced Excel modeling skills, including complex forecasting models with multiple inputs, assumptions, and scenarios.
Ability to move between detailed data analysis and concise executive-level communication.
Experience working directly with vice presidents and executive stakeholders.
Experience with infrastructure hardware, including memory, CPUs, JBoDs, servers, and related components.
Ability to read and interpret bills of materials, product specifications, and technical documentation.

Nice To Haves

Cloud infrastructure experience.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and make sound decisions with incomplete or conflicting information.
Experience translating large volumes of complex data into clear conclusions, risks, and recommended actions.
Experience defining and maintaining operational metrics that measure forecast accuracy and demand planning performance.
Demonstrated success building, documenting, and improving business processes.
Ability to work across technical and non-technical teams, obtain required inputs, resolve discrepancies, and overcome obstacles.
At least 7 years of experience with Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, and Access.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex information clearly and concisely for varied audiences.
Ability to prioritize competing requests and meet tight deadlines without compromising accuracy.
Working proficiency in SQL.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and improve end-to-end long-range demand models at customer, initiative, SKU, and geographic levels.
Consolidate data from multiple systems and stakeholders; validate data quality, reconcile conflicting inputs, and investigate variances and outliers.
Build demand plans using strategic goals, business trends, historical patterns, and cross-functional inputs.
Coordinate with cross-functional partners to obtain complete, accurate, and timely planning inputs.
Analyze forecast performance, identify patterns and risks, and distinguish meaningful demand signals from anomalies or incomplete data.
Present demand plans, assumptions, risks, and recommendations to senior leaders across capacity planning, operations, supply chain, engineering, customer management, and finance.
Develop prioritized, flexible, and durable mitigation strategies for forecast risks and data gaps.
Balance long-range planning with short-term execution while maintaining an end-to-end understanding of supply chain dependencies.
Partner with product management to evaluate product lifecycles, transitions, substitutions, and their effects on demand.
Provide demand analysis and planning inputs to management, finance, and operations teams supporting corporate S&OP.
Produce routine and ad hoc analyses for senior management, summarizing complex data, assumptions, findings, and unresolved issues.
Maintain disciplined demand review processes to improve forecast accuracy, data integrity, and accountability.
Translate business strategy and qualitative inputs into measurable forecasting assumptions and models.
Partner with business intelligence teams to convert planning processes into scalable system models supporting capacity, resource, and performance requirements.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance and AD&D.
Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
Paid time off, including flexible vacation for eligible salaried employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused hours carrying over up to a 112-hour maximum.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Financial planning and group legal benefits.
Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.
May be eligible for bonus and equity.