Principal Program Manager – Demand Planning

Oracle•Nashville, TN

2d•$91,000 - $209,500

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 develops and maintains end-to-end long-range demand models across customers, initiatives, SKUs, and geographies, providing supply chain teams with accurate, timely planning inputs. It consolidates and validates complex data from multiple sources, investigates inconsistencies and outliers, and translates business strategy and qualitative inputs into measurable assumptions and actionable recommendations. The position works closely with engineering, customer management, product management, networking, data center, finance, supply chain, and business intelligence teams. It evaluates forecast performance, product lifecycles, risks, and data gaps; supports short-term execution as well as long-range planning; and provides demand analysis for the corporate S&OP process. The role also presents plans and recommendations to senior leaders and helps develop scalable planning systems and disciplined review processes that improve forecast accuracy, data integrity, and accountability.

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 requiring 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 for forecast accuracy and demand planning performance.
Demonstrated success building, documenting, and improving business processes.
Ability to work across technical and non-technical teams, obtain 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 demand signals from anomalies or incomplete data.
Present demand plans, assumptions, risks, and recommendations to senior leaders to drive alignment.
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 demand impacts.
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 data, assumptions, findings, and unresolved issues.
Maintain demand review processes that 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.
Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on position eligibility.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed annually, with unused time carrying over up to a 112-hour cap.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Financial planning and group legal benefits.
Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.
The role may be eligible for bonus and equity.