Senior Demand Planner, Performance - North America

Salomon • Ogden, UT

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Demand Planner owns the development and delivery of a market-driven demand plan for the North American business. The role creates clear, accurate forecasts that align commercial goals with inventory investment and financial targets, connecting sales, merchandising, and global planning teams around a single view of demand. It uses data, market insight, and category knowledge to guide buying decisions, improve forecast accuracy, and support business performance. This is a strategic role that involves challenging assumptions, influencing stakeholders, and aligning the business to a demand plan that supports growth while managing risk.

The role owns end-to-end demand planning at model, color, size, and monthly levels; category and inventory performance; demand consensus; sales order and buy management; and process improvement. It also mentors junior and newly onboarded team members and supports planning tools, reporting, and standardized processes. The position is based in Ogden, Utah, reports to the Director, Planning, and includes 20% travel.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in demand planning, merchandise planning, or supply chain planning.
• Strong analytical capabilities and ability to translate data into strategic and tactical actions.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to travel 20%.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in the lifestyle, outdoor, or athletic industry, with a focus on softgoods.
• Previous merchandising experience; advantageous but not required.
• Experience with planning systems.
• Experience in apparel, footwear, outdoor, or consumer goods industries.
• Experience working in global or matrixed organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end demand plan at model, color, size, and monthly levels.
• Develop and maintain a consensus-based forecast aligned to service-level targets, inventory goals, and commercial plans.
• Translate forecasts into actionable inputs for open-to-buy and supply planning.
• Analyze, challenge, and refine market forecasts to balance growth objectives with inventory risk.
• Manage complex categories, including new product launches and variable demand patterns.
• Drive category performance against inventory, productivity, and service KPIs.
• Monitor inventory health, turns, and sell-through, identifying risks and opportunities proactively.
• Apply SKU productivity frameworks, such as 80/15/5, to inform demand and buy recommendations.
• Partner with merchandising on assortment productivity and lifecycle decisions.
• Lead or contribute to demand consensus forums and provide data-driven recommendations.
• Align sales, merchandising, marketing, finance, and supply chain stakeholders around a single demand plan.
• Serve as the key point of contact between market and global planning teams and influence alignment among demand, supply, and financial goals.
• Participate in sales order deadline booking processes and key planning checkpoints.
• Lead market conversations with global demand and supply planning to ensure timely buys and provide market input on blind buys.
• Collaborate on capacity constraints and available mitigation actions.
• Represent buy cadence within the market and organize teams to make timely, informed buy decisions.
• Mentor junior and newly onboarded team members and support their onboarding through coaching on tools, processes, and best practices.
• Identify and lead process improvements to enhance forecast accuracy and planning efficiency.
• Support development of tools, reporting, and frameworks to scale demand planning capabilities.
• Drive adoption of standardized planning processes across teams.
• Own inventory targets and turns by category, SKU productivity, shipment and revenue forecast accuracy, buy plan adherence, and inventory risk management.

Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule.
• Generous paid time off policy, 15 paid annual holidays, and 3 floating holidays.
• Half-day Fridays for 5 months of the year.
• Employee discount on company products and sister brands.
• Powder Bell powder days throughout the winter season.
• Healthy Lifestyle Benefit to support well-being and an active lifestyle.
• Opportunities to engage in the community and with industry partners.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed