Senior Demand Planner

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Aguadilla, PR

17d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Demand Planner evaluates multiple business plans to ensure they are operationally executable against defined strategic objectives. The role leads and partners with cross-functional teams to develop short-term business plans, typically covering less than two years, and to support data-driven models. It ensures activities align with plans across stakeholders, sets business metrics, evaluates actual performance, and recommends actions to business leaders. The planner develops analyses to optimize resources and translate business plans into financial value, triangulating with Sales, Business, and Finance to produce an optimal plan.

The role is hybrid, requiring an average of two days per week from an HPE office. The position is part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Business Planning job family and is listed at the Master job level.

Requirements

• Knowledge of industry-standard key performance indicators for demand, supply, and inventory planning, and their business impact when targets are not met.
• Advanced degree in Supply Chain Management, Business/Data Analytics, Finance or Economics, or Industrial Engineering (for example, an MBA), or demonstrable equivalent.
• Typically 10–15 years of work experience in supply chain strategy, planning, operations, finance, or a related functional area.
• Advanced English proficiency and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel experience and significant experience with ERP planning systems.
• Extensive knowledge of research methodology for key business issues.
• Excellent analytical thinking, technical analysis, and data manipulation skills.
• Ability to use new analytical techniques to develop creative approaches to business analysis.
• Extensive knowledge of analyzing business problems using Excel, Access, statistical analysis, and financial modeling.
• Excellent business acumen and technical knowledge.
• Strong project management skills, including leading large cross-functional initiatives.
• Well-developed relationship management skills, including partnering and consulting.
• Excellent leadership skills, including team building, conflict resolution, and management.
• Ability to identify emerging trends from market and industry data.
• Ability to manage time, actions, and activities in support of meeting or exceeding key performance indicators.

Nice To Haves

• APICS or IBF certification is desired.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex data and business analyses to develop business plans and identify recommendations and insights.
• Independently construct complex statistical and financial models to forecast business performance and coach others on model development.
• Establish business performance metrics and develop processes for identifying and addressing performance gaps.
• Manage complex, time-sensitive market research projects and prepare synthesized intelligence reports with clear implications.
• Lead cross-functional teams across business planning activities.
• Contribute creative insights and recommendations to priority projects.
• Partner with business leaders to develop business plans and proactively identify opportunities.
• Develop forward-looking business plan recommendations based on potential risks and returns.
• Identify analytical tools, models, and methods for key business decisions.
• Evaluate actual performance and recommend actions to help achieve performance targets.
• Work with Sales, Business, and Finance to produce an optimal plan.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits intended to support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing for team members and their loved ones.
• Career development programs to help employees reach career goals, deepen expertise, or apply skills in another division.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior