Senior Demand Planner

Ooni•Austin, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Since launching the world’s first portable wood-pellet pizza oven in 2012, Ooni has grown into an award-winning, multinational company with a product range loved by pizza makers all over the globe. Our mission has always been to design innovative products that spark joy in our customers, and whilst we’re incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished so far - we’re only just getting started. Are you driven by turning data into decisions that keep pizza ovens flowing to customers all over the world? Are you passionate about building a forecast the whole business can plan around? If so, keep reading! We’re looking for a Senior Demand Planner to join our global planning team. This role is based in Austin, TX. It is a dual focussed role, supporting our North American commercial teams but also forecasting global demand for several of our hero product categories. This is a hybrid role, working 3 days per week from our office in Austin, TX, reporting into the Senior Demand Planning Manager in our Scottish HQ and dotted line to the VP of Sales and Commercial Operations.

Requirements

Several years’ experience in demand planning or forecasting, ideally within a consumer products, retail or CPG environment.
Proven ability to develop and maintain a highly accurate 24-month rolling demand plan.
Experience contributing to S&OP activities across functions, and supporting agreed processes, policies and standards.
Effective use of a demand forecasting platform (e.g. NSPB or equivalent) to build and maintain the demand plan, taking the lead on resolving platform issues.
Strong command of relevant data sources, with the ability to perform analysis and report findings in a clear and concise format.
A collaborative approach to working with peers across the business to ensure the demand plan reflects all known activity.
Experience tracking and reporting on planning KPIs and performing root cause analysis to drive improvement.
Ability to work independently on complex, longer-term planning tasks, taking ownership of timelines and driving outcomes without the need for continual guidance.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in both wholesale and Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) environments, and comfortable balancing the planning needs of both channels.
A track record of evaluating performance and seeking innovative ways to increase effectiveness.
Awareness of how demand planning decisions affect the 3-year plan, with experience identifying risks and opportunities.
Experience identifying trends or events likely to impact the plan, determining impact and probability, and proposing mitigation options.
Familiarity with managing SKU transitions and reflecting product lifecycle in the demand plan
Understanding of supply chain lead times, constraints and dependencies to align customer demand with realistic availability and delivery expectations.

Responsibilities

Maintain highly accurate, unconstrained and constrained 12-month rolling demand plans for your assigned region and global categories, based on bottom up planning activities owned by our commercial teams.
Facilitate and execute key steps of the S&OP process, achieving demand consensus and tracking and actioning key actions across the business to improve forecast accuracy and highlighting opportunities to improve overall business performance.
Understand all relevant data sources across Ooni, using that data to perform analysis and report findings in a clear, concise format that drives decision-making.
Work closely with peers across Sales, Category Management and Supply Planning to ensure the demand plan captures all known activity and has a clear route to delivery.
Track and report on function KPIs, performing root cause analysis to drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy.
Work independently across an expanded range of demand planning tasks, planning 6–12 months ahead and feeding your observations and insight into the team’s wider strategy.