Sr. Demand Planning Manager

Pure Storage•Santa Clara, CA

2d•$168,000 - $252,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Supply-Demand Planner at Pure Storage, you will orchestrate the end-to-end demand signal for enterprise data storage platforms. Working with Product Management, Sales, Finance, and global manufacturing partners, you will translate changing market dynamics into supply strategies. The role helps ensure flash and compute hardware reaches customers while improving operational agility, mitigating inventory exposure, and supporting global expansion. The position focuses on demand forecasting, inventory and lifecycle planning, supplier co-planning, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), market intelligence, predictive modeling, and evolving planning processes and tools. The role is primarily office-based at the Santa Clara office, in accordance with company policies. The annual base salary range is $168,000–$252,000 USD. The role may also be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.

Requirements

Experience in demand forecasting, master production scheduling (MPS), and finished-goods or component planning in the technology, hardware, or hyperscale infrastructure sector.
Hands-on experience collaborating directly with contract manufacturers.
Technical and commercial understanding of hardware architectures and global commodity supply dynamics, including compute, storage, networking, and sub-assemblies such as CPUs, NAND, DRAM, and PCIe/HBA cards.
Expertise using ERP systems, demand-management platforms, and advanced analytical tools to turn complex data into inventory strategies and statistical forecasts.
Ability to align cross-functional teams, including Sales, Finance, and Product Management, and external executive vendor partners.
Ability to translate complex supply-chain data into clear business narratives and S&OP recommendations.
Track record of continuous operational improvement, designing scalable supply-chain workflows, and adopting or integrating ERP/S&OP planning tools.

Responsibilities

Combine demand inputs from Sales, Product Management, Finance, and key customer accounts to build a master demand signal that guides procurement, build schedules, and product availability.
Develop and execute inventory strategies to prevent component shortages and Excess & Obsolescence (E&O) exposure, and manage product lifecycle and component-generation transitions.
Work with component suppliers, flash drive manufacturers, and server contract manufacturers on request-commit processes to secure supply commitments.
Provide forecast intelligence for monthly and quarterly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) forums.
Assess global supply-chain trends, geopolitical dynamics, and component market changes to model attach and fill rates and project sub-assembly and commodity needs across compute, storage, and networking hardware.
Promote adoption and optimization of demand-planning tools, data models, and automated workflows to scale planning capabilities and improve forecasting precision.