Demand Planner

Job description

Accountabilities: Own and maintain SKU-level demand forecasts across DTC, retail, and marketplace channels, incorporating historical demand, trends, seasonality, promotions, marketing activity, customer plans, and product launches. Develop forecasts for new products and channels using relevant assumptions, analogs, and early performance signals where historical data is limited. Continuously monitor changes in demand patterns and update forecasts as new commercial and market information becomes available. Maintain clear visibility between baseline demand and incremental demand generated by promotions, launches, distribution changes, marketing campaigns, and other commercial activities. Lead the recurring demand consensus process by bringing channel leaders and cross-functional stakeholders together around a single, aligned forecast. Prepare forecast materials highlighting changes, assumptions, risks, opportunities, and decisions required from business stakeholders. Constructively challenge forecasts and business assumptions by reconciling statistical projections, channel expectations, and commercial targets. Establish and monitor demand planning KPIs, including forecast accuracy and forecast bias across appropriate SKU, channel, and category levels. Conduct forecast-versus-actual analysis to identify variance drivers, systematic bias, and opportunities to improve forecasting methodologies and processes. Distinguish underlying consumer demand from factors such as stockouts, inventory constraints, retailer ordering behavior, and other distortions in historical sales data. Maintain accurate SKU attributes, product hierarchies, channel mappings, lifecycle statuses, launch dates, forecast versions, and other planning inputs. Identify opportunities to improve planning systems, reporting, automation, data quality, and operational efficiency. Partner with Supply Planning and Operations to translate forecasts into inventory and supply requirements and identify potential availability risks. Collaborate with DTC, Growth, and Marketing teams to incorporate acquisition plans, promotional calendars, subscriptions, campaigns, and other demand drivers. Partner with Finance during budgeting and planning cycles, translating SKU- and channel-level demand assumptions into revenue and unit planning inputs. Reconcile operational demand plans with financial targets and clearly communicate gaps, risks, and opportunities. Provide forecasts, assumptions, variance analysis, and scenario insights for monthly consensus and planning meetings, helping leadership maintain a clear view of expected demand. Support scenario planning and sensitivity analysis to evaluate the inventory and supply implications of changing demand assumptions. Requirements: 7+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain planning, inventory planning, or a related analytical discipline, preferably within a consumer products or omnichannel environment. Demonstrated experience forecasting across multiple channels, including DTC/e-commerce, marketplaces such as Amazon, and wholesale or retail. Strong understanding of demand planning fundamentals, including forecasting methodologies, seasonality, promotional impacts, new product forecasting, forecast accuracy, and bias. Strong analytical capabilities and the ability to translate complex, large-scale SKU-level datasets into clear business insights and recommendations. Experience maintaining high levels of data accuracy, planning discipline, and data integrity across complex product and channel structures. Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to facilitate consensus among teams with differing priorities and perspectives. Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where demand signals, business priorities, and channel dynamics can change rapidly. Proactive and solution-oriented mindset, with the ability to identify risks and opportunities and recommend actions rather than simply report findings. Experience in CPG, beauty, personal care, household products, or another high-growth consumer brand is a plus. Experience with integrated business planning or S&OP processes is preferred. Experience working with retail customer forecasts, POS data, purchase orders, or retailer inventory dynamics is advantageous. Experience supporting subscription or replenishment-based DTC businesses is a plus. Marketplace forecasting and inventory experience, particularly with Amazon or similar platforms, is beneficial. Benefits: Salary: $120,000–$140,000 per year. Health benefits. Stock options. Generous paid time off. Paid holidays. Paid civic engagement days. Paid parental leave. 401(k) employee contribution program. Professional development stipends. Remote work reimbursements. Discounts with like-minded companies and brands. Fully remote work environment. Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with encouragement for qualified candidates who may not meet every listed requirement. How Jobgether works: We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team. We appreciate your interest and wish you the best! Why Apply Through Jobgether? Data Privacy Notice: By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Jobgether will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy and share relevant information with the hiring employer. This processing is based on legitimate interest and pre-contractual measures under applicable data protection laws (including GDPR). You may exercise your rights (access, rectification, erasure, objection) at any time. #LI-CL1 This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Demand Planner based in United States. This role will own demand planning across a growing omnichannel consumer business, translating commercial activity into accurate and actionable forecasts.You’ll work across DTC, retail, and marketplace channels, managing SKU-level demand across weekly and monthly planning horizons.The position sits at the intersection of Sales, Growth, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations, giving you broad business exposure.You’ll lead demand consensus, challenge assumptions, and create a shared view of expected demand, risks, and opportunities.Your analysis will directly influence inventory efficiency, product availability, supply requirements, and financial planning.The environment is fast-moving and data-driven, requiring someone who can adapt quickly as demand signals, channels, and priorities evolve.This is an ideal opportunity for an analytical, proactive planner who enjoys turning complex data into decisions that support sustainable growth.