Demand Forecasting & Capacity Lead — Hybrid

Scaleway; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work up to 3 days remote per wk

Spacious offices near public transport

Healthy meals and Swile lunchcard

Job summary

Scaleway seeks a senior Forecasting Lead to own demand forecasts for Compute, Storage and GPU offerings. You will translate data, product insights and pipeline into reliable projections to guide capacity decisions in a fast-growing cloud environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance and AI Tooling teams, reporting to Albane Bruyas. The role blends analytical rigor with strategic influence across the company.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of professional experience in demand planning, sales forecasting, industrial forecasting, or a related field.
• Proven experience building and managing forecasts end to end in an industrial or technology environment with complex products.
• Strong analytical skills, demand and capacity planning, and improving model accuracy using historical data and analytical tools such as SQL or Python.
• Familiarity with reporting and collaboration tools such as Metabase, Grafana, and Jira is an advantage.
• Fluent in English, with the ability to communicate forecasts, assumptions, and risks clearly to international stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain demand forecasts for Scaleway's Compute, Storage, and GPU offerings, leveraging historical trends, commercial pipeline, and Product team inputs.
• Translate demand forecasts into capacity planning requirements to support infrastructure sizing and operational decisions.
• Develop and continuously improve forecasting models, taking into account seasonality, customer signals, product developments, and exceptional events.
• Challenge assumptions from Product and Sales teams using statistical analysis, historical data, and market insights to establish a reliable, shared forecast.
• Detect changes in demand patterns, assess their impact, and adjust forecasts as new information becomes available.
• Present forecasts, scenarios, assumptions, and associated risks during S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) reviews.
• Collaborate with Data and AI Tooling teams to leverage the analytical capabilities and tools developed internally to improve forecasting performance.
• Structure and refine forecasting processes, ensuring continuous improvement without removing accountability from the teams contributing to the forecast.

Skills

Forecasting

Demand planning

Python

SQL

Metabase

Grafana

Jira

English fluency

Tools

SQL

Python

Metabase

Grafana

Jira

Job description

Scaleway seeks a senior Forecasting Lead to own demand forecasts for Compute, Storage and GPU offerings. You will translate data, product insights and pipeline into reliable projections to guide capacity decisions in a fast-growing cloud environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance and AI Tooling teams, reporting to Albane Bruyas. The role blends analytical rigor with strategic influence across the company.