Demand Planner

ZipRecruiter; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Demand Planner to manage and forecast inventory for all product categories. This hybrid role requires collaboration with sales, marketing, and operations teams to improve order fulfillment and maintain optimal inventory while ensuring product availability. The ideal candidate will have a BA/BS in Supply Chain or similar, along with significant experience in demand planning and forecasting.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant forecasting or demand planning experience required.
• Intermediate Excel skills expected.
• Experience working with both internal and external supply sources.

Responsibilities

• Drive consensus demand forecast for North America using historical sales data.
• Ensure optimal inventory levels while avoiding stockouts.
• Continuously monitor forecast accuracy and adjust based on market conditions.

Skills

Analytic capabilities

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

BA/BS in Supply Chain Management

Statistics

Engineering

Tools

SAP ERP systems

Blue Yonder

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

Job Title: Demand Planner

Department: Supply Chain

Location: Charlotte, NC

FLSA Status: Exempt

This position is a hybrid position: 3 days in the Charlotte, NC office and 2 days remote work. At this time, we are not offering sponsorship or relocation assistance for this role.

Summary

A Demand Planner is responsible for forecasting, planning, and managing the demand for all product categories within the company. This role is essential for ensuring that the business has the right amount of inventory to meet market demand without overstocking or understocking. The Demand Planner will lead continuous improvement efforts by utilizing statistical analysis to support fact-based decision making, incorporating historical trend analysis. The Demand Planner will collaborate with key stakeholders in sales, marketing, and operations to ensure product availability, while minimizing excess inventory. The Demand Planner will work together with these groups to drive a consensus demand plan that serves as a foundation for critical downstream business processes. They will devise forecasting strategies that result in high accuracy and on-time order fulfillment. This position will drive long term, annual and tactical planning.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demand Forecasting: Drive consensus demand forecast for complete North America market using historical sales data, seasonality and input from sales and marketing teams. The planner ensures to have a monthly demand sign-off meeting with sales leaders

• Collaborate with Teams: Work cross-functionally with sales, marketing and factories globally to align demand forecast with business targets.

• Inventory Management: Ensure optimal inventory levels are maintained by balancing demand and supply while avoiding stockouts and excess inventory. Also, closely work with sales and marketing teams to reduce slow moving/non-moving inventories.

• Forecast Accuracy & BIAS: Continuously monitor and review forecast accuracy and BIAS with sales and product team to adjust future demand based on changing market conditions.

• Promotions & New Product Launches: Closely work with product management team to incorporate sales forecasts for promotions and new product launches into the demand forecasting process.

• Factory Coordination: Work with supply planners to ensure the timely order placement and replenishment of products based on demand forecasts.

• Process improvement: Continuously work to enhance supply chain strategies by evaluating industry “Best Practices” in forecasting as well as understanding technological advances throughout industry and how these advances impact the company.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Supply Chain Management, Statistics, Engineering or related field ; a combination of education and experience will be considered.

• 5-7 years of relevant forecasting, demand planning, or supply chain management experience required

• Demonstrated analytic and problem-solving capabilities. Able to draw conclusions and provide business insight from working with multiple sets of data.

• Experience working with both internal and external sources of supply.

• Experience working with SAP ERP systems ; candidate will have experience with Blue Yonder.

• Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite of products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

• candidates will have intermediate Excel skills

• Exemplary communication skills (verbal, written, interpersonal).

• Global supply chain experience a plus