Demand Planner

Henkel Corporation; Rocky Hill (CT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Henkel Corporation in Rocky Hill, CT is seeking a Demand Planner to develop and enrich forecasts for make-to-stock products, coordinating with Sales, Marketing, and distributors to drive accuracy.

You will lead regional demand reviews, maintain planning data, and ensure timely adjustments for new launches, promotions, and product transitions, reporting to the Supply Chain team.

Qualifications

• Experience in demand planning and forecasting.
• Knowledge of S&OP processes and supply chain metrics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enrich forecasts for make-to-stock products prioritizing high-impact segments.
• Lead regional demand review meetings and coordinate rolling demand plan sign-off.
• Improve forecast accuracy and reduce bias through actions and data cleansing.
• Partner with Sales, Market Strategy, Product Management, and Marketing on demand events.
• Engage with distributors and review trends, variance and corrective actions.
• Maintain and cleanse demand history including unusual events.
• Validate demand assumptions for new introductions, promotions and transitions.
• Keep product lifecycle inputs current in planning systems.
• Oversee safety stock levels for IDHs in coordination with stakeholders.

Job description

About this Position

At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow.

This position is with our Adhesive Technologies business unit – where we empower our people to transform industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings.

Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career and make an impact at Henkel.

What you´ll do

• Develop and enrich forecasts for make-to-stock products, prioritizing the product and customer segments with the greatest business impact and incorporating available market, customer, distributor and commercial inputs.
• Lead regional demand review meetings and coordinate sign-off of the rolling demand plan.
• Identify, recommend and implement actions to improve statistical and consensus forecast accuracy and reduce forecast bias.
• Serve as the primary demand-planning partner to Sales, Market Strategy, Product Management and Marketing for demand-driving events, including competitive changes, market growth, new opportunities, promotions, customer gains or losses and product transitions.
• Partner directly with distributor National Distribution Account Managers (NDAMs) and participate in QBRs with key distributors to review demand trends, forecast accuracy, forecast bias, inventory signals, significant variances and corrective actions.
• Maintain and cleanse demand-planning history, including documented adjustments for abnormal or non-recurring events.
• Review and validate demand assumptions for new product introductions, promotions, customer gains or losses, discontinuations and other significant events.
• Maintain product lifecycle inputs in the applicable planning systems and ensure the demand plan reflects current product status and transition timing.
• Oversee safety stock levels for SBU-owned IDHs, ensuring all changes are reviewed, documented, and aligned with appropriate business stakeholders prior to implementation.