Demand Planner Analyst II — Forecasting & SIOP Lead

PLZ Corp; Downers Grove (IL); On-site; USD 79,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company paid Life and Short-Term Dis/I

401k with company match

Paid Time Off

Bonus incentive programs

Job summary

PLZ Corp is seeking a Demand Planner Analyst II to translate customer and sales inputs into a robust demand forecast. The role feeds the SIOP/IBP process and guides stocking and planning strategies. Reports to the Director of Demand Planning and collaborates with Commercial, Marketing and Customer teams.

The position emphasizes forecast accuracy, planning flexibility, and process improvements in a growing consumer goods environment. Competitive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business with emphasis in supply chain, operations management or information systems preferred.
• Strong analytics capability.
• 2-4 years forecasting experience, consumer packaged goods (CPG) preferred.
• 2+ years of SAP experience; Netstock IBP software a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain forecast on assigned areas relative to PLZ planning hierarchy.
• Generate and analyze an unconstrained forecast based on historical data and validate demand with Commercial team.
• Gather and assess intel on trends that influence demand with Commercial, Marketing and Customer teams.
• Facilitate prioritizing demand with Supply and Commercial teams when demand exceeds supply.
• Hold monthly SIOP meetings with key stakeholders.
• Analyze demand variability and lead-time variability; suggest safety stock.
• Publish monthly forecast accuracy, bias and attainment at customer and material level.
• Drive process improvement for demand, flexible planning, rough cut capacity planning and resource planning.
• Assist in documenting assumptions in the demand plan.
• Provide ad-hoc scenario analysis as needed.

Skills

Forecasting

Analytics

Supply chain

Demand planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business with emphasis in supply chain/operations/IS

Tools

SAP

NetStock IBP

Job description

PLZ Corp is seeking a Demand Planner Analyst II to translate customer and sales inputs into a robust demand forecast. The role feeds the SIOP/IBP process and guides stocking and planning strategies. Reports to the Director of Demand Planning and collaborates with Commercial, Marketing and Customer teams.

The position emphasizes forecast accuracy, planning flexibility, and process improvements in a growing consumer goods environment. Competitive benefits are offered.