Demand Planning Analyst

Intel Corporation; Folsom (CA); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock bonuses

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Intel Corporation is seeking a Demand Planning Analyst for the SCPO team in the United States. The role manages weekly and long-term demand planning processes, ensuring data integrity, cross-functional consensus, and alignment of supply and demand to maximize margins and inventory utilization.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with data governance experience and the ability to translate complex market signals into actionable demand plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, or supply chain analytics.
• Experience with demand planning software, ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle), and advanced Excel/data tools.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and resolve data issues within demand hierarchies and master data to ensure a single source of truth.
• Review and manage weekly RTf (Return-to-Forecast) process and address escalations.
• Collaborate with BU Forecasters, Regional Demand Leads, and Accounts to develop and optimize the Demand Plan for margin and inventory.
• Review proration, consumption, and disaggregation to ensure the plan is consumable by supply chain execution teams.
• Monitor Backlog, Gross Billings, Customer Demand, and Sales Forecasts to make data-driven changes to the weekly plan.

Skills

Data governance

Forecasting analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or related field

MBA or Master’s degree in related field

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Excel

Python

Power BI

Tableau

Sigma

Job description

Job Details

The Supply Chain Planning Operations organization (SCPO) is searching for a Demand Planning Analyst. This role directly reports under the SCPO Demand Planning Director. The Demand Planning Analyst is responsible for managing, optimizing, and executing the weekly and long-term demand planning processes. This role ensures data integrity, coordinates cross-functionally to build consensus forecasts, and balances supply-demand constraints to maximize margin and inventory utilization. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical skills, a keen eye for data governance, and the experience to turn complex market signals into a consumable demand plan.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Governance and Master Data: Proactively identify, address, and resolve data issues within demand hierarchies and demand master data to ensure a single source of truth.


• Execution and Escalation Management: Review and manage the weekly customer Return-to-Forecast (RTF) process and directly address/resolve customer escalations.


• Demand Plan Optimization: Collaborate with Business Unit (BU) Forecasters, Regional Demand Leads, and Accounts to develop a comprehensive Demand Plan. Optimize the plan for maximum margin and the best use of supply/inventory capabilities.


• Supply and Demand Alignment: Review proration, consumption, and disaggregation to ensure the demand plan at the lowest level is entirely consumable by the supply chain execution teams.


• Continuous Monitoring: Review Backlog, Gross Billings, Customer Demand, and Sales Forecasts continuously to make data-driven changes to the weekly demand plan. When applicable, manage and update upper-case/lower-case demand variations.


• Constrained Planning (S and OP Horizon): Develop and recommend the Constrained Demand Plan, incorporating Supply Plans, S and OP Executive decisions, and Business Management Group (BMG) direction on allocation strategies.


• Allocation Facilitation: Facilitate critical allocation decisions with the Supply Management Group (SMG) when market demand exceeds available supply.


• S and OP / S and OE Harmonization: Act as the bridge between execution and strategy, ensuring that Sales and Operations Execution (S and OE) and Sales and Operations Planning (S and OP) demand plans are completely harmonized.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field.


• 4+ years of experience in: demand planning, forecasting, or supply chain analytics.


• demand planning software, ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle), and advanced Excel/data tools.

Preferred qualifications

• MBA or Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations, System Engineering APICS Certification or Supply and Demand Certifications


• Previous experience creating, recommending, and presenting strategies to key decisionmakers and various management levels


• Driving continuous process improvement and people skills development.


• Deep understanding of the business to articulate supply capability and output to stakeholders and executives.


• Establish and maintain relationships while influencing them to move towards a common goal.


• Enabling an environment of inclusiveness, collaboration, truth and transparency, trust, and continuous learning and innovation.


• Passion for motivating, mentoring, and coaching successful leaders, talents, and managers.


• Tolerance for ambiguity and operating in complex and multiorganizational environments.


• Experience building AI/ML forecasting models using Python and leveraging BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau or Sigma.

Job Type

Experienced Hire Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America) Primary Location: US, California, Folsom Additional Locations: US, Arizona, Phoenix, US, California, Santa Clara, US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel.

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $91,060.00-180,820.00 USD. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.