Senior Decision Scientist – Demand Planner

Fractal Analytics; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fractal Analytics is seeking a highly analytical Senior Decision Scientist – Demand Planner to support forecasting and planning for a diverse portfolio of consumer products. This role emphasizes turning data into actionable forecasts across multiple markets and channels.

You will partner with Sales, Marketing, Supply Planning, Channel Operations, Finance, and Analytics teams to identify demand changes, close forecast gaps, and ensure the latest market intelligence informs the plan.

Qualifications

• Experience in demand forecasting and planning across markets and sales channels.
• Ability to analyze historical sales and inventory signals to develop forecasts.
• Experience collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Supply Planning, and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain demand forecasts across products, markets, customers, and sales channels.
• Analyze historical demand, Sell-In, Sell-Through, channel inventory, promotions, seasonality, and market trends.
• Maintain weekly and monthly forecast updates based on the latest business inputs.
• Track key demand planning metrics including Forecast Accuracy and Forecast Bias.

Skills

Demand forecasting

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Forecasting

Job description

It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing!

We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Senior Decision Scientist – Demand Planner

Fractal Analytics is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better. We believe that a true Fractalite empowers imagination with intelligence. And that it will be such Fractalites that will continue to build the company for the next 100 years.

Please visit Fractal | Intelligence for Imagination for more information about Fractal.

Location: Palo Alto, CA and Burlingame, CA (Preferred) or Remote

Role Overview

Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly analytical Demand Planner to support demand forecasting and planning for a portfolio of consumer products across multiple markets and sales channels.

The Demand Planner will analyze historical sales, Sell-In and Sell-Through performance, channel inventory, seasonality, promotions, product launches, and other demand signals to develop accurate and actionable forecasts.

Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Supply Planning, Channel Operations, Finance, and Analytics teams , this role will help identify changes in demand, investigate forecast gaps, maintain planning assumptions, and ensure that the latest market intelligence is reflected in the demand plan.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone early in their supply chain career who enjoys working with data, solving business problems, and understanding how customer demand translates into inventory and production decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Demand Forecasting

• Develop and maintain demand forecasts across products, markets, customers, and sales channels.
• Analyze historical demand, Sell-In, Sell-Through, channel inventory, promotions, seasonality, and market trends.
• Maintain weekly and monthly forecast updates based on the latest business inputs.
• Support bottoms-up forecasting at SKU, channel, customer, and regional levels.
• Assist with forecasting for new products where limited historical data is available.
• Document forecast assumptions and changes to improve planning transparency.

Forecast Performance & Analytics

• Track key demand planning metrics including:
• Forecast Accuracy
• Forecast Bias "