Senior Demand Planner — Food Forecasting & Planning

Bake n Joy Foods Inc; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 93,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Bake’n Joy Foods, Inc. seeks a Senior Demand Planner to own the demand planning process across all food categories and channels, ensuring product availability while minimizing waste and inventory costs.

You will partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Production and Customer Service to deliver accurate forecasts that support production scheduling, procurement and distribution, and to build a trusted, cross-functional planning process.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Food Science, or a related field.
• 5-8+ years of experience in demand planning or forecasting, preferably within the food or CPG industry.
• Experience using demand planning software and ERP systems, with participation in system implementations, process transformations, or planning technology deployments strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of the food supply chain dynamics, including shelf life, cold chain logistics, and seasonality.
• Proven track record of improving forecast accuracy and driving cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop short- and long-term demand forecasts for food products, incorporating shipment history and demand drivers such as trends, seasonality, promotions, new product launches and downstream data.
• Partner with Sales and customer-facing teams to understand demand drivers, challenge forecast assumptions, improve forecast accountability, and develop a collaborative planning process.
• Support the development of demand planning governance, standard planning cadences, and cross-functional alignment while helping the organization progress toward a more formal S&OP and integrated business planning process.
• Proactively identify forecast risks, demand exceptions, and emerging business trends, facilitating timely cross-functional action and decision-making.
• Monitor forecast accuracy (MAPE, bias) and analyze root causes of variance to refine forecast assumptions.
• Support SKU portfolio optimization and rationalization initiatives through analysis of demand trends, inventory performance, customer adoption, lifecycle status, and business value.
• Contribute to reducing finished goods inventory carrying costs by enhancing forecast accuracy and increasing visibility to inventory health.

Skills

Forecasting

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Change leadership

Education

Bachelors degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Food Science, or related field

APICS certification (CPIM, CSCP) is preferred

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

JD Edwards / ERP/MRP

Job description

Bake’n Joy Foods, Inc. seeks a Senior Demand Planner to own the demand planning process across all food categories and channels, ensuring product availability while minimizing waste and inventory costs.

You will partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Production and Customer Service to deliver accurate forecasts that support production scheduling, procurement and distribution, and to build a trusted, cross-functional planning process.