Senior Demand Planning Analyst

Post Holdings, Inc.; Lakeville (MN); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

Post Consumer Brands in Lakeville, MN is seeking an experienced Demand Planner to own the end-to-end demand planning process for Private Label and co-manufactured pet brands. This hybrid role collaborates across Sales, Marketing, and Supply Planning to build robust item- and DC-level forecasts.

You will combine historical data, POS trends, and customer input to guide budgeting, production, and service decisions while driving process improvements and adoption of standardized tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, mathematics, statistics, or related field.
• 5-10 years of demand planning or supply chain management experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally, influence without authority, and build alignment around decisions.
• Ability to stay organized, manage change, work effectively under pressure, and move multiple priorities forward.
• Experience in consumer packaged goods a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end demand planning process for Private Label and co-manufactured pet business.
• Lead the demand portion of the monthly integrated business planning process with cross-functional teams.
• Build item- and distribution-center-level forecasts using multiple data sources.
• Analyze forecast accuracy and bias; identify root causes and recommendations.
• Turn data and insights into a clear demand story for decisions.
• Collaborate with Supply Planning to align production plans.
• Monitor point-of-sale performance to refine forecasts.
• Drive adoption of standardized Demand Planning processes and tools.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Effective communication

Project management

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, mathematics, statistics, or related field

Tools

Logility

Kinaxis

Demantra

Microsoft Power BI

Job description

Business Unit Overview

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats™, PEBBLES™, Grape-Nuts™ and Malt-O-Meal™ cereal and Peter Pan™ peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™ and 9Lives™ dog and cat food. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn or Facebook for the latest news.

Location Description

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.

Responsibilities

Own the demand forecast for Post Consumer Brands' Private Label and co-manufactured pet business. In this highly visible role, you will combine statistical models, historical trends, customer inputs, point-of-sale data, and commercial insights to build item- and distribution-center-level forecasts that guide budgeting, production planning, deployment, and service decisions.

You will lead the demand portion of the monthly integrated business planning process and bring Demand Planning, Sales, Marketing, Supply Planning, and other partners together around one clear demand story. This role is well suited to an analytical planner who can move between detailed data, customer collaboration, and influential cross-functional conversations while improving tools and ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end demand planning process for the Private Label and co-manufactured pet business.
• Lead the demand portion of the monthly integrated business planning process, including pre-consensus and alignment meetings, to align partners on forecast changes, assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
• Build and maintain item- and distribution-center-level forecasts using historical data, statistical forecasts, customer forecasts, point-of-sale trends, customer collaboration, and commercial input.
• Analyze forecast accuracy and forecast bias, identify root causes, and translate findings into clear recommendations and forecast actions.
• Turn data, trends, and business insights into a concise demand story that supports cross-functional decisions.
• Partner with Supply Planning to communicate demand changes, risks, and opportunities that affect production plans and customer service objectives.
• Analyze point-of-sale performance, when available, including in-stocks, velocity, distribution, and price points to inform future forecasts.
• Use customer software systems and portals to obtain demand and inventory information that strengthens forecast development.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of standardized Demand Planning processes, tools, and ways of working.

Why You'll Love This Role

• Make a direct impact on financial, production, deployment, and customer service decisions for a growing business.
• Lead cross-functional conversations and influence decisions across Sales, Marketing, Demand Planning, and Supply Planning.
• Blend data analysis with business partnership, giving you both hands-on forecast ownership and broad organizational visibility.
• Help shape the future of the planning process as the business prepares for system integration and more standardized ways of working.

Location

This is a hybrid role based in Lakeville, Minnesota, with three days per week in the office. The team typically works onsite Tuesday through Thursday.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, mathematics, statistics, or a related field required.

Required Qualifications

• 5-10 years of demand planning or supply chain management experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to interpret large datasets, identify trends and root causes, and turn insights into forecast recommendations.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain assumptions, risks, opportunities, and recommendations to varied audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally, influence without authority, and build alignment around decisions.
• Ability to stay organized, manage change, work effectively under pressure, and move multiple priorities forward.
• Solutions-oriented approach with strong attention to detail, process-improvement discipline, and project-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in the consumer packaged goods industry.
• Experience with a major demand planning or statistical forecasting platform such as Logility, Kinaxis, SAP APO, Manugistics, or Demantra.
• Experience using customer portals, customer forecasts, point-of-sale data, and inventory information to develop item-level forecasts.
• APICS, IBF, or another relevant demand planning or supply chain certification.

Success in This Role

• Improve forecast accuracy and manage forecast bias at the item and distribution-center level.
• Create a clear, credible demand story that helps cross-functional partners make timely decisions.
• Proactively surface demand risks and opportunities and connect them to production and service implications.
• Build trusted partnerships while demonstrating PCB leadership expectations: Be Bold, Win as One, Act Like an Owner, Bring Joy, and put Safety First.
• Advance practical process and tool improvements while supporting the business through change.

The pay range for this position is $80,166 - $118,645 per year.