Senior Director of Demand Planning

Clean Simple Eats; United States; Remote; USD 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a strategic leader for the demand planning function. This role involves orchestrating the demand planning process, leading a team, and ensuring alignment across sales, marketing, and operations. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in demand planning, strong leadership skills, and a strategic mindset. This position offers a competitive salary and flexible working arrangements, including remote options.

Benefits

Paid time off (flexible)

Paid holidays

Health, dental & vision insurance

401(k) + Company match

Free product allowance

Qualifications

• 10+ years in demand planning or supply chain leadership.
• Proven experience designing and leading enterprise planning processes.
• Experience managing and mentoring planning professionals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the enterprise-wide demand planning strategy.
• Lead the monthly demand planning cycle and demand review.
• Continuously assess and improve forecast accuracy.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data Modeling

Forecasting Methodologies

Scenario Planning

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

We’re looking for a strategic, high-impact leader to own and lead the enterprise-wide demand planning function. This person will be responsible for building a forward-looking, integrated demand signal that aligns sales, marketing, supply chain, and finance around a single source of truth. Unlike tactical forecasting roles, this position is focused on orchestrating the entire demand planning process, setting its rhythm, tools, and expectations, and elevating demand planning into a business-critical function.You will lead a small team, but more importantly, you will lead cross-functional alignment and executive-level decision-making through the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process. This position reports to the VP of Business Transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and own the enterprise-wide demand planning strategy, including process design, governance, and tool selection.
• Lead the monthly demand planning cycle and demand review as part of the IBP process, creating alignment between Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations.
• Serve as the executive voice of the demand signal—owning forecast assumptions, justifying variances, and ensuring all functions plan from the same data set.
• Translate top-down strategic goals and bottoms-up forecasts into actionable demand plans across channels and categories.
• Lead a high-performing demand planning team; coach and develop direct reports.
• Lead scenario planning for key business decisions (e.g., new launches, promotions, retail commitments, or capacity constraints).
• Partner with Operations on alignment between demand forecasts and limited supply.
• Partner closely with Sales and Sales Operations to align on customer-level, SKU-specific forecasts, leveraging historical sales trends, current sell-through data, and projected account-level demand and promotions to drive forecast accuracy and inventory readiness.
• Continuously assess and improve forecast accuracy, identifying root causes of error and implementing corrective action.
• Own the implementation and optimization of demand planning tools and systems in collaboration with IT (e.g., NetSuite, forecasting software).

What Success Looks Like

• A reliable, data-driven forecast used as the foundation for supply planning, inventory decisions, and executive discussions.
• A clear and repeatable monthly demand planning process with high cross-functional engagement and accountability.
• A planning function that evolves from reactive to strategic—proactively guiding the business instead of chasing it.
• Forecast accuracy improvement over time, with visibility into risks and opportunities that allows for better decisions.

Qualifications & Skills

• 10+ years in demand planning, S&OP/IBP, or supply chain leadership, ideally in high-growth CPG or food & beverage.
• Proven experience designing and leading enterprise planning processes—not just executing within them.
• Strong leadership and executive communication skills—you can influence up, down, and across.
• Advanced understanding of forecasting methodologies, data modeling, and scenario planning.
• Experience with ERP and planning systems (NetSuite preferred); capable of driving tool selection or system upgrades.
• Strategic mindset with a bias for action—you balance long-term vision with day-to-day execution.
• Experience managing and mentoring planning professionals.

Salary:$160,000 annually

Location: Remote, or hybrid if near SLC, Utah

Position Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Paid time off (flexible)
• Paid holidays
• Insurance: Health, dental & vision
• 401(k) + Company match
• Free product allowance