Senior Manager, Demand Planning

YETI Coolers, LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

YETI is seeking a Senior Manager, US Demand Planning to lead the US Demand Planning organization, forecast governance, planning tools, and cross-functional alignment. You will translate commercial strategies and market signals into a scalable, data-driven demand plan and influence senior leaders across Product, Merchandising, Finance, and Sales.

The role requires strong analytical capability, people leadership, and the ability to drive Integrated Business Planning with a focus on forecast

Qualifications

• 8+ years in demand planning, supply chain planning, analytics or related discipline.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience.
• Experience leading S&OP/IBP in a multi-channel environment.
• Experience with SAP IBP or equivalent planning platform.
• Advanced Excel skills and data visualization experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the US Demand Planning function and team.
• Own the consensus demand plan across channels and horizons.
• Drive IBP, S&OP processes and executive planning cadence.
• Partner with Finance, Supply Planning, Product and Commercial teams.

Skills

Leadership

Demand planning

Forecasting

Cross-functional influence

SAP IBP

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related field

Tools

SAP IBP

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

At YETI, we believe that time spent outdoors matters more than ever and our gear can make that time extraordinary. When you work here, you'll have the opportunity to create exceptional, meaningful work and problem solve with innovative team members by your side. Together, you'll help our customers get the high-quality gear they need to make the most of their adventures. We are BUILT FOR THE WILD™.

About the Role

YETI is seeking a Senior Manager, US Demand Planning to lead the US Demand Planning organization and advance our forecasting, planning, and Integrated Business Planning capabilities. This role leads a team of Demand Planners and serves as the primary owner of the US demand planning process, forecast governance, planning tools, and cross-functional demand alignment.

The Senior Manager translates commercial strategies, market dynamics, product launches, promotions, and customer signals into a scalable, data-driven demand plan that enables operational and financial decision-making. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical capability with people leadership, operational rigor, and the ability to influence senior leaders across Product, Merchandising, Finance, Supply Planning, Business Planning, Sales, Commercial Operations, and Global Planning.

What You'll Bring

• Lead the US Demand Planning Function
• Provide leadership for the US Demand Planning team, including hiring, coaching, developing, and retaining planning talent.
• Establish clear priorities, operating rhythms, accountability, and escalation paths across the planning organization.
• Build organizational capability through training, process documentation, succession planning, and best-practice sharing.
• Protect team capacity by prioritizing high-value planning work and appropriately managing ad-hoc requests.
• Own the Consensus Demand Plan: Lead development of the US consensus demand forecast across channels, categories, and planning horizons.
• Ensure forecasts reflect aligned commercial, product, customer, market, and financial inputs while maintaining forecast integrity.
• Lead demand reviews and alignment discussions, translating risks, opportunities, assumptions, and forecast changes into clear recommendations.
• Champion an unconstrained demand view that represents market demand and provides a clean input to supply, inventory, and financial planning.
• Drive Integrated Business Planning: Lead the monthly demand review and planning cadence, including calendar governance, deliverable quality, and decision readiness.
• Partner with Finance, Supply Planning, Product, Business Planning, and Commercial teams to support S&OP and executive planning processes.
• Deliver executive-ready demand narratives, scenario analyses, risk and opportunity assessments, and recommended trade-offs.
• Ensure demand decisions support financial commitments, inventory objectives, service levels, and profitable growth.
• Establish clear ownership, decision rights, and planning governance across Regional Demand Planning, Global Planning, Product, Supply Planning, Finance and Business Planning.
• Implement RACIs and operating routines that reduce ambiguity, clarify handoffs, and strengthen accountability.
• Standardize planning processes, templates, reporting, assumptions, milestones and quality controls.
• Reduce late-cycle rework and process exceptions through stronger deadline governance and upstream input accountability.
• Serve as a senior business leader for demand planning systems, tools, data quality, and reporting capabilities.
• Partner with Technology and Global Planning on SAP IBP enhancements, process improvements, automation, and the planning capability roadmap.
• Drive forecast accuracy improvement through segmentation, root-cause analysis, statistical forecasting, scenario modelling and exception-based planning.
• Advance the use of AI, Copilot, automation, dashboards and scalable analytics to reduce manual effort and improve decision quality.
• Act as a planning partner for assortment, lifecycle, portfolio, promotional, channel, and new product decisions.
• Integrate customer, retailer, market and commercial insights into demand assumptions and scenarios.
• Support go-to-market readiness, launch planning, demand shaping, channel expansion and other strategic growth initiatives.
• Represent US Demand Planning in cross-functional and leadership forums, constructively challenging assumptions and surfacing business implications.
• Create clarity and accountability in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Balance strategic leadership with disciplined day-to-day execution.
• Lead through influence and build trusted partnerships across US and Global teams.
• Develop scalable solutions rather than relying on reactive workarounds.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, curiosity, innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

Leadership Expectations

• Create clarity and accountability in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Balance strategic leadership with disciplined day-to-day execution.
• Lead through influence and build trusted partnerships across US and Global teams.
• Develop scalable solutions rather than relying on reactive workarounds.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, curiosity, innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Operations, Analytics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in demand planning, supply chain planning, business planning, finance, analytics or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including coaching and developing planning talent.
• Demonstrated experience leading S&OP, IBP, or executive planning processes in a complex, multi-channel environment.
• Strong forecasting, analytical, financial and scenario-modeling capabilities.
• Experience with enterprise planning platforms such as SAP IBP or an equivalent solution.
• Advanced proficiency with Excel and experience with visualization and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Proven ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders and translate complex analysis into clear decisions.
• Preferred Experience: Consumer products, retail, apparel, outdoor, sporting goods or omnichannel experience.
• Experience managing seasonal volatility, product proliferation and new product introductions.
• Experience leading planning transformation, operating model design, systems implementation or process modernization.
• Experience applying AI, automation, and advanced analytics within planning workflows.

Measures of Success

• Forecast accuracy and bias performance against established targets.
• Quality, timeliness and adoption of the consensus demand plan and monthly planning cadence.
• Improved data quality, process compliance, reporting consistency and reduction in manual rework.
• Inventory and service outcomes, including inventory health, weeks of supply and excess and obsolete inventory exposure.
• Team engagement, retention, capability development and succession readiness.
• Progress in IBP maturity, planning system adoption, automation and cross-functional role clarity.

Benefits & Perks

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