Sr. Demand Planner

irhythmtech; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

iRhythm is seeking a Senior Demand Planner to lead the unconstrained demand plan across short-, mid-, and long-term horizons. You will collaborate with Commercial, Finance, Marketing, and Operations to translate market signals and lifecycle events into actionable forecast scenarios for supply and inventory planning.

The role requires 8+ years in demand planning or related fields, strong statistical forecasting skills, and experience with ERP/BI tools.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in demand planning, forecasting, S&OP, or related supply chain roles.
• Experience owning demand forecasts across multiple products, customers, geographies, or lifecycle stages.
• Experience leading consensus demand reviews and influencing cross-functional decisions.
• Experience with statistical forecasting, forecast-performance analysis, scenario modeling, and executive-level decision support.
• Experience with ERP, advanced planning, demand-planning, BI tools; strong Excel skills preferred.
• Experience in regulated or medical device/healthcare environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the unconstrained demand plan across short-, mid-, and long-term horizons using statistical forecasts and cross-functional inputs.
• Lead monthly demand reviews to build consensus forecast and assumptions with Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Customer Care, and Operations.
• Analyze historical demand, orders, customer behavior, trends, promotions, and lifecycle events to identify forecast risks and opportunities.
• Measure forecast performance and coordinate corrective actions; communicate results and insights to stakeholders.
• Develop demand scenarios and sensitivity analyses to support business decisions and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with Supply Planning and Operations to communicate demand changes while preserving unbiased unconstrained demand.

Skills

Advanced demand planning

Statistical forecasting

Forecast segmentation

Consensus planning

Product lifecycle management

Analytical problem-solving

Excel / BI tools

Tools

ERP systems

Advanced planning software

Business intelligence

Excel

Job description

Career-defining. Life-changing.

At iRhythm, you'll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone, everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what's possible. We think big and move fast, driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives. We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career

About This Role:

The Senior Demand Planner is a critical member of the Global Supply Chain organization, responsible for developing a reliable, consensus-based demand plan that connects market signals, customer needs, commercial priorities, and business assumptions. This role leads demand analysis across planning horizons, identifies forecast risks and opportunities, and translates complex inputs into clear scenarios that support supply, inventory, capacity, and financial decisions. The planner partners across Commercial, Finance, Marketing, Customer Care, Operations, Supply Planning, and Analytics to improve forecast quality, visibility, and decision-making.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the unconstrained demand plan for the assigned portfolio across short-, mid-, and long-term planning horizons using statistical forecasts, business intelligence, and cross-functional inputs.
• Lead the monthly demand review process by aligning Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Customer Care, and Operations on a consensus forecast and its underlying assumptions.
• Analyze historical demand, orders, customer behavior, market trends, promotions, product lifecycle events, and commercial intelligence to identify forecast risks and opportunities.
• Measure and communicate forecast performance using appropriate accuracy, bias, value-add, and exception metrics; determine root causes and coordinate corrective actions.
• Develop demand scenarios and sensitivity analyses to support business decisions, financial outlooks, capacity planning, inventory strategies, and supply-risk mitigation.
• Partner with Supply Planning and Operations to communicate demand changes, priorities, timing, and uncertainty while preserving an objective view of unconstrained demand.
• Challenge assumptions constructively, reconcile conflicting inputs, and facilitate fact-based decisions when stakeholder perspectives differ.
• Support new product introductions, product changes, geographic expansion, promotions, discontinuations, and other lifecycle events by incorporating timing, adoption, cannibalization, and uncertainty into the forecast.
• Maintain demand-planning parameters, product hierarchies, master-data inputs, calendars, history adjustments, and documented assumptions needed for reliable system outputs.
• Prepare concise executive-ready summaries of forecast outlook, material changes, performance trends, risks, opportunities, scenarios, and decisions required.
• Lead root-cause analysis for material forecast misses and drive sustainable improvements to demand-planning processes, data quality, governance, tools, and operating mechanisms.
• Coach planning partners and contribute to scalable analytical methods, templates, forecast segmentation, exception management, and demand-planning best practices.
• Operate in accordance with applicable quality, regulatory, compliance, and company requirements; elevate demand risks that could affect customers or patients.

Experience and Minimum Qualifications

• 8 +years of progressive experience in demand planning, forecasting, sales and operations planning, integrated business planning, commercial analytics, or related supply chain roles.
• Experience owning demand forecasts across multiple products, customers, geographies, channels, or lifecycle stages.
• Demonstrated experience leading consensus demand reviews, resolving conflicting inputs, and influencing cross-functional decisions.
• Experience with statistical forecasting, forecast-performance analysis, scenario modeling, and executive-level decision support.
• Experience with ERP, advanced planning, demand-planning, business-intelligence, and data-analysis tools; advanced Microsoft Excel capability is strongly preferred.
• Experience in a regulated, medical device, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other quality-controlled environment is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of demand planning, statistical forecasting, forecast segmentation, consensus planning, and product lifecycle management.
• Ability to combine quantitative analysis with commercial and market intelligence to develop an objective, explainable demand outlook.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, including trend analysis, seasonality, outlier treatment, scenario modeling, root-cause analysis, and exception management.
• Working knowledge of forecast accuracy, bias