Strategic Demand Planner, OCI Networking

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 102,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle seeks a Principal Demand Planner in Nashville to drive forecasting strategy and decision-making through advanced modeling and BI, collaborating with Engineering, Product Management, Finance, and Operations.

The role emphasizes building end-to-end demand models, maintaining S&OP processes, and translating business strategy into actionable forecasts for server, storage, and networking products. Strong Excel and SQL skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in demand planning and forecasting.
• Extensive experience developing demand plans and forecasts for new and existing products.
• Understanding of capacity impact from revenue goals, usage, overhead, data center space and power.
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to meet deadlines while maintaining quality and urgency.
• Experience forecasting and planning for server, storage, and networking products.
• Advanced Excel modeling with multiple inputs to drive recommendations.
• Ability to dive deep into data and synthesize insights for executive communication.
• Expert-level Excel analytics to drive action and outcomes.
• Experience with infrastructure hardware (memory, CPUs, JBODs, servers).
• Ability to read and interpret product BOMs and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, iterate, and maintain end-to-end long-range demand planning models at customer, initiative, SKU, and geo level.
• Build demand plans based on strategic goals and inputs from stakeholders across teams.
• Socialize demand plans with senior leaders to achieve alignment.
• Identify forecast risks and develop prioritized mitigations.
• Balance long-range planning with short-term execution and understand end-to-end supply chain.
• Collaborate with Product Management to understand lifecycle impacts on forecasting.
• Provide inputs and analysis of demand data to management and Finance for S&OP.
• Develop routine and ad hoc demand analyses and reports for senior management.
• Maintain demand planning review processes to improve forecast accuracy.
• Translate business strategy into forecasting models using quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Work with BI teams to translate planning processes into system models.

Skills

Forecasting

Demand planning

Excel modeling

Data analysis

Executive communication

Server/storage products

BOM interpretation

Cross-functional collaboration

Portfolio/product lifecycle

High urgency delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or related field

Tools

SQL

Microsoft Office

Excel

PowerPoint

Access

Job description

Oracle seeks a Principal Demand Planner in Nashville to drive forecasting strategy and decision-making through advanced modeling and BI, collaborating with Engineering, Product Management, Finance, and Operations.

The role emphasizes building end-to-end demand models, maintaining S&OP processes, and translating business strategy into actionable forecasts for server, storage, and networking products. Strong Excel and SQL skills are essential.