Senior Demand Planner

PURPOSE: The Senior Demand Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining demand forecasts, supporting inventory optimization initiatives, and leading business planning activities across a global network of product lines and business units. This role serves as a key contributor to the monthly SIOP process and partners closely with Sales, Operations, Product Management, Customer Service, and Supply Chain teams to ensure alignment between demand, supply, inventory, and business objectives.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with practical manufacturing planning experience and can independently identify risks, opportunities, and recommendations to improve forecast accuracy, inventory performance, and customer service levels. ESSENTIAL

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own demand forecasts for assigned product lines and business units.
• Analyze historical sales, bookings, backlog, customer demand signals, and market trends.
• Identify forecast risks and opportunities and recommend corrective actions.
• Support monthly Demand Review, Supply Review, and SIOP processes.
• Monitor inventory performance including safety stock, reorder points, max levels, DOS, and inventory turns.
• Recommend inventory planning parameter changes to improve service and reduce excess inventory.
• Evaluate demand plans against manufacturing and supply chain constraints.
• Partner with Operations to understand capacity limitations and inventory impacts.
• Support annual budgeting, projections, and long-range planning activities.
• Develop inventory and forecasting analyses to support business decisions.
• Monitor forecast accuracy, bias, service levels, and inventory metrics.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives related to planning processes and ERP systems.
• Prepare executive-level summaries and recommendations for leadership review.