Senior SIOP Demand Planner

Position Summary The Senior SIOP Demand Planner is a strategic business partner responsible for leading demand planning excellence across assigned product families, markets, and regions. This role serves as the primary interface between Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product Management, Supply Planning, and the Supply Chain Center of Excellence (COE), ensuring a high-quality demand signal that enables world-class customer service, inventory optimization, operational execution, and profitable growth.

The Demand Planner owns the monthly demand plan and leads the collaborative forecasting process by combining statistical forecasting, market intelligence, customer insights, and commercial strategy into an executable operating plan. This individual will challenge assumptions with data, influence cross-functional decisions, and drive accountability throughout the monthly SIOP process. Working closely with the Supply Chain Center of Excellence (COE), this role will help standardize planning processes, improve data quality, implement advanced planning technologies, and drive continuous improvement across the global organization.

The Senior Demand Planner is expected to be a leader in the company's digital transformation journey and play a critical role in building a world-class SIOP organization.

• Own the monthly demand plan for assigned product families and regions.
• Develop statistical forecasts utilizing historical demand, market trends, customer intelligence, seasonality, and business analytics.
• Continuously improve forecast accuracy through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Analyze forecast risks and opportunities while developing mitigation and recovery plans.
• Maintain forecast assumptions and document changes throughout the monthly SIOP cycle.
• Develop demand scenarios to support strategic business decisions.

• Serve as the primary Supply Chain business partner to Sales.
• Build strong partnerships with Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Finance, Customer Service, and Operations.
• Lead collaborative forecasting sessions with commercial teams to develop an unbiased consensus demand plan.
• Challenge forecasts using data-driven analysis while supporting commercial growth objectives.
• Translate customer opportunities, promotions, project business, market trends, and competitive intelligence into an executable demand plan.
• Ensure commercial strategies align with operational capabilities and capacity constraints.

• Lead the Demand Review process within the monthly SIOP cadence.
• Present demand trends, forecast assumptions, risks, opportunities, and executive recommendations.
• Partner with Supply Planning to balance customer demand, inventory production capacity, and service levels.
• Drive executive decision-making using fact‑based analysis and business insights.
• Support Executive SIOP meetings with meaningful analytics and recommendations.
• Escalate demand risks early and facilitate cross-functional mitigation plans.

• Partner closely with the Supply Chain Center of Excellence (COE) to develop and deploy standardized global planning processes and best practices.
• Collaborate with the COE to improve master data, planning parameters, and forecasting methodologies.
• Support implementation and optimization of advanced planning systems, AI forecasting capabilities, automation, and digital planning tools.
• Work with the COE to develop dashboards, KPIs, executive reporting, and business analytics.
• Ensure compliance with global SIOP standards and governance.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on planning excellence and operational efficiency.
• Participate in enterprise-wide planning transformation projects.
• Champion organizational change by promoting new planning processes, technologies, and capabilities.

• Develop executive-level dashboards and reporting tools that improve business visibility.
• Monitor Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, Customer Service, Inventory Health, Demand Volatility, and other planning KPIs.
• Perform root cause analysis on forecast performance and…