Senior Decision Scientist – Demand Planner

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Senior Decision Scientist – Demand Planner - Fractal Analytics is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets.

An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better. We believe that a true Fractalite empowers imagination with intelligence. And that it will be such Fractalites that will continue to build the company for the next 100 years.

Location:

Palo Alto, CA and Burlingame, CA (Preferred) or Remote

We are seeking a highly analytical Demand Planner to support demand forecasting and planning for a portfolio of consumer products across multiple markets and sales channels.

The Demand Planner will analyze historical sales, Sell-In and Sell-Through performance, channel inventory, seasonality, promotions, product launches, and other demand signals to develop accurate and actionable forecasts. Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Supply Planning, Channel Operations, Finance, and Analytics teams, this role will help identify changes in demand, investigate forecast gaps, maintain planning assumptions, and ensure that the latest market intelligence is reflected in the demand plan.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone early in their supply chain career who enjoys working with data, solving business problems, and understanding how customer demand translates into inventory and production decisions.

Develop and maintain demand forecasts across products, markets, customers, and sales channels. Analyze historical demand, Sell-In, Sell-Through, channel inventory, promotions, seasonality, and market trends. Maintain weekly and monthly forecast updates based on the latest business inputs. Support bottoms-up forecasting at SKU, channel, customer, and regional levels. Assist with forecasting for new products where limited historical data is available. Document forecast assumptions and changes to improve planning transparency.

Track key demand planning metrics including:
Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, Sell-In vs. Forecast, Sell-Through vs. Forecast, Weeks of Supply, Channel Inventory. Investigate significant forecast misses and perform root-cause analysis. Identify patterns and emerging demand trends within large datasets. Highlight unusual changes in sales, channel inventory, or market performance. Develop reports and dashboards to make demand trends easier for stakeholders to understand.

Support demand planning for New Product Introductions (NPI) and product launches. Develop initial launch forecasts using comparable products, market assumptions, and commercial inputs. Monitor early Sell-Through performance and recommend forecast adjustments. Support transitions between existing and next-generation products. Monitor slowing demand and inventory exposure as products approach End-of-Life (EOL). Help ensure forecasts appropriately reflect different stages of the product lifecycle.

Prepare demand data and analyses for the monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. Consolidate forecast inputs from Sales, Marketing, Channel, and other stakeholders. Identify material changes between the previous forecast and latest demand plan. Prepare summaries explaining key forecast changes, assumptions, risks, and opportunities. Track follow-up actions from demand…