Senior Demand Planner

Who We Are

At Body Bio, we’ve been keeping the bad out and the good in for over three generations. Our founder, Ed Kane, a biochemist (and our grandpa) was driven to discover real solutions to modern health issues. Our family has worked tirelessly to continue this legacy.

The Senior Demand Planner (SDP) position is responsible for developing, managing, and continuously improving the company’s sales forecast for finished goods. This role leads the demand planning process by collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations to generate an accurate, data-driven forecast that supports production planning, purchasing, inventory optimization, and financial objectives.

The SDP facilitates demand review meetings, analyzes forecast performance, identifies risks and opportunities, and provides actionable insights to senior leadership to ensure alignment between demand, supply, and business strategy.

Demand Forecasting

• Own and maintain the rolling 12–18 month demand forecast for all finished goods.
• Develop and lead a top‑down and bottom‑up forecasting process.
• Model future sales based on statistical methods such as regression analysis, time series and others while also factoring in customer insights, promotional plans, product launches, seasonality, and market intelligence.
• Align forecast assumptions with Finance for budget and financial planning purposes.
• Ensure forecast is updated for supply planning purposes and aligned with supply planning timelines.

S&OP / Cross‑Functional Alignment

• Lead yearly forecasting for budgeting purposes.
• Taking the top line revenue goals and exploding it down to a mid‑level point in the demand planning hierarchy based on historical data.
• Drive a bottom‑ups forecast with the sales and marketing teams and aggregate them up to a mid‑level point in the demand planning hierarchy.
• Lead consensus forecast agreement by reconciling the top‑down and bottom‑up forecasts.

Lead monthly demand review meetings with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain to continuously improve the demand model and incorporate any new insights.

Present forecast changes, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership.

Communicate significant forecast adjustments to the Master Planner and Supply team to support production planning.

Serve as the primary point of contact for all demand‑related inquiries.

Forecast Performance & Analytics

• Monitor forecast accuracy (MAPE, bias, and other KPIs) at SKU and aggregate levels.
• Perform root cause analysis on forecast variances and implement corrective actions.
• Generate and distribute forecast performance reports to internal stakeholders.
• Develop demand scenario models to assess upside/downside risks.
• Provide insights on customer trends, product performance, and lifecycle transitions.

Inventory & Short‑Term Projection Support

• Partner with Supply Planning to review OOS reports and days‑on‑hand projections.
• Highlight risks driven by forecast variability or promotional spikes.
• Support new product launch forecasting and phase‑in/phase‑out planning.
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to manage demand during constrained supply situations.

Budgeting & Financial Alignment

• Support the annual budgeting process with volume forecasts by SKU and channel.
• Partner with Finance to align demand assumptions with revenue targets.
• Provide volume projections to support production and raw material spend forecasting.
• Participate in business reviews with senior management.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy and planning processes.
• Develop business cases for forecasting tools, automation, or process enhancements.
• Implement best practices in demand planning, statistical modeling, and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Improve data integrity within Sage and planning tools.

• Minimum of 7 years in statistical forecast modeling using a demand planning tool.
• Minimum of 5 years leading S&OP meetings.
• BS/BA required, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, or Business Management.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret large data sets.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, lookups, data modeling);
  PowerPoint proficiency required.
• Experience facilitating cross‑functional meetings with senior functional leads.
• Strong communication, leadership, and relationship‑building skills.
• Highly organized, detail‑oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities. Self‑starter who takes initiative and drives accountability.
• Developing supply planning processes such as MRP in an ERP experience a plus.
• Net Suite experience a plus.
• Ability to travel at least 10% of the time.

We offer a competitive benefits and compensation package!