Demand Planner

Chairmans Foods specializes in producing a wide range of high quality, consistent customer solutions - main courses, side dishes, queso, ready-to-eat protein salads custom solutions for food service operators and retail stores. Chairmans has succeeded over the years with open communication, integrity, and with a deep commitment to southern hospitality.

Driven by our mission, vision and values, employee and food safety are always our top priority.

The Demand Planner is a critical strategic role responsible for designing, building, and continuously improving the demand planning capability across a multi-plant manufacturing network. Reporting directly to the General Manager, this role plans demand for three manufacturing facilities producing a diverse portfolio of make-to-order, short-lead-time products as well as frozen and medium-lead-time items.

This is not a maintenance role. The successful candidate will build and mature a scalable demand planning system, establish forecasting discipline, and embed demand planning into the broader S&OP process. The Demand Planner will translate commercial signals into actionable, time‑phased demand plans that balance customer service, shelf‑life requirements, capacity constraints, and financial performance.

• Design, build, and own the demand planning framework across multiple product types, including make‑to‑order and frozen portfolios.
• Develop statistically driven forecasts using historical demand, promotions, seasonality, and market insights.
• Maintain and adjust forecasts based on customer demand, commercial strategy, and operational constraints.
• Communicate demand risks, opportunities, and assumptions to leadership.

• Serve as the demand planning lead within the S&OP process.
• Prepare demand insights and scenarios for executive S&OP reviews.
• Partner with Sales and Finance to align demand with revenue and financial plans.
• Translate demand plans into actionable requirements for three manufacturing facilities.
• Conduct weekly demand reviews with plant leadership over a rolling four‑week horizon.
• Support production planning and scheduling with clear demand signals.

• Align inventory targets with demand variability, lead times, and shelf‑life constraints.
• Reduce excess inventory and mitigate stockout risk.
• Balance customer service levels with working capital objectives.
• Build and enhance demand planning tools, processes, and reporting.
• Establish forecast accuracy metrics and bias analysis.
• Automate and scale planning processes as the business grows.

• Develop executive dashboards to communicate demand and inventory performance.
• Monitor KPIs including forecast accuracy, bias, and service levels.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, Economics, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in demand planning or forecasting in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience building or improving a demand planning system.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.

• Experience supporting multi‑plant manufacturing networks.
• Experience in make‑to‑order and frozen food environments.
• Proficiency in Excel, Power BI, SQL, and ERP planning tools.
• Experience supporting S&OP processes.

Chairmans Foods is an EEO employer and conducts background checks and drug testing as part of the hiring process.