Associate Manager, Demand Planning

Lifestyle Brands (the LSB) is a growing house of like-minded brands under the SC Johnson umbrella including Method®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, Babyganics® and Ecover®. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional operations in Chicago and throughout Europe, the LSB is home to 650 employees. Together we act as a force for bold, transformative growth with a focus on delivering positive impact for people and the planet.

If you’re into pioneering the future and doing good while doing business, come join us. The LSB is part of SC Johnson, a family-owned company and leading manufacturer of household cleaning, home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care products, as well as professional products. Originally founded in 1886 and headquartered in Wisconsin, U.S.A., SC Johnson and the Lifestyle Brands division are at work for a better world.

This is a highly visible and influential role within SC Johnson Lifestyle Brands, offering the opportunity to directly shape business decisions across a dynamic and growing portfolio. Based in San Francisco and reporting to the Manager, Demand Planning, the Associate Manager will own and influence the demand forecast for an assigned product portfolio, translating business insights, customer trends, and data into a clear and actionable demand signal.

As a key partner in the Sales & Operations Planning and Execution (S&OP/S&OE) processes, this individual will collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Planning, and other cross-functional partners to challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and drive alignment around the forecast. The role will also leverage Kinaxis Rapid Response to evaluate forecast quality and ensure demand plans support effective business decisions.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who combines strong analytical thinking with the confidence to influence stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and bring a forward-looking perspective to the business.

• Collaborate closely with commercial partners, gathering insights into business trends, media, and promotional plans to inform and challenge the demand forecast across a 24-month horizon.
• Lead demand planning for innovation and product lifecycle changes, gather and refine assumptions for new product launches/transitions/discontinuations to reflect appropriately in the long-range demand plan.
• Own the demand story for the assigned portfolio within the S&OP process, clearly articulating key forecast drivers, changes, risks and opportunities and providing recommendations to enable cross-functional decision making.
• Work with key stakeholders to represent short-term forecast changes within long-range plans, ensuring alignment across planning horizons.
• Evaluate forecast outputs by identifying volatility, risks, and opportunities in partnership with supply planning.
• Support scenario evaluation and trade-off discussions to help partners understand demand ranges and potential impacts.
• Partner with Commercial, Finance and Supply Chain to translate the brand's strategic growth plans into long-range demand assumptions, identifying implications from innovation, distribution, marketing investment, portfolio changes and emerging business trends.
• Champion AI/ML forecasting technology and digital planning tools to drive efficiencies, improve forecast quality, and enable faster, higher-quality decisions.
• Maintain demand planning master data and planning system integrity to support reliable forecasting and reporting.

Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience in Customer Supply Chain, Inventory Management or Demand Planning Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without…