Demand Planner

Demand Planner

$130000 - $150000 per year | Rockfield, WI | On-site | Permanent

Founded over a century ago, we are a leading manufacturer specializing in innovative aseptic food and beverage processing solutions. With a strong commitment to quality, safety, and continuous improvement, we partner with customers to bring products from concept to full-scale production. Our collaborative culture focuses on communication, employee wellness, and ongoing professional development while investing in modern technologies and advanced manufacturing capabilities.

• High-Visibility Position:
  Directly influence demand planning, inventory strategy, service levels, and working capital
• Strategic Ownership:
  Own forecast accuracy, forecast bias, and key demand planning KPIs
• Cross-Functional Exposure:
  Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Planning, Key Account Management, PMO, and senior leadership
• Advanced Planning Environment:
  Work with statistical forecasting, SIOP / IBP, ERP systems, BI tools, and dedicated demand planning platforms
• Continuous Improvement:
  Help improve forecasting models, planning systems, data quality, KPIs, and planning processes
• Career Development:
  Build expertise across demand planning, inventory optimization, commercial planning, NPI, and integrated business planning
• Compensation:
  Salary range not provided
• Benefits:
  Benefits package not provided

• Develop and maintain rolling statistical baseline forecasts using historical sales, seasonality, trends, and causal factors
• Apply forecasting methodologies including moving averages, exponential smoothing, regression, and other statistical models
• Continuously evaluate forecasting parameters to improve forecast accuracy and reduce bias
• Maintain forecasts at the SKU, product family, and customer ship-to level
• Manage short-, mid-, and long-range demand forecasts
• Incorporate POS data, market indicators, economic data, and other external demand signals where available

• Lead the demand review portion of the monthly SIOP / IBP cycle
• Prepare forecast packages and facilitate demand review meetings
• Present demand plans, variance analysis, assumptions, and key findings to senior leadership
• Align commercial forecasts with statistical baseline forecasts
• Challenge and document commercial forecasting assumptions
• Translate demand plans into accurate and timely supply planning inputs
• Maintain SIOP / IBP calendars, templates, and process documentation

• Own forecast accuracy metrics including MAPE at the SKU, family, and total business level
• Conduct monthly forecast accuracy reviews
• Perform root-cause analysis on significant forecast misses
• Monitor over-forecasting and under-forecasting trends
• Develop corrective actions to improve forecast performance
• Create and publish demand planning KPI scorecards
• Benchmark forecasting performance and establish improvement targets

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Key Account Management to incorporate customer and market intelligence
• Incorporate promotional plans, distribution gains, pricing activity, and customer-level insights into forecasts
• Validate commercial forecast adjustments against historical performance and statistical trends
• Model expected demand associated with promotions, pricing changes, and merchandising programs
• Serve as a demand planning advisor to commercial stakeholders

• Develop launch forecasts for new product introductions
• Quantify launch risks and forecast uncertainty
• Coordinate product phase-in and phase-out planning
• Partner with PMO…