Demand Planner

Summary Description

The Demand Planner is the owner of the demand collaboration process, responsible for driving cross-functional alignment to ensure demand plans are accurate and supported by clearly documented assumptions. This role serves as the central facilitator between Sales, Brand, and Finance and is accountable for facilitating business decisions, improving forecast quality, identifying business risks and opportunities, driving accountability across stakeholders, and ensuring the organization operates from one aligned view of demand.

What will your day look like?

• Forecasting and Demand Planning: Develop and maintain customer, product line, and SKU-level demand forecasts. Incorporate promotional plans, product launches, customer commitments, and historical trends into forecast assumptions. Continuously improve forecast models and planning processes. Utilize forecasting systems, ERP systems, and business intelligence tools to support forecast development.
• Demand Consensus Process Leadership: Facilitate monthly demand collaboration meetings with Sales, Brand, and Finance to drive alignment on a single demand plan. Prepare and distribute pre-read materials highlighting key forecast changes, risks, opportunities, and required decisions. Document decisions, action items, and assumptions arising from demand collaboration meetings.
• Business Analytics and Insights: Analyze forecast accuracy, forecast bias, and demand performance trends and recommend actions. Conduct root cause analysis on forecast misses and significant month-over-month forecast changes. Quantify impacts of major customer, product line, promotional, and inventory-related changes. Prepare channel, customer, product line, and SKU-level analysis to support business decisions. Develop reports, dashboards, and presentations using Excel, Power BI, and forecasting tools. Highlight gaps versus Budget, Latest Estimate, and Prior Year and recommend mitigation plans to address gaps.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales and Marketing to understand customer trends, promotions, and business opportunities. Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with Supply Planning. Work with Finance to understand budget assumptions and forecast variances. Influence stakeholders using fact-based analysis and business insights. Build strong working relationships across all functional areas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• IBF or APICS Certification a plus.
• 3–5+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain, inventory management, or related field.
• Experienced working with ERP system (preferably Oracle).
• Advanced Microsoft Excel User.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working within S&OP or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) environments.
• Experience managing large datasets and developing business insights.
• Must possess excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with Excel and other analytical tools including Microsoft PowerBI to collect, validate, and pull strategic information from our data.
• Must demonstrate good judgment.
• Must be able to work independently and demonstrate initiative.

Company Values

• Must adhere to The Gorilla Glue Company’s Core Values that ensure everyone works together to exceed expectations.
• Have fun, be passionate and show it!
• Act with integrity and respect in all relationships.
• Communicate openly and appreciate the effort of others.
• Embrace knowledge, growth, and change.
• Strive for excellence in what we do every day!