Demand Planning Lead, Nefab Packaging - Americas

About the role

Demand Planning Lead Nefab Group is on a growth journey and we are dependent on high-performance people to succeed. Our Supply Chain and S&OP organization is vital for us to deliver accurate, customer-driven demand planning solutions to our strategic accounts. We are now looking for a Demand Planning Lead to join our team at Nefab Packaging - Americas.

Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly demand consensus process for high-growth strategic customers, gathering input from Sales Directors, Account Managers and customer-facing engineering teams.
• Build collaborative planning relationships with customer supply chain counterparts.
• Develop and maintain statistical forecasts and demand models.
• Lead the monthly S&OP Demand Review, presenting variance analyses, growth assumptions and forecast accuracy to leadership.
• Partner with Commercial and Product Management on new program launches, engineering design changes and end-of-life transitions.
• Contribute to Nefab's growth by turning complex customer projections into an accurate, unconstrained demand signal that supports seamless scaling and reduces supply risk.
• Act as the primary demand liaison between strategic commercial account teams and operational supply chain functions within the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process.
• Work closely with the S&OP Supply Manager to hand off the consolidated key account demand signal and highlight demand surges that affect plant capacity and safety stock.
• Drive continuous improvement of the demand management process using Lean, Six Sigma and Nefab Way methodologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Statistics, Engineering or a related field.
• 4–7 years of progressive experience in demand planning, forecasting or S&OP analysis, preferably managing large key accounts or rapidly growing customer portfolios.
• Experience in industrial manufacturing, custom packaging or multi-site distribution environments.
• Proven experience in statistical forecasting and collaborative account planning in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Deep understanding of high-growth, high-volatility key account customer behavior and demand scaling.
• Strong analytical, statistical and quantitative skills, with the ability to turn raw customer projections and sales intelligence into structured forecasts.
• Advanced experience with ERP/MRP planning systems, demand planning software and data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, advanced Excel).
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills, with the ability to challenge commercial assumptions constructively.
• Demonstrated success building consensus demand plans across matrixed commercial, engineering and operational structures.
• Results-oriented, with a strong sense of urgency and a collaborative mindset focused on key account satisfaction and cross-functional alignment.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 10% of the time.

Preferred employee location is the DFW Metropolitan area; the role is remote/hybrid with up to 10% domestic and international travel.