Senior Demand Planning Manager
About the role
About Our Client: The organization specializes in global skincare, offering science-backed products that empower individuals to define beauty on their own terms. Operating across North America, Australia/New Zealand, Europe, and the broader APAC region, it addresses challenges in transparency, innovation, and community within the skincare industry by fostering trust, boldness, kindness, and connection.
About the Opportunity: The Senior Demand Planning Manager leads a global team responsible for transforming demand planning from fragmented, regional activities into a unified, disciplined global process. This role owns the demand planning step within the sales and operations planning (S&OP) cycle, ensuring consistent forecasting methodologies across multiple international markets. The position contributes by aligning demand plans with category growth strategies and enabling efficient supply chain operations through accurate, collaborative forecasting.
Responsibilities
- Lead global aggregated category demand planning for revenue-generating units
- Implement and scale a consistent forecasting methodology across NAM, APAC, EU, and ANZ regions
- Maintain an 18-month rolling demand horizon with consistent assumptions
- Integrate global category and item-level insights into S&OP meetings
- Conduct monthly demand reviews and lead the demand step in the integrated S&OP process
- Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply teams to build consensus demand plans
- Monitor in-month global pacing to identify revenue risks and opportunities
- Provide in-season analysis on promotions, events, and launches
- Define and track forecast KPIs to drive continuous improvement
- Lead quarterly category hindsight reviews, product lifecycle management, and assortment optimization
- Manage product ranking and core-SKU definitions to support inventory strategy
- Drive new product launch market forecast consolidation in partnership with Product Marketing
- Act as demand planning lead for Oracle Planning Central implementation
- Ensure planning tools efficiently utilize demand plans to support supply planning
- Hire, manage, and develop the global Category Demand Planning team
Requirements
- Strong analytical skills to synthesize demand signals across systems and markets
- Excellent cross-functional communication and influencing abilities
- Proven leadership experience in hiring, coaching, and developing planning teams
- Deep knowledge of S&OP/IBP process design and consensus-driven planning
- Ability to document clear forecasting standards and work instructions
- Comfortable operating in a transforming business environment
Benefits
- Generous paid time off, including time off to volunteer
- Learning and development resources for personal and professional growth
- Wellness benefits such as meditation app memberships, product discounts, and free product samples
- Dog-friendly office environment
Schedule
Most roles are fully remote; for hybrid or onsite roles, office located in Seattle’s International District