Demand Planner- Onsite Role In Sacramento

MUST BE LOCATED IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA! MUST HAVE ADVANCED EXCEL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WITH POWER BI! Job Title: Demand Planner Job Description The Demand Planner supports the end-to-end demand planning process within an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework, delivering accurate and actionable forecasts that guide supply chain, commercial, and financial decisions. This role leverages market insights, historical trends, and promotional data to build and maintain rolling demand forecasts, actively participates in monthly demand review cycles, and supports key business initiatives such as new product launches, SKU rationalization, and capacity planning. Working cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, IT, and R&D, the Demand Planner helps optimize inventory, service levels, and operational efficiency while driving continuous improvement in IBP processes, analytics, and forecasting capabilities. Responsibilities Support the end-to-end demand planning process within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework, developing and maintaining a rolling 024 month operational forecast at the product and location level using the IBP Demand module. Analyze multiple demand drivers, including sales plans, syndicated consumption data, distribution changes, shipment history, competitive dynamics, seasonality, and marketing initiatives, to develop an accurate demand plan that reflects true market demand in a CPG or ingredient environment. Perform forecast performance analysis, such as MAPE and bias, to identify trends, measure forecast accuracy, and support continuous improvement efforts in demand planning. Communicate demand insights, risks, and opportunities clearly to cross-functional stakeholders to support informed, data-driven decision-making. Participate in the monthly IBP Pre-Demand Review process to support alignment on a consensus demand signal and ensure clear visibility to underlying assumptions, risks, and opportunities. Support preparation for the IBP Integrated Demand Review in partnership with Demand Planning leadership, ensuring robust and well-documented demand inputs. Partner with Sales and Commercial Planning to evaluate customer performance, promotional effectiveness, trade events, distribution gains and losses, and SKU lifecycle changes, incorporating these insights into the demand plan. Support demand planning activities for key business initiatives, including innovation launches, product transitions, and SKU rationalization, considering pipeline fill, cannibalization, and phase-in/phase-out strategies. Collaborate cross-functionally to support financial forecasting cycles, including the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and periodic Latest Estimates (LEs), ensuring alignment between demand plans, revenue expectations, and financial targets. Assist with IBP system and process improvements, supporting adoption, standardization, and enhancement of demand planning tools, reporting, and forecasting capabilities. Partner with Supply Planning and Operations to translate demand plans into supply requirements, identify potential risks, and support service level and inventory optimization. Participate in cross-functional planning meetings, providing demand insights and supporting alignment across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, IT, and R&D. Support and promote a culture of data-driven decision-making, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the demand planning and IBP processes. Use SAP/ERP systems to manage planning data, inventory information, and replenishment activities, ensuring accuracy and integrity of planning inputs. Work with exports and logistics-related data, including ocean freight, ocean export and import, LTL shipping, and bills of lading (BOL), as they relate to inventory and demand planning. Utilize Excel, including pivot tables and data exports, to perform detailed data analysis, reporting, and data entry in support of demand and inventory planning. Support inventory cont…

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