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Demand Planning Manager
Job Location:
Job Location:
Nashville, TN - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 128600 - 173900
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
1 October 2026 (14 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
29 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
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Job Summary
Amazons technology supply chain supports a complex and rapidly evolving portfolio of infrastructure end-user equipment and technology products across thousands of locations globally. As the business scales accurate and forward-looking demand planning is critical to ensuring supply availability managing inventory investment and delivering predictable outcomes for customers.
We are seeking a Manager Demand Planning to lead the demand planning capability within Supply Chain Planning. This leader will manage a team responsible for developing and continuously improving demand plans across the existing customer business segments while establishing scalable mechanisms that can support new businesses products and fulfillment models.
The successful candidate will build a demand planning organization that combines strong planning fundamentals with data technology and automation. This includes improving forecast quality integrating customer and business signals identifying structural sources of forecast error and partnering with Product Data Analytics and Technology teams to reduce manual planning activity and enable increasingly intelligent forecasting capabilities.
The ideal candidate combines strong supply chain expertise analytical depth customer orientation business judgment and people leadership. They must be comfortable challenging assumptions navigating incomplete or conflicting signals and influencing stakeholders across Supply Chain Finance Technology Operations Procurement and customer organizations.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead coach and develop a team responsible for demand planning across Launch KTLO and Programs.
- Own the end-to-end demand planning mechanism including forecast creation validation consensus performance measurement and continuous improvement.
- Translate customer business historical operational and market signals into credible forward-looking demand plans at the appropriate product geographic and time horizons.
- Establish clear accountability for demand inputs and challenge assumptions overrides and changes that are not supported by measurable business signals.
- Define and improve forecast accuracy bias forecast value-add and other metrics that distinguish true demand variability from process data and system defects.
- Partner with Supply Planning and Enterprise S&OP to surface demand uncertainty quantify risks and support scenario and trade-off decisions.
- Develop segmented planning approaches appropriate for different demand patterns including launches steady-state replenishment and program-driven demand.
- Partner with Product Data Analytics and Technology teams to automate forecast ingestion validation anomaly detection and planner workflows.
- Advance the use of statistical forecasting machine learning and AI to improve forecast quality and reduce dependence on manual reconciliation and judgment.
- Simplify fragmented demand signals and processes with a long-term goal of connecting Planning more directly to customer and business demand signals.
- Build scalable mechanisms that support new products businesses regions and planning paradigms without creating parallel planning processes.
- Communicate demand outlook uncertainty structural risks and recommended actions clearly to senior stakeholders.
A day in the life
In this role you may begin the day reviewing forecast performance and emerging demand changes with your team determining whether movement reflects a true change in customer demand or a defect in the underlying signal.
You may work with customer teams to challenge assumptions behind a forecast partner with Supply Planning to understand the implications of a significant demand shift or support Enterprise S&OP with scenarios where demand uncertainty requires a broader business decision.
You may also spend time with Product or Technology teams improving how demand signals are ingested automating a repetitive planner workflow or defining how machine learning and AI can augment planner judgment.
The role balances near-term planning performance with the longer-term objective of creating a scalable technology-enabled demand planning capability where planners spend less time collecting and reconciling information and more time understanding customers evaluating uncertainty and improving the quality of the plan.
- 5 years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 5 years of team management experience
- 5 years of cross functional project delivery experience
- 5 years of program or project management experience
- 5 years of supply chain experience
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Bachelors degree
- Experience in forecasting budgeting variance analysis and interpreting financial results across multiple business areas or experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving
- Experience managing analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
- Experience managing teams of 3 or more
- Masters degree
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g. SAP Oracle Workday) or experience working with Excel reporting tools and large-scale data mining tools such as Power BI Python SQL or Tableau
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
We are seeking a Manager Demand Planning to lead the demand planning capability within Supply Chain Planning. This leader will manage a team responsible for developing and continuously improving demand plans across the existing customer business segments while establishing scalable mechanisms that can support new businesses products and fulfillment models.
The successful candidate will build a demand planning organization that combines strong planning fundamentals with data technology and automation. This includes improving forecast quality integrating customer and business signals identifying structural sources of forecast error and partnering with Product Data Analytics and Technology teams to reduce manual planning activity and enable increasingly intelligent forecasting capabilities.
The ideal candidate combines strong supply chain expertise analytical depth customer orientation business judgment and people leadership. They must be comfortable challenging assumptions navigating incomplete or conflicting signals and influencing stakeholders across Supply Chain Finance Technology Operations Procurement and customer organizations.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead coach and develop a team responsible for demand planning across Launch KTLO and Programs.
- Own the end-to-end demand planning mechanism including forecast creation validation consensus performance measurement and continuous improvement.
- Translate customer business historical operational and market signals into credible forward-looking demand plans at the appropriate product geographic and time horizons.
- Establish clear accountability for demand inputs and challenge assumptions overrides and changes that are not supported by measurable business signals.
- Define and improve forecast accuracy bias forecast value-add and other metrics that distinguish true demand variability from process data and system defects.
- Partner with Supply Planning and Enterprise S&OP to surface demand uncertainty quantify risks and support scenario and trade-off decisions.
- Develop segmented planning approaches appropriate for different demand patterns including launches steady-state replenishment and program-driven demand.
- Partner with Product Data Analytics and Technology teams to automate forecast ingestion validation anomaly detection and planner workflows.
- Advance the use of statistical forecasting machine learning and AI to improve forecast quality and reduce dependence on manual reconciliation and judgment.
- Simplify fragmented demand signals and processes with a long-term goal of connecting Planning more directly to customer and business demand signals.
- Build scalable mechanisms that support new products businesses regions and planning paradigms without creating parallel planning processes.
- Communicate demand outlook uncertainty structural risks and recommended actions clearly to senior stakeholders.
A day in the life
In this role you may begin the day reviewing forecast performance and emerging demand changes with your team determining whether movement reflects a true change in customer demand or a defect in the underlying signal.
You may work with customer teams to challenge assumptions behind a forecast partner with Supply Planning to understand the implications of a significant demand shift or support Enterprise S&OP with scenarios where demand uncertainty requires a broader business decision.
You may also spend time with Product or Technology teams improving how demand signals are ingested automating a repetitive planner workflow or defining how machine learning and AI can augment planner judgment.
The role balances near-term planning performance with the longer-term objective of creating a scalable technology-enabled demand planning capability where planners spend less time collecting and reconciling information and more time understanding customers evaluating uncertainty and improving the quality of the plan.
- 5 years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 5 years of team management experience
- 5 years of cross functional project delivery experience
- 5 years of program or project management experience
- 5 years of supply chain experience
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Bachelors degree
- Experience in forecasting budgeting variance analysis and interpreting financial results across multiple business areas or experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving
- Experience managing analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
- Experience managing teams of 3 or more
- Masters degree
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g. SAP Oracle Workday) or experience working with Excel reporting tools and large-scale data mining tools such as Power BI Python SQL or Tableau
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TN Nashville - 128600.00 - 173900.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually
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