Sr. Demand Planner
Job Location:
Oak Brook, IL - USA
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Job Summary
Employee Type:
Full timeLocation:
IL Oak BrookJob Type:
Supply Chain PlanningJob Posting Title:
Sr. Demand PlannerAbout Us:
TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers directly impacting our mission to make high quality affordable food for our customers communities and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.
Named one of Americas Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to Engage and Delight One Customer at a Time. Guided by our valuesOwn It Commit to Excellence Be Agile Speak Up and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity accountability and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change prioritize continuous learning and foster collaboration transparency and healthy debate. Together we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.
What You Gain:
Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period youre eligible from your first day!
401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll.
Comprehensive paid time off opportunities including immediate access to four weeks of vacation five sick days parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays).
Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth plus paid training tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform DevelopU with more than 10000 free courses to support you along the way.
An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups.
Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.
Job Description:
About the Role:
The Senior Demand Planner is a highly experienced forecasting and planning professional responsible for developing maintaining and continuously improving base statistical or machine learning forecasts and consensus demand plans across assigned categories. This role serves as a subject matter expert for demand planning processes and systems provides leadership in cross-category consolidation and enterprise analysis and supports special projects and capability development.
The Senior Demand Planner partners closely with Sales Category Management Finance Supply Planning and Operations to communicate forecast drivers assumptions risks and opportunities while advancing planning maturity governance and analytical capability across the organization.
Youll add value to this role through the following but not limited to:
- Develop own and continuously improve high-quality demand forecasts using historical sales shipment depletion and consumption data.
- Analyze forecast accuracy bias value-add volatility and stability across categories; identify root causes and lead corrective actions.
- Improve forecasting models assumptions and processes to strengthen forecast quality and business confidence.
- Manage complex demand forecasting unit structures and lifecycle events including new product introductions phase-ins and phase-outs based on enterprise risk and value.
- Lead and influence Integrated Business Planning demand consensus discussions for assigned categories.
- Perform cross-category and portfolio-level consolidation to identify aggregate demand trends trade-offs risks and opportunities.
- Provide forward-looking analysis and recommendations to support enterprise decision-making and scenario planning.
- Translate commercial strategies promotions market dynamics and external data into quantified demand impacts.
- Conduct benchmarking and comparative analysis to improve forecast quality and planning effectiveness.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for demand planning processes tools and data including enterprise planning and reporting systems.
- Partner with Planning COE IT and Analytics teams to support enhancements adoption process documentation and governance.
- Support onboarding and training of Demand Planners through hands-on coaching mentoring playbooks and knowledge-sharing forums.
- Lead special projects and transformation initiatives related to forecasting methods process redesign analytics enhancements and planning capability.
- Represent Demand Planning in cross-functional initiatives and ensure planning implications are addressed.
- Influence senior stakeholders through clear communication of drivers constraints trade-offs and data-driven demand planning recommendations.
Important Details:
- This is a full-time hybrid role based in Oak Brook Illinois.
- The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $97500.00 - $146300.00 USD annually. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employees position within the salary range will be based on several factors including but not limited to specific competencies relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills seniority geographic location performance shift travel requirements sales or revenue-based metrics and business or organizational needs. For certain roles the successful candidate may be eligible for annual discretionary merit compensation award bonus and equity pay.
Youll fit right in if you have:
- Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Business Analytics or a related field or equivalent experience is required.
- 58 years of experience in demand planning forecasting or supply chain analytics is required.
- Strong analytical statistical and problem-solving skills are required.
- Strong communication stakeholder management and cross-functional influence capabilities are required.
- Advanced proficiency in planning systems is required; experience with Blue Yonder o9 or Kinaxis is preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required.
- IBP / S&OP experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience in FMCG food and beverage or consumer products is preferred.
- Experience coaching mentoring or supporting capability development for planning teams is preferred.
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At TreeHouse Foods we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us Engage and Delight One Customer at a Time.TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race color national origin age sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact
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