Job Description
Pay rate: $55/hr
Title: Demand Planner
Location: Englewood, NJ
Duration: 12 months
The Associate Demand Planning Manager supporting the development of a 12–18 month rolling sales forecast for the Ice Cream portfolio, covering 8 brands and approximately 350 unique SKUs, totaling ***billion in annual net sales. This role acts as the Supply Chain Business Partner across cross-functional teams, supporting the monthly S&OP cycle to build a realistic, input-led forecast and identify risks and opportunities.
A key focus is on communicating volume changes and drivers across the end-to-end supply chain, while leveraging machine learning, implementation of AI agents on demand analytics, and driving simplification and continuous improvement in forecasting processes and tools.
Key Responsibilities
Forecast Development & Management
- Lead creation of a bottoms-up forecast using business insights and machine learning inputs.
- Translate market and promotional insights into demand drivers for auto-forecast modelling.
- Ensure forecast volumes are aligned with financial projections and submitted on time.
S&OP Leadership
- Facilitate Activity and Demand Review discussions with deep market understanding.
- Drive forecast quality improvements through regular performance reviews with Demand Analysts, Brand, and Customer Strategy teams.
- Provide innovation forecasts to project teams and ensure data-driven planning for new products.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with Brand, Customer Strategy, and Finance to deliver input-led forecasts across all horizons.
- Ensure coverage of non-forecastable segments, innovations, and local brand-building activities.
Performance Measures
- Forecast Accuracy, Bias, and VVD: Accountable for improving key forecast metrics.
- Waste Reduction: Targeting a 15% year-over-year reduction in business waste losses.
- Forecast Transparency: Ability to fully explain forecast composition (volume & value) and associated risks/opportunities during Activity and Demand Reviews.
After candidates are filtered to come up with a short list, client team will select who will pass to first round. After that round, filter final candidates to pass to a final second round on site.
Hybrid role
Two days on site (Typically Tuesday and Wednesday). Flexible days. On Tuesday, company offers free lunch.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Englewood Cliffs, NJ |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $1 |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.lancesoft.com/ |
About Company
We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
- Brand Strategyunmatched
- Consumer Brandingunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Demand Forecasting/Planningunmatched
- Financial Projectionsunmatched
- Financial Strategyunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Improvement Metricsunmatched
- Machine Learningunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Performance Reviewsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Planningunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Sales & Operations Process (S&OP)unmatched
- Sales Forecastingunmatched
- Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)unmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
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