Demand Planner

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

IL Oak Brook

Job Type:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Posting Title:

Demand Planner

About 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 America’s 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 values—Own 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 – you’re 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 10,000 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 Demand Planner develops, maintains, and improves base statistical or machine learning forecasts and consensus demand plans in partnership with Sales, Category Management, Finance, Supply Planning, and Operations. This role serves as a business storyteller by clearly explaining forecast inputs, changes, risks, opportunities, and how the demand plan supports business objectives. The position also supports consistent forecasting practices, governance, and planning maturity across the organization.

You’ll add value to this role through the following, but not limited to:

• Develop and maintain demand forecasts using sales, shipment, depletion, and consumption data.

• Analyze forecast accuracy, bias, value-add, volatility, and stability to identify trends, gaps, and improvement opportunities.

• Diagnose forecast errors, explain key variances, and implement corrective actions to improve forecast quality.

• Manage demand forecasting units, lifecycle events, new product introductions, phase-ins, phase-outs, and forecast exceptions.

• Challenge low-probability forecast assumptions using data and analytics to support accurate and unbiased demand plans.

• Use exception-based planning approaches to prioritize high-impact items and focus analysis where it creates the most value.

• Lead or facilitate IBP demand consensus discussions with Sales, Category, Finance, and Supply Chain partners.

• Document assumptions, decisions, risks, opportunities, and material volume or revenue impacts supporting the consensus plan.

• Assess how planning assumptions impact supply execution and escalate potential risks or changes to Supply Planning.

• Incorporate promotions, events, launches, discontinuations, market trends, customer demand signals, and ordering behavior into forecast assumptions.

• Use available market intelligence and external data sources, such as Circana or Nielsen, to inform forecast recommendations.

• Translate commercial strategies into quantified demand impacts and support scenario planning for risks and opportunities.

• Use enterprise planning, reporting, and analysis tools to generate forecasts, communicate insights, and identify data quality issues.

• Build strong cross-functional relationships and translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders.

• Enable high-quality S&OP / IBP decisions through clear, data-driven storytelling and well-structured demand plans.

Important Details:

• This is a full-time hybrid role based in Oak Brook, Illinois.
• The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $76,200.00 - $114,200.00 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 employee’s 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.

You’ll fit right in if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent experience, is required.

• 2–4+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, analytics, or market analysis is required.

• Strong analytical, statistical, and problem-solving skills are required.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities are required.

• Experience with advanced 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 or consumer products is preferred.

• Exposure to cross-functional supply chain or financial planning processes is preferred.

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Click on the “Apply” button or go directly to www.treehousefoods.com/careers to let us know you’re ready to join our team!

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 [email protected]

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