Demand Planning Specialist Jobs
Demand Planning Specialist jobs are open across consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and logistics, from entry-level analyst to senior and manager, with specializations in statistical forecasting, inventory optimization, and S&OP process management. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Summary
The Demand Planning Manager, Global McDonald's provides enterprise ownership of the McDonald's demand-planning capability within Simplot Global Food's Integrated Business Planning (IBP) organization. This leader is accountable for one globally coordinated planning model, one global demand signal, aligned regional assumptions, and coordinated execution.
The role leads through influence across regions, functions, and external partners, often without direct authority. Working with regional demand planners and Demand Planning Analysts, this leader establishes planning governance, aligns assumptions and decision rights, drives forecast quality and scenario planning, and converts customer and market intelligence into decision-ready insights. The role requires a holistic understanding of the end-to-end supply chain and the ability to connect demand decisions to sourcing, manufacturing, capacity, inventory, logistics, service, and financial outcomes.
Customer partnership is an important enabler of stronger planning and enterprise decisions. The Manager builds effective relationships with McDonald's Corporation, HAVI, Mitsui, local markets, and internal teams while keeping global planning ownership as the role's primary purpose.
Key Responsibilities
Global Demand Signal & Planning Governance
- Own the end-to-end global McDonald's demand-planning capability and the integrity of a single, coordinated global demand signal.
- Establish governance for planning standards, calendars, assumptions, decision rights, escalation paths, and performance reviews.
- Integrate regional forecasts and market intelligence into a transparent global view; challenge material changes, risks, opportunities, and scenarios.
- Improve forecast quality, demand-signal reliability, planning discipline, and adoption of common processes and tools.
Leadership, Influence & Strategic Initiatives
- Create alignment and accountability across regional planners, functions, and external partners without relying on direct authority.
- Clarify global and regional roles, handoffs, and decision rights while preserving local market insight and accountability for execution.
- Lead global and regional planning forums to reconcile assumptions, resolve gaps, surface tradeoffs, and secure timely decisions.
- Lead, coach, and develop Demand Planning Analysts and strengthen capability across the broader McDonald's planning network.
- Promote constructive challenges, fact-based decision-making, transparency, accountability, and enterprise thinking.
- Lead demand-related contingency planning and cross-functional initiatives involving network strategy, Line of Supply, data, processes, planning tools, RFPs, and business opportunities.
- Ensure major customer, network, and operational changes are incorporated into the global demand signal and regional planning processes.
IBP, Scenario Planning & Decision Support
- Lead the McDonald's Pre-Demand Management Review and represent the global McDonald's demand perspective within IBP.
- Translate assumptions, risks, opportunities, and scenarios into clear recommendations and decision-ready insights.
- Connect demand decisions to sourcing, manufacturing, capacity, inventory, logistics, customer service, cost, and financial performance.
- Identify root causes of recurring gaps, and lead corrective actions that improve business outcomes.
- Establish measurable targets for forecast accuracy and bias, demand-signal reliability, and assumption quality; translate improvements into stronger service, inventory, capacity, operational, and financial outcomes.
Customer Intelligence & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Use engagement with McDonald's, HAVI, Mitsui, local markets, and internal commercial teams to improve the quality and timeliness of planning inputs.
- Translate customer strategy, promotions, market changes, and growth opportunities into aligned assumptions and enterprise planning actions.
- Communicate the demand outlook, risks, opportunities, scenarios, and required decisions clearly across organizational levels.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Project Management to drive coordinated decisions.
Typical Education
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Finance, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field.
Relevant Experience
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Finance, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Demand Planning, S&OP, IBP, or supply-chain planning, including forecast governance and cross-functional decision support.
- Demonstrated expertise in demand planning, forecast performance, assumption governance, scenario planning, and enterprise planning processes.
- Broad end-to-end supply-chain and industry knowledge, with the ability to connect demand decisions to sourcing, manufacturing, capacity, inventory, logistics, service, and financial outcomes.
- Proven ability to lead through influence, align decentralized teams, and establish accountability across complex, matrixed organizations.
- Strong leadership, facilitation, analytical, communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
- Working knowledge of statistical forecasting principles, forecast accuracy and bias management, and enterprise planning and analytics capabilities, with sufficient technical depth to challenge assumptions and govern a global demand signal.
Preferred
- Experience supporting a global strategic customer or leading planning across multiple regions or markets.
- McDonald's, QSR, foodservice, or comparable consumer-driven supply-chain experience; direct McDonald's experience is strongly preferred but not required.
- Experience with advanced forecasting methods, enterprise planning systems, analytics, and large-scale supply-chain transformation.
- Master's degree and/or APICS/ASCM, IBF, or related professional certification.
Job Requisition ID: 27906
Travel Required: Up to 25%
Location(s): Simplot Headquarters - Boise
Country: United States
**The Simplot Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status.
If the Simplot Company decides to offer you this position, such offer will be conditioned on your satisfactory completion of a post-offer criminal background check. For Washington Job Applicants, see the Washington State Attorney General’s Washington Fair Chance Act Guide and RCW 49.94.010 for more information.**
That diversity creates strength, stability, and opportunity. Across our global business, employees can build new skills, explore different career paths, and contribute to meaningful work in a culture where safety is foundational.
Whatever your role, your work at Simplot contributes to something bigger. Join us to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape the future of food and agriculture.
Summary
The Demand Planning Manager, Global McDonald's provides enterprise ownership of the McDonald's demand-planning capability within Simplot Global Food's Integrated Business Planning (IBP) organization. This leader is accountable for one globally coordinated planning model, one global demand signal, aligned regional assumptions, and coordinated execution.
The role leads through influence across regions, functions, and external partners, often without direct authority. Working with regional demand planners and Demand Planning Analysts, this leader establishes planning governance, aligns assumptions and decision rights, drives forecast quality and scenario planning, and converts customer and market intelligence into decision-ready insights. The role requires a holistic understanding of the end-to-end supply chain and the ability to connect demand decisions to sourcing, manufacturing, capacity, inventory, logistics, service, and financial outcomes.
Customer partnership is an important enabler of stronger planning and enterprise decisions. The Manager builds effective relationships with McDonald's Corporation, HAVI, Mitsui, local markets, and internal teams while keeping global planning ownership as the role's primary purpose.
Key Responsibilities
Global Demand Signal & Planning Governance
- Own the end-to-end global McDonald's demand-planning capability and the integrity of a single, coordinated global demand signal.
- Establish governance for planning standards, calendars, assumptions, decision rights, escalation paths, and performance reviews.
- Integrate regional forecasts and market intelligence into a transparent global view; challenge material changes, risks, opportunities, and scenarios.
- Improve forecast quality, demand-signal reliability, planning discipline, and adoption of common processes and tools.
Leadership, Influence & Strategic Initiatives
- Create alignment and accountability across regional planners, functions, and external partners without relying on direct authority.
- Clarify global and regional roles, handoffs, and decision rights while preserving local market insight and accountability for execution.
- Lead global and regional planning forums to reconcile assumptions, resolve gaps, surface tradeoffs, and secure timely decisions.
- Lead, coach, and develop Demand Planning Analysts and strengthen capability across the broader McDonald's planning network.
- Promote constructive challenges, fact-based decision-making, transparency, accountability, and enterprise thinking.
- Lead demand-related contingency planning and cross-functional initiatives involving network strategy, Line of Supply, data, processes, planning tools, RFPs, and business opportunities.
- Ensure major customer, network, and operational changes are incorporated into the global demand signal and regional planning processes.
IBP, Scenario Planning & Decision Support
- Lead the McDonald's Pre-Demand Management Review and represent the global McDonald's demand perspective within IBP.
- Translate assumptions, risks, opportunities, and scenarios into clear recommendations and decision-ready insights.
- Connect demand decisions to sourcing, manufacturing, capacity, inventory, logistics, customer service, cost, and financial performance.
- Identify root causes of recurring gaps, and lead corrective actions that improve business outcomes.
- Establish measurable targets for forecast accuracy and bias, demand-signal reliability, and assumption quality; translate improvements into stronger service, inventory, capacity, operational, and financial outcomes.
Customer Intelligence & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Use engagement with McDonald's, HAVI, Mitsui, local markets, and internal commercial teams to improve the quality and timeliness of planning inputs.
- Translate customer strategy, promotions, market changes, and growth opportunities into aligned assumptions and enterprise planning actions.
- Communicate the demand outlook, risks, opportunities, scenarios, and required decisions clearly across organizational levels.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Project Management to drive coordinated decisions.
Typical Education
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Finance, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field.
Relevant Experience
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Finance, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Demand Planning, S&OP, IBP, or supply-chain planning, including forecast governance and cross-functional decision support.
- Demonstrated expertise in demand planning, forecast performance, assumption governance, scenario planning, and enterprise planning processes.
- Broad end-to-end supply-chain and industry knowledge, with the ability to connect demand decisions to sourcing, manufacturing, capacity, inventory, logistics, service, and financial outcomes.
- Proven ability to lead through influence, align decentralized teams, and establish accountability across complex, matrixed organizations.
- Strong leadership, facilitation, analytical, communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
- Working knowledge of statistical forecasting principles, forecast accuracy and bias management, and enterprise planning and analytics capabilities, with sufficient technical depth to challenge assumptions and govern a global demand signal.
Preferred
- Experience supporting a global strategic customer or leading planning across multiple regions or markets.
- McDonald's, QSR, foodservice, or comparable consumer-driven supply-chain experience; direct McDonald's experience is strongly preferred but not required.
- Experience with advanced forecasting methods, enterprise planning systems, analytics, and large-scale supply-chain transformation.
- Master's degree and/or APICS/ASCM, IBF, or related professional certification.
Job Requisition ID: 27906
Travel Required: Up to 25%
Location(s): Simplot Headquarters - Boise
Country: United States
**The Simplot Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status.
If the Simplot Company decides to offer you this position, such offer will be conditioned on your satisfactory completion of a post-offer criminal background check. For Washington Job Applicants, see the Washington State Attorney General’s Washington Fair Chance Act Guide and RCW 49.94.010 for more information.**
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Distribution & Wholesale
- Technology & Software
- Electronics & Hardware
- Manufacturing
- Retail
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in demand planning specialist jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, or a related field
- Experience with demand planning or forecasting software such as SAP IBP or Blue Yonder
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for data analysis and scenario modeling
- Familiarity with S&OP processes and cross-functional collaboration with sales and operations teams
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret large datasets and identify trends
- APICS CPIM or CSCP certification preferred for mid-level and senior roles
Tips for Your Demand Planning Specialist Job Search
Quantify forecast accuracy on your resume
Hiring managers for demand planning roles want numbers, not narratives. Replace vague descriptions with metrics like forecast bias percentage improvements, inventory reduction outcomes, or service-level gains you contributed to in previous roles.
List your planning software tools explicitly
Many applicant tracking systems screen for specific tools before a human reads your resume. Call out the demand planning and ERP platforms you've used, such as SAP IBP, Oracle Demantra, or Blue Yonder, by exact name in a dedicated skills section.
Target postings that match your data depth
Some roles focus on statistical modeling and require SQL or Python fluency, while others are purely process-oriented. Read each posting carefully for technical requirements before applying so you're not underselling a strength or overstating a gap.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists demand planning specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare S&OP case examples for interviews
Interviewers frequently ask you to walk through a Sales and Operations Planning cycle you managed end to end. Prepare a concrete example that covers data inputs, cross-functional collaboration, exceptions you handled, and the business outcome that followed.
Negotiate by anchoring to scope, not title
Demand planning compensation varies widely based on the number of SKUs managed, geographic scope, and system complexity. When negotiating, tie your ask to the operational scale of the role, not just seniority level, to build a credible case.
Demand Planning Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most demand planning specialists?
The most active employers for demand planning specialists right now are Amazon, Oracle, and L3Harris, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Consumer goods manufacturers and large retailers consistently account for a significant share of posted roles.
How many demand planning specialist jobs are remote?
About 75% of demand planning specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the data-driven nature of the work. Roles focused on statistical forecasting and reporting tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions requiring close coordination with warehouse or production teams are more often on-site.
How do you become a demand planning specialist?
Start with a degree in supply chain management, business, or a quantitative field, then build hands-on experience in a planning, analyst, or operations coordinator role. Learn at least one major demand planning platform through on-the-job use or vendor training. Earning an APICS CPIM certification signals readiness for dedicated demand planning responsibilities and strengthens your candidacy for specialist roles.
Can you get a demand planning specialist job with little experience?
Yes, entry-level demand planning roles exist, and they typically look for candidates who have handled any kind of data analysis, inventory tracking, or supply chain support work, even in an adjacent capacity. Demonstrating proficiency with Excel and familiarity with forecasting concepts from coursework or internships can offset a limited direct history. Applying to companies with structured rotational supply chain programs is a practical starting point.
What does the demand planning specialist interview process look like?
Most demand planning interviews include an initial phone screen focused on your planning tool experience and analytical background, followed by a skills assessment or take-home case involving a dataset you're asked to interpret or forecast. Final rounds typically involve cross-functional stakeholders from sales, finance, or operations who want to understand how you collaborate and communicate forecast assumptions to non-technical audiences.
Where can I find and apply to demand planning specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to demand planning specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level, industry background, and preferred work arrangement, then apply directly to each listing that fits your situation.
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