Demand Planner Jobs in Madison, WI (NOW HIRING)

At Emmi Roth, we're passionate about creating exceptional cheeses. As a leader in the specialty cheese industry, we blend traditional craftsmanship with innovation. Our commitment to local sourcing and quality makes us a trusted brand in the food industry.

Joining Emmi Roth means becoming part of a team that values creativity, collaboration, and a shared dedication to excellence. You'll have the opportunity to work with some of the finest cheeses in the world while contributing to a company that prides itself on both heritage and progress. If you're passionate about food, craftsmanship, and making an impact, we'd love for you to be a part of our journey!

Job Summary
The role converts POS and syndicated data, retailer replenishment patterns, promotions, seasonality, customer plans, and product lifecycle events into a reliable, explainable, and actionable demand signal that supports service, inventory, capacity, and business decision-making.

This is an individual-contributor role with functional leadership responsibility and no direct reports. The position leads the Retail Demand Review, challenges assumptions with data and commercial insight, drives forecast discipline and influences cross-functional stakeholders toward one aligned consensus plan.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Own the Retail consensus demand plan at the customer, item, and channel levels, integrating statistical baseline, promotional, seasonal, and new-item demand.
Own and maintain the Retail demand plan in ADD*ONE, ensuring timely and accurate updates to statistical baselines, promotional inputs, forecast overrides, customer/item assumptions, and product lifecycle events in alignment with the IBP calendar.
Build, size, and validate promotional forecasts, including event lift, cannibalization, pantry-loading, post-promotion dips, and recurring customer programs.
Lead the monthly Retail Demand Review within the IBP cycle, ensuring clear assumptions, forecast changes, risks, opportunities, decisions, and follow-up actions.
Leverage POS, syndicated, retailer replenishment, account-level, and customer planning data to improve forecast quality and identify emerging demand signals.
Lead demand planning for new product launches, customer listings, category resets, transitions, and discontinuations.
Partner with Sales, Category Management, Marketing, and Customer Service to validate commercial assumptions, promotional plans, customer activity, and large-account forecasts.
Partner with Supply Planning and Finance to translate demand changes into clear service, inventory, capacity, and business implications, and ensure an effective handoff into Supply Review.
Ensure the consensus demand plan, assumptions, risks, opportunities, major forecast changes, and required mitigation actions are clearly communicated and actionable across the broader IBP process.
Measure and improve forecast accuracy, bias, and forecast value-add, with particular focus on promoted items, high-velocity items, and large retail accounts.
Perform root-cause analysis on forecast misses and recurring planning gaps, and drive corrective actions across data, assumptions, tools, and processes.
Provide functional leadership by challenging unsupported forecast overrides and commercial assumptions with data, business logic, and sound planning judgment, while driving disciplined use of ADD*ONE as the primary demand planning tool.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field; MBA, ASCM/APICS, or IBF certification preferred.
7+ years of experience in Retail or CPG demand planning, S&OP/IBP, or supply chain planning.
Proven experience leading or facilitating a Retail Demand Review, consensus planning, or cross-functional forecasting process.
Demonstrated expertise in promotional forecasting, including baseline separation, event lift, cannibalization, and post-promotion demand patterns.
Strong experience using POS, syndicated, retailer replenishment, and account-level data to build and improve customer/item forecasts.
Strong analytical, statistical forecasting, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills, with solid knowledge of forecast accuracy, bias, and demand planning KPIs.
Proficiency with demand planning systems, ERP platforms, reporting tools, and advanced Excel or data analytics tools.
Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, challenge assumptions constructively, and communicate clear, data-driven business recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications
Experience in CPG, food and beverage, consumer products, or other complex retail environments.
Experience supporting grocery, mass, club, specialty, or e-commerce retail customers.
Familiarity with Joint Business Planning, CPFR, trade promotion management, demand sensing, or scenario planning.
Experience improving IBP maturity, forecast governance, data quality, or planning process discipline.

Benefits
Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
Basic Life Insurance
Voluntary Life Insurance
Flexible spending accounts & Health Savings Accounts
401k Retirement Plan
Paid Holidays
Paid Vacation
Employee Assistance Program
Short term/Long term disability
Volunteer time off (VTO)
Tuition Reimbursement
Pet insurance