Summary Description
The Demand Planner is the owner of the demand collaboration process, responsible for driving cross-functional alignment to ensure demand plans are accurate and supported by clearly documented assumptions. This role serves as the central facilitator between Sales, Brand, and Finance and is accountable for facilitating business decisions, improving forecast quality, identifying business risks and opportunities, driving accountability across stakeholders, and ensuring the organization operates from one aligned view of demand.
What will your day look like?
- Forecasting and Demand Planning:
- Develop and maintain customer, product line, and SKU-level demand forecasts.
- Incorporate promotional plans, product launches, customer commitments, and historical trends into forecast assumptions.
- Continuously improve forecast models and planning processes.
- Utilize forecasting systems, ERP systems, and business intelligence tools to support forecast development.
- Demand Consensus Process Leadership
- Facilitate monthly demand collaboration meetings with Sales, Brand, and Finance to drive alignment on a single demand plan.
- Prepare and distribute pre-read materials highlighting key forecast changes, risks, opportunities, and required decisions.
- Document decisions, action items, and assumptions arising from demand collaboration meetings.
- Business Analytics and Insights
- Analyze forecast accuracy, forecast bias, and demand performance trends and recommend actions.
- Conduct root cause analysis on forecast misses and significant month-over-month forecast changes.
- Quantify impacts of major customer, product line, promotional, and inventory-related changes.
- Prepare channel, customer, product line, and SKU-level analysis to support business decisions.
- Develop reports, dashboards, and presentations using Excel, Power BI, and forecasting tools.
- Highlight gaps versus Budget, Latest Estimate, and Prior Year and recommend mitigation plans to address gaps.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Sales and Marketing to understand customer trends, promotions, and business opportunities.
- Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with Supply Planning.
- Work with Finance to understand budget assumptions and forecast variances.
- Influence stakeholders using fact-based analysis and business insights.
- Build strong working relationships across all functional areas.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- IBF or APICS Certification a plus
- 3–5+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain, inventory management, or related field.
- Experienced working with ERP system (preferably Oracle)
- Advanced Microsoft Excel User
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience working within S&OP or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) environments
- Experience managing large datasets and developing business insights.
- Must possess excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work with Excel and other analytical tools including Microsoft PowerBI to collect, validate, and pull strategic information from our data.
- Demonstrate good judgment.
- Must be able to work independently and demonstrate initiative.
Company Values:
Must adhere to The Gorilla Glue Company’s Core Values that ensure everyone works together to exceed expectations.
Have fun, be passionate and show it!
Act with integrity and respect in all relationships.
Communicate openly and appreciate the effort of others.
Embrace knowledge, growth, and change.
Strive for excellence in what we do every day!
Are you ready to join one of Cincinnati’s Top Workplaces? Our employees love working here because of our environment, which is driven by our company mission and core values. If you have the right qualifications and thrive in a fun and fast-paced environment, we have a great opportunity for you to grow with us!
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 3-5+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain, inventory management, or related field
- Experience working with ERP systems (preferably Oracle)
- Advanced Microsoft Excel user
- Experience with Microsoft Power BI or other analytical/forecasting tools
- Experience working within S&OP or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) environments
- Experience managing large datasets and developing business insights
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving capabilities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate initiative
- IBF or APICS certification
What We Do
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, The Gorilla Glue Company is a family owned, leading manufacturer of adhesives, moisturizers and tools that are known for high quality. The company manages the Gorilla Glue®, Gorilla Tape®, O'Keeffe's® and Lutz Tool® Brands. With over 700 employees, the company has seen much success and growth and has been recognized as one of the top places to work by the Cincinnati Enquirer over the last 11 years. This growth reiterates our need to continue to bring in the best people to help run and grow the business. The Gorilla Glue® and Gorilla Tape® brands are leaders in adhesive solutions for DIYers, woodworkers and professionals. The company revamped the retail adhesive landscape with its 1999 introduction of the wildly popular Gorilla Glue, a unique, all-purpose adhesive with an amazing ability to bond almost any material including wood, ceramic, stone, metal and more. On a mission to make products that deliver impressive results, the company has since expanded its offerings to include Gorilla Tape®, Gorilla™ Super Glue Impact-Tough® Formula, Gorilla™ Wood Glue, and Gorilla™ Epoxy, further solidifying the brand’s reputation as the “go-to” product line FOR THE TOUGHEST JOBS ON PLANET EARTH®. O'Keeffe's Company® manufactures and sells Working Hands® and Healthy Feet hand and foot creams to consumers across the USA and Canada. Developed more than 25 years ago by a pharmacist, these creams are targeted to people with severely dry, cracked hands and feet. They are sold in home center and hardware stores, drug, mass and grocery stores. Gorilla Glue Company products are proudly Made in the U.S.A.
