Director of US Demand Planning

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Chicago, IL
In-Office
224K-278K Annually
Senior level
Appliances • Manufacturing
The Role
Lead demand planning for Dyson US, partnering with sales, supply chain, and marketing teams. Manage a team, drive forecasting, and improve processes.
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About Us: 

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We’re growing fast and our ambition is huge – more categories, more locations and more people. Dyson launched in the US in 2002, and since then operations have grown exponentially. Our US headquarters is based in Chicago's Fulton Market neighborhood. We also have employees working in field sales, our service centers, and in our growing number of Dyson Demo Stores across the country.

 

We're committed to our campus culture and want to have people collaborating, developing, and learning from each other. By having everyone on campus together, we have been able to nurture a fantastic social and dynamic environment.  

 

About the Role 

Own and drive the end-to-end demand planning strategy for Dyson US, serving as the critical link between US Commercial leadership, Asia-based Supply Chain, and Americas Executive Teams. Set the vision for demand planning excellence and embed world-class processes to deliver against Dyson’s “Double Dyson” growth ambition. Inspire, coach, and lead a high-performing team of demand planning leaders and professionals. Steer and continuously improve the US monthly IBP (Integrated Business Planning) process for A/B grade finished goods and accessories, ensuring optimal alignment with Group strategy. 

 

Main Accountabilities and Key Responsibilities 

Executive Cross-Functional Leadership 

  • Forge strategic partnerships with Commercial, Marketing, Group Supply Chain, and regional leadership to shape unified, customer-centric demand plans—aligned tightly to market intelligence, commercial targets, and inventory optimisation. 

  • Serve as the senior chair for US supply planning and IBP meetings, shaping executive-level decision-making within Dyson US and with Group. 

Strategic Demand Planning 

  • Oversee development and sign-off of demand and inventory targets at total market, customer, and product category levels. 

  • Leverage data-driven analytics, advanced forecasting tools, and sophisticated modelling to inform short- and long-term plans. 

  • Set the vision for demand planning deliverables and drive best-in-class ways of working, championing process innovation and standardisation. 

Business Performance and Continuous Improvement 

  • Own end-to-end S&OP/IBP cadence for Dyson US market, continuously identifying and implementing improvements. 

  • Anticipate and mitigate risks—activating response options with agility in partnership with senior leadership. 

  • Utilise advanced performance analytics to identify gaps and drive process improvements that enhance forecast accuracy and inventory health. 

Commercial Planning and New Product Introduction 

  • Direct strategic promotional alignment and assortment planning to maximise commercial impact across channels. 

  • Drive scenario planning and long-range forecasting to support annual budgets and multi-year business plans. 

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication 

  • Act as primary interface for all critical demand changes to US and global ELT, ensuring leadership is informed and enabled to take action. 

  • Build executive-level consensus for all demand and supply plans, managing cross-functional alignment and rapid escalation of issues. 

Leadership and Team Development 

  • Inspire, develop, and mentor a team of demand planning managers and senior analysts. 

  • Drive a high-performance, results-oriented culture—setting clear expectations, providing coaching, and enabling growth. 

Quality and Compliance 

  • Oversee product pipeline integrity, including replenishment strategies, NPD timelines, and compliance checks in partnership with Quality and Audit. 

 

About You 
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or relevant advanced degree highly preferred (Supply Chain, Business, or related field). 

  • 12+ years of progressive experience in demand planning, forecasting, or supply chain strategy, with at least 5 years leading multi-layered teams in large-scale, fast-paced CPG or consumer technology environments. 

  • Strong executive presence and proven ability to influence at C-suite and Group level. 

  • Demonstrated expertise in S&OP/IBP leadership, scenario planning, and advanced forecasting systems (SAP, Anaplan, Kinaxis, or equivalent). 

  • Transformational leader with a track record of building high-performing, engaged teams and driving process innovation. 

  • Deep analytical capability; expert in business modelling, commercial math, and problem-solving. 

  • Exceptional communicator—able to synthesise complex data and strategic insights for broad and senior audiences. 

  • Demonstrated bias for action, agility, and ownership. 

  • Unwavering integrity, professionalism, and commitment to Dyson’s pioneering culture. 

Salary: $223,600-$278,400 annually + bonus opportunity

 

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

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The Company
Chicago, Illinois
13,356 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.

Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education.

Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world.

The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas

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