Demand Planner - OLIPOP

About OLIPOP

At OLIPOP, we’re on a mission to positively impact consumer health at scale through a new kind of soda: one that’s delicious, refreshing, and actually good for you. With 6 to 9 grams of fiber and 2 to 5 grams of sugar, we deliver science-backed benefits without sacrificing classic taste.

The Role

As a Demand Planner, you own the demand plan for an assigned portfolio of customers and SKUs, and the assumptions behind it. You will build and publish the monthly forecast in Anaplan, quantify risk and opportunity ahead of the cycle, and bring your portfolio and reasoning into consensus and S&OP.

This role sits inside an active transition from Excel-based planning to Anaplan. You will plan in the system, not around it, and help shape how the demand review cycle runs as functionality comes online.

Responsibilities

Forecast Ownership

• Build, validate, and publish the monthly demand forecast in Anaplan for an assigned portfolio of customers and SKUs (baseline, promotional lift, new item ramp, and phase-out).
• Review the statistical baseline in Anaplan each cycle, apply overrides with documented reasoning, and maintain override discipline.
• Build and compare scenario versions in Anaplan for risk, opportunity, promotional plans, supply constraints, and pricing changes.
• Hold forecast accuracy and bias to target, reviewing results every cycle with root-cause analysis on misses.
• Build launch forecasts for new items using historical analogs, planned marketing support, and account-level merchandising plans.

Business Partnership

• Represent your portfolio in consensus and S&OP, presenting forecast changes, drivers, and risks/opportunities to Sales, Revenue Growth Management, and Finance.
• Collect and challenge assumptions covering promotional activity, launches, discontinuations, distribution changes, pricing, and customer plans.
• Quantify and communicate risk and opportunity early to enable proactive business decisions.
• Partner with Supply Planning on inventory position, weeks of supply, fill rate risk, and allocation decisions.
• Act as the company expert on retailer and channel trends using internal, POS, and syndicated data.
• Support annual operating plans and long-range planning cycles with portfolio-level demand inputs and scenario analysis.

Systems and Process

• Participate in the Anaplan implementation for your portfolio, including UAT, data validation, and migration off Excel.
• Partner with the Demand Planning Analyst on master data accuracy, reporting needs, and analysis.
• Adhere to the demand review calendar and forecast lock dates.
• Identify slow, manual, or unreliable processes and help improve them.

Qualifications

Required

• Planning Platform: Proficiency in Anaplan
• ERP System: Experience with NetSuite for managing order, shipment, and inventory history
• Data Analysis: Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, XLOOKUP/INDEX/MATCH, large data sets)
• Presentation Skills: PowerPoint proficiency for driving leadership consensus

Preferred

• Syndicated & POS Data: NielsenIQ, Circana, SPINS, Retail Link, or Vendor Central
• BI Tools: Sigma, Power BI, or Tableau
• Experience: 5-8 years of professional supply chain experience, with 1-2 years at the demand planner or analyst level in CPG, beverage, or manufacturing.