Demand Planner

Title: Demand Planner                 Location: Kennewick, WA                 Job Requisition ID: Req-271732                 Time Type: Full time                 About Lamb Weston You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.  A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together. If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you. Job Description Summary The Demand Planner develops a forward-looking, insight-driven consensus demand plan that enables better decisions across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Planning, Operations, and Customer Service. The role integrates statistical forecasting, commercial intelligence, customer insights, external market signals, and AI-enabled planning recommendations to identify risks, opportunities, and decision points. The Demand Planner serves as a demand insight leader, scenario evaluator, and cross-functional decision partner. The role owns upstream signal capture, assumption management, and commercial input governance to strengthen the quality and credibility of the consensus demand plan and support service, inventory, capacity, revenue, margin, and financial commitments. Job Description Demand Insight & Consensus Planning Develop and maintain a rolling consensus demand plan using statistical models, customer inputs, commercial assumptions, external signals, and system-generated recommendations. Facilitate cross-functional demand conversations focused on assumptions, risks, opportunities, and decisions needed. Challenge forecast inputs and commercial assumptions using data, trends, and business context to maintain an unbiased enterprise view of demand. Scenario Modeling & Decision Support Build and evaluate demand scenarios for upside, downside, constrained supply, customer shifts, promotions, and market changes. Quantify implications across service, inventory, capacity, revenue, margin, and financial commitments. Translate analysis into clear recommendations, trade-offs, and decision options; escalate material changes through S&OP, S&OE, or Integrated Reconciliation as appropriate. Data, Analytics & Digital Planning Use advanced planning tools, dashboards, AI-enabled forecasts, alerts, analytics, and scenario models to prioritize exceptions and improve decision quality. Apply a trust-but-verify mindset to system recommendations, challenging outputs when assumptions, data, constraints, or logic appear incorrect. Identify opportunities to automate routine planning activities and partner with the Planning COE and technology teams to improve workflows, tools, and adoption. Stakeholder Management & Business Storytelling Partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Service, Supply Planning, and Operations to align on the demand outlook. Translate complex data into concise business narratives that clarify what changed, why it matters, and what decision is needed. Build trusted relationships while maintaining objectivity, constructive challenge, and enterprise-first decision-making. Forecast Performance, Governance & Continuous Improvement Monitor forecast accuracy, bias, forecast value add, demand volatility, and key planning assumptions; conduct root cause analysis on misses and recurring exceptions. Capture upstream demand signals and document the source, timing, magnitude, expected impact, and owner of material assumptions and commercial inputs. Govern commercial inputs by challenging source, timing, magnitude, duplication risk, and alignment to the enterprise demand view; track assumption realization and recommend process, data, system, or behavior improvements. Scope: (Include scope/ complexity of the role that can be measured and are pertinent to the roles responsibilities) Owns the consensus demand plan, upstream signal capture, assumptions, and forecast performance for assigned products, customers, channels, or categories. Supports cross-functional decisions affecting service, inventory, capacity, revenue, margin, and financial commitments across short- and mid-term planning horizons. Operates independently within E2E Planning governance, standardized processes, decision rights, and escalation paths; career level 20. Basic & Preferred Qualifications       Education/ Certifications: (Required & Preferred) Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Analytics, Finance, or a related field required. ASCM inventory or CPIM coursework or certification is a plus. Skills and Experience: 5–8 years of experience in Demand Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Sales Forecasting, or Integrated Business Planning. Experience facilitating cross-functional planning processes, consensus forecasting, upstream signal capture, assumption management, and commercial input governance. Strong analytical skills with experience in statistical forecasting, scenario analysis, root cause analysis, and business analytics. Experience with advanced planning systems such as Kinaxis Maestro, SAP IBP, SAP APO, Oracle, o9, Blue Yonder, or similar platforms. Experience using Power BI, Tableau, Excel, SQL, or other analytical tools. Strong business acumen and understanding of how demand decisions affect service, inventory, operations, revenue, margin, and financial performance. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence without direct authorit