Short Intro and About the

Job:

As a Demand Planner at Danone North America, you will own the demand signal for a complex, fast-moving product portfolio. You will serve as the strategic integrator between commercial, supply chain, and analytics teams

• driving forecast accuracy, shaping demand insights, and ensuring our planning systems reflect the realities of the market.

This role is designed for an experienced planner who thrives in advanced ERP environments and can translate data into decisive action.

Job Responsibilities:

Lead Demand Planning for a high-volume Business Unit portfolio, ensuring high-quality forecasts that guide production, inventory, and service decisions Own the trend and executional planning process across the Business Unit, synthesizing consumption, fill rate, customer inventory, and shipment dynamics Leverage advanced analytics and machine-learning models within ERP systems to generate and refine short-term forecasts (12 week scope) in partnership with Forecast Analysts Serve as the primary liaison to Supply Planning, ensuring alignment on constraints, risks, and opportunities Present and animate core KPIS

• forecast accuracy, bias, waste, and service
• across senior stakeholders Partner and lead alignment conversations with Sales, Marketing, Category, Finance, and Supply Chain teams to develop long-term consensus forecast Collaborate closely with Category and Commercial teams to manage allocations, prioritization, promotional impacts, and innovation launches Build and present the long-term forecast to cross-functionals
• leveraging relevant consumption data, seasonality, and consumer behavior to drive a precise baseline The salary range for this position is $80,000.00
• $117,000.

00 USD. The exact salary offered will depend on several factors, including the candidate's relevant experience, geographic location, internal equity, and market conditions. Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options. To give our employees flexibility, Danone is a hybrid work environment.

About You:

Job Qualifications:

Experience with one or more planning platforms such as: SAP APO, o9, SAP ECC/S4, Circana, IRI, Nielsen, or similar tools Experience leveraging statistical or machine-learning forecasting outputs to improve demand plans, with root-cause analysis, and scenario planning Exceptional communication skills with proven ability to influence key stakeholders Experience supporting

S&OP/IBP

cycles and presenting to senior leadership

Experience and Education Requirement:

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Economics, or related field; Master's preferred. 3-7 years of hands-on demand planning or forecasting experience in CPG, food & beverage, or similarly complex supply chains 3+ years of experience with S&OP processes and cross-functional collaboration

APICS/IBF

certification (CPIM, CSCP, or CPF) is a plus. O9 and/or Circana/IRI systems experience is a plus. About Us, We offer and What's next: Life at Danone With approximately 5,000 employees and 13 production locations across the U.S., our vibrant culture and endless growth opportunities are just a couple of the reasons our employees call themselves "Proud Danoners." Learn more about Life at Danone Our Brands When you join us, you'll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world, including Activia®, DanActive®, Danimals®, Dannon®, evian®, Follow Your Heart®, Happy Family® Organics, International Delight®, Light + Fit®, Nutricia ®, Oikos®, Silk®, So Delicious® Dairy Free, STōK® Cold Brew Coffee ®, Too Good & Co™, and YoCrunch®. Our Purpose We're committed to making a positive impact on our world. Rooted in our mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we're proud to be the world's largest B Corp. Learn more about our mission. Our Benefits Our commitment to making the world healthier starts with our employees.

Physical Wellbeing:

We pay for the majority of your medical benefits

• which include medical, dental and vision
• with our competitive 80%/20% cost-sharing model.

Mental Wellbeing:

Danoners receive fitness discounts, unlimited flexible time off and hybrid work schedules. We also have a range of programs that support mental health and substance abuse.

Financial Support:

We offer a performance-based bonus, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, employee discount programs and voluntary perks.

Family Care:

We offer caretaker benefits, 18 weeks of parental bonding, fertility, surrogacy, adoption benefits and pet insurance. Learn more about our benefits. Equal Opportunity Employer Danone North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial and/or local law. For our EEO policy statement and your EEO rights under law click here. #

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