Sr. Demand Planner

Employee Type: Full time Location: IL Oak Brook Job Type: Supply Chain Planning Job Posting Title: Sr. Demand Planner About Us:   TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future. Named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values— Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals. What You Gain:   Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period – you’re eligible from your first day! 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll. Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays). Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way. An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups. Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.

About the Role: The Senior Demand Planner is a highly experienced forecasting and planning professional responsible for developing, maintaining, and continuously improving base statistical or machine learning forecasts and consensus demand plans across assigned categories. This role serves as a subject matter expert for demand planning processes and systems, provides leadership in cross-category consolidation and enterprise analysis, and supports special projects and capability development.   The Senior Demand Planner partners closely with Sales, Category Management, Finance, Supply Planning, and Operations to communicate forecast drivers, assumptions, risks, and opportunities while advancing planning maturity, governance, and analytical capability across the organization.   You’ll add value to this role through the following, but not limited to: Develop, own, and continuously improve high-quality demand forecasts using historical sales, shipment, depletion, and consumption data.   Analyze forecast accuracy, bias, value-add, volatility, and stability across categories; identify root causes and lead corrective actions.   Improve forecasting models, assumptions, and processes to strengthen forecast quality and business confidence.   Manage complex demand forecasting unit structures and lifecycle events, including new product introductions, phase-ins, and phase-outs, based on enterprise risk and value.   Lead and influence Integrated Business Planning demand consensus discussions for assigned categories.   Perform cross-category and portfolio-level consolidation to identify aggregate demand trends, trade-offs, risks, and opportunities.   Provide forward-looking analysis and