Assistant Manager – Demand Planning

About the role

You'll own the demand planning cycle end to end. You'll work across categories, channels, and grains to forecast demand, track performance, understand deviations, and ensure that planning insights drive business decisions. You'll collaborate with Finance, Buying, Design, Replenishment, and Inventory teams to align demand plans with business needs and maintain a clear view of what's selling, what's changing, and what needs attention.

What you'll do

• Build the plan: Develop seasonal and monthly demand plans by L1, category, channel, and grain
• Split targets into units, ASP, and revenue in alignment with Finance and Buying, while accounting for seasonality, launches, promotions, and sale periods
• Track it: Monitor weekly plan against actuals by L1, category, and channel. Flag deviations early, explain the reasons, and call out fast-, slow-, rising-
• Review it : Evaluate forecast accuracy and bias by category and channel. Identify over-planned and under-planned grains, understand root causes
• Provide Replenishment and Inventory teams with planning numbers for reordering, buying, and clearing inventory

What you need

• 5–8 yrs of experience
• Demand planning
• Excel
• Forecasting
• Any graduate