Senior Manager, Demand Planning

Gaming:

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Position Summary

Light & Wonder is a leading cross-platform global game company focused on creating new worlds where players can immerse themselves in dynamic casino, online, and mobile gaming experiences. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, with nearly 5,000 employees globally, the company operates across six continents and partners with the world's most iconic casinos and operators. Our gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content that define the future of gaming entertainment.

The Senior Manager, Demand Planning, will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership of core global supply chain processes and execution of the global demand plan across Light & Wonder's gaming hardware portfolio. This role is responsible for translating commercial opportunities, product lifecycle plans, and market signals into a data-driven demand plan that enables operational execution and financial performance.
This role will create and maintain analytical forecast models, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sourcing, procurement, operations, sales, and finance. This individual will aggregate the global demand requirements for products across global regions with a focus on improving forecast accuracy and forecast bias.

This position requires that the individual possesses a foundational knowledge of sales & operations processes (S&OP) and is capable of troubleshooting process failures and drive continuous improvement. Comprehension of commercial sales operations, sales funnel probability analytics, and aptitude to dialogue with commercial leaders to translate sales opportunity into consensus demand.

As the business continues to evolve and grow, she/he will be responsible for developing tools and capabilities that support strategic imperatives and transformation objectives that drive forecast accuracy as well as profitability and efficient cash flow.

Key Responsibilities
Demand Planning

• Own a portion of the global demand forecast across product lines, regions, and lifecycle stages, including new product launches, trade shows, casino openings, and customer expansions.
• Develop and maintain statistical forecasting models and demand analytics frameworks that integrate historical demand patterns, commercial pipeline data, and market signals.
• Drive improvements in forecast accuracy, forecast bias, and demand visibility across the organization.

Scenario Planning & Analytics

• Develop demand scenario models and sensitivity analyses to assess the impact of market shifts, supply constraints, and new product introductions.
• Identify demand risks and opportunities and provide data-driven insights to executive stakeholders.
• Establish and track demand planning performance metrics, including forecast accuracy, forecast bias, and inventory alignment.

Product Lifecycle & Launch Planning

• Partner with Product Management, Sourcing, and Engineering to forecast new product introductions, product transitions, and lifecycle changes.
• Support launch readiness through demand planning for trade shows, major customer deployments, and regional expansion programs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Sales and Commercial Operations to translate opportunity pipelines and customer demand signals into forecast inputs.
• Collaborate with Supply Planning, Procurement, and Manufacturing to balance demand and supply and mitigate operational risk.
• Partner with Finance to support financial planning, revenue projections, and business performance reviews.

Planning Capability & Systems Development

• Lead the advancement of demand planning capabilities through process improvement, analytics development, and planning system enhancements.
• Support the evolution of advanced planning tools such as Anaplan or other supply chain planning platforms.
• Establish data governance and analytics frameworks that improve demand signal visibility across the organization.

Qualifications
Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Economics, or related field required.
• Master's degree preferred (MBA, Supply Chain, or Analytics).
• APICS certifications such as CPIM, CSCP, or IBF CPF preferred.
• Formal training in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) or Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) preferred.

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in supply chain planning, demand planning, or forecasting analytics.
• Experience leading global or multi-region demand planning processes within complex supply chains.
• Demonstrated expertise in forecast modeling, demand analytics, and scenario planning.
• Experience partnering with commercial organizations to translate pipeline activity into demand forecasts.
• Experience working with planning platforms (Anaplan, Oracle).
• Experience leading or developing planning teams or cross-functional planning processes.

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking and planning leadership
• Advanced analytics and demand modeling
• Cross-functional influence and stakeholder alignment
• Executive communication and storytelling with data
• Process design and continuous improvement
• Commercial acumen and financial alignment

Location/ In-Office Requirements:

• Las Vegas, NV
• In Office 3 days per week

Physical Requirements:

• This position operates in a professional office environment.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Work Conditions:

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, "L&W") are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you'd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.

Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you'd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.