Demand Planning Manager

Manager, Demand PlanningAmazon's technology supply chain supports a complex and rapidly evolving portfolio of infrastructure, end-user equipment, and technology products across thousands of locations globally. As the business scales, accurate and forward-looking demand planning is critical to ensuring supply availability, managing inventory investment, and delivering predictable outcomes for customers. We are seeking a Manager, Demand Planning to lead the demand planning capability within Supply Chain Planning. This leader will manage a team responsible for developing and continuously improving demand plans across the existing customer business segments, while establishing scalable mechanisms that can support new businesses, products, and fulfillment models.The successful candidate will build a demand planning organization that combines strong planning fundamentals with data, technology, and automation. This includes improving forecast quality, integrating customer and business signals, identifying structural sources of forecast error, and partnering with Product, Data, Analytics, and Technology teams to reduce manual planning activity and enable increasingly intelligent forecasting capabilities.The ideal candidate combines strong supply chain expertise, analytical depth, customer orientation, business judgment, and people leadership. They must be comfortable challenging assumptions, navigating incomplete or conflicting signals, and influencing stakeholders across Supply Chain, Finance, Technology, Operations, Procurement, and customer organizations.Key job responsibilities include:Lead, coach, and develop a team responsible for demand planning across Launch, KTLO, and Programs.Own the end-to-end demand planning mechanism, including forecast creation, validation, consensus, performance measurement, and continuous improvement.Translate customer, business, historical, operational, and market signals into credible forward-looking demand plans at the appropriate product, geographic, and time horizons.Establish clear accountability for demand inputs and challenge assumptions, overrides, and changes that are not supported by measurable business signals.Define and improve forecast accuracy, bias, forecast value-add, and other metrics that distinguish true demand variability from process, data, and system defects.Partner with Supply Planning and Enterprise S&OP to surface demand uncertainty, quantify risks, and support scenario and trade-off decisions.Develop segmented planning approaches appropriate for different demand patterns, including launches, steady-state replenishment, and program-driven demand.Partner with Product, Data, Analytics, and Technology teams to automate forecast ingestion, validation, anomaly detection, and planner workflows.Advance the use of statistical forecasting, machine learning, and AI to improve forecast quality and reduce dependence on manual reconciliation and judgment.Simplify fragmented demand signals and processes, with a long-term goal of connecting Planning more directly to customer and business demand signals.Build scalable mechanisms that support new products, businesses, regions, and planning paradigms without creating parallel planning processes.Communicate demand outlook, uncertainty, structural risks, and recommended actions clearly to senior stakeholders.Basic qualifications include:5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience5+ years of team management experience5+ years of cross functional project delivery experience5+ years of program or project management experience5+ years of supply chain experienceExperience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvementsBachelor's degreeExperience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial results across multiple business areas, or experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solvingPreferred qualifications include:Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadershipExperience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardizationExperience managing teams of 3 or moreMaster's degreeExperience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday), or experience working with Excel, reporting tools, and large-scale data mining tools, such as Power BI, Python, SQL, or TableauAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. 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