At Emmi Roth, we’re passionate about creating exceptional cheeses. As a leader in the specialty cheese industry, we blend traditional craftsmanship with innovation. Our commitment to local sourcing and quality makes us a trusted brand in the food industry.
Joining Emmi Roth means becoming part of a team that values creativity, collaboration, and a shared dedication to excellence. You’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the finest cheeses in the world while contributing to a company that prides itself on both heritage and progress. If you're passionate about food, craftsmanship, and making an impact, we’d love for you to be a part of our journey!
Job Summary
The role converts POS and syndicated data, retailer replenishment patterns, promotions, seasonality, customer plans, and product lifecycle events into a reliable, explainable, and actionable demand signal that supports service, inventory, capacity, and business decision-making.
This is an individual-contributor role with functional leadership responsibility and no direct reports. The position leads the Retail Demand Review, challenges assumptions with data and commercial insight, drives forecast discipline and influences cross-functional stakeholders toward one aligned consensus plan.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Own the Retail consensus demand plan at the customer, item, and channel levels, integrating statistical baseline, promotional, seasonal, and new-item demand.
- Own and maintain the Retail demand plan in ADD*ONE, ensuring timely and accurate updates to statistical baselines, promotional inputs, forecast overrides, customer/item assumptions, and product lifecycle events in alignment with the IBP calendar.
- Build, size, and validate promotional forecasts, including event lift, cannibalization, pantry-loading, post-promotion dips, and recurring customer programs.
- Lead the monthly Retail Demand Review within the IBP cycle, ensuring clear assumptions, forecast changes, risks, opportunities, decisions, and follow-up actions.
- Leverage POS, syndicated, retailer replenishment, account-level, and customer planning data to improve forecast quality and identify emerging demand signals.
- Lead demand planning for new product launches, customer listings, category resets, transitions, and discontinuations.
- Partner with Sales, Category Management, Marketing, and Customer Service to validate commercial assumptions, promotional plans, customer activity, and large-account forecasts.
- Partner with Supply Planning and Finance to translate demand changes into clear service, inventory, capacity, and business implications, and ensure an effective handoff into Supply Review.
- Ensure the consensus demand plan, assumptions, risks, opportunities, major forecast changes, and required mitigation actions are clearly communicated and actionable across the broader IBP process.
- Measure and improve forecast accuracy, bias, and forecast value-add, with particular focus on promoted items, high-velocity items, and large retail accounts.
- Perform root-cause analysis on forecast misses and recurring planning gaps, and drive corrective actions across data, assumptions, tools, and processes.
- Provide functional leadership by challenging unsupported forecast overrides and commercial assumptions with data, business logic, and sound planning judgment, while driving disciplined use of ADD*ONE as the primary demand planning tool.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field; MBA, ASCM/APICS, or IBF certification preferred.
- 7+ years of experience in Retail or CPG demand planning, S&OP/IBP, or supply chain planning.
- Proven experience leading or facilitating a Retail Demand Review, consensus planning, or cross-functional forecasting process.
- Demonstrated expertise in promotional forecasting, including baseline separation, event lift, cannibalization, and post-promotion demand patterns.
- Strong experience using POS, syndicated, retailer replenishment, and account-level data to build and improve customer/item forecasts.
- Strong analytical, statistical forecasting, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills, with solid knowledge of forecast accuracy, bias, and demand planning KPIs.
- Proficiency with demand planning systems, ERP platforms, reporting tools, and advanced Excel or data analytics tools.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, challenge assumptions constructively, and communicate clear, data-driven business recommendations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in CPG, food and beverage, consumer products, or other complex retail environments.
- Experience supporting grocery, mass, club, specialty, or e-commerce retail customers.
- Familiarity with Joint Business Planning, CPFR, trade promotion management, demand sensing, or scenario planning.
- Experience improving IBP maturity, forecast governance, data quality, or planning process discipline.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- Basic Life Insurance
- Voluntary Life Insurance
- Flexible spending accounts & Health Savings Accounts
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Vacation
- Employee Assistance Program
- Short term/Long term disability
- Volunteer time off (VTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Pet insurance
