North America Demand Planning Manager

North America Demand Planning Manager Demand Planning Leader, North America A strategic demand leader with strong analytical depth and a passion for the outdoors SUMMARY The Demand Planning Leader, North America is accountable for translating commercial strategy, product lifecycle plans, and market insights into high‑quality demand plans across short‑, mid‑, and long‑range horizons for the North American region. This role leads the North America demand planning team and owns forecast quality, analytics, and execution within the regional S&OP cadence. The position plays a critical role in enabling informed decision‑making, improving forecast accuracy and bias, and strengthening demand planning capability and maturity in alignment with global standards. The role partners closely with Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Product, and Category teams to ensure demand plans support revenue, margin, and inventory health, while serving as a key regional contributor to the broader S&OP / IBP process. CONTEXT The Planning organization is responsible for the development, execution and governance of a consensus demand forecast and aligned supply plan. As the North America Demand Planning Leader, you are accountable for: Translating commercial strategy, product lifecycle plans, and market insights into a high‑quality North America demand plan across short‑, mid‑, and long‑range horizons Ensuring supply plan creation and execution supports targeted service and inventory levels Driving alignment across markets, categories and stakeholders Developing talent and strengthening planning capabilities across the team Compensation: $84,919  to $147,758   This role requires a broad, enterprise level view across Supply Chain, Sales, Finance and Category initiatives, with a strong emphasis on collaboration, structure and continuous improvement. HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE 1. Demand Planning Leadership & Execution Own the development and delivery of a consensus demand plan for North America across all planning horizons. Lead the North America Demand Review and regional S&OP cadence, ensuring disciplined execution, clear assumptions, and timely escalation of risks and opportunities. Translate marketplace signals, promotional plans, customer dynamics, and product lifecycle inputs (NPI through EOL) into actionable demand and inventory plans. Ensure demand plans are delivered in the format, granularity, and timing required by downstream supply chain and commercial partners. 2. Forecast Quality, Analytics & Insights Own forecast accuracy, bias, and inventory KPIs for North America. Leverage data, analytics, and structured root‑cause analysis to continuously improve forecast quality and planning outcomes. Provide clear demand‑led insights, scenarios, and risks into regional and global S&OP / ES&OP forums. Partner with Finance to ensure demand plans are aligned with revenue, margin, and financial outlooks. 3. Team Leadership & Capability…