Why this role exists:

The Demand Planner provides a transparent and reliable view of expected customer demand across an assigned category portfolio. The role develops and maintains forecasts at the required product, location and channel levels, focusing on what customers are expected to buy without being influenced by supply constraints or current inventory levels.

The Demand Planner brings together statistical forecasts, historical demand, seasonality, promotions, product lifecycle changes and relevant commercial insights to create a shared view of future demand. The role monitors forecast performance explores significant changes and highlights potential risks and opportunities. Working closely with Category, Merchandise Planning, Finance, Supply Planning and Inventory Planning, the Demand Planner supports regular demand reviews, tests key assumptions and keeps a clear record of important forecast changes. The agreed forecast helps teams make informed commercial, supply and inventory decisions, supporting product availability, healthy inventory levels and effective use of working capital.





Where you will make a difference:

Baseline Forecasting and Statistical Modelling
- Develop, validate and maintain statistical demand forecasts for the assigned category portfolio across the required product, location, channel and planning horizons.
- Analyse historical sales, demand patterns, seasonality and relevant market information to establish an objective baseline forecast in Relex.
- Identify and account for historical data distortions, including stockouts, lost sales, one-off orders, store closures, substitutions and other anomalies.
- Evaluate forecast performance across different product segments and apply forecasting approaches appropriate to their demand characteristics.
- Reconcile forecasts across relevant product, category, location and channel levels to maintain a coherent demand view.
- Maintain clear documentation of forecasting methods, assumptions and material ad

📌 Demand Planner (Bengaluru)
🏢 Officeworks
📍 Bengaluru