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Senior Demand Planner (Best Buy Home Appliance)

LG Electronics USA
parental leave, paid time off, 401(k)
United States, New Jersey, Englewood Cliffs
111 Sylvan Avenue (Show on map)
Sep 12, 2025
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At LG, we strive to make Life Good for Everyone. Summary Manage demand planning and forecasting across all appliance categories for our Best Buy channel. Will collaborate with customer and internal stakeholders to lead CPFR (collaborative planning and forecasting) meetings to drive accurate forecasts and to manage healthy levels of pipeline inventory. Will help support sales growth by maximizing sales opportunity through maximizing inventory availability across all customer warehouses. Will be responsible for ensuring high levels of on time delivery and reduced compliance cost. Will work cross functionally to maximize direct shipment from factory and to help implement fulfillment strategies to manage logistics costs. Responsibilities Lead CPFR meetings to generate and align forecasts with Best Buy. Review Forecasts internally weekly with all stakeholders. Lead weekly dashboard meetings to monitor and share key performance indicators to help identify issues and opportunities for improvement. Root cause issues driving misses to our KPIs and develop action plans to correct. As an example, if our forecasting accuracy is low, this role will check which models are driving the miss and address future forecasts accordingly. Manage forecasts, identify potential risks, and help to drive sales growth for Best Buy. Maximize direct shipments for Best Buy. Responsible for Best Buy forecasting and ordering which will impact production and inbounds from global factory subsidiaries. Develop excel tools to better manage customer warehouse level inventory. Help with implementing new technologies such as machine learning forecasting. Monitor key KPIs to identify potential risks and think of ways to improve our performance. For example, if our direct ship rate is low, this role would be encouraged to find ways to increase our direct rate through creative means, such as reducing ship to locations or increased container mixing, etc. Daily communication with customer and internal stakeholders to address day to day issues, weekly collaborative forecasting meetings, participate in quarterly in-person meetings business review with customer. Negotiate with customer as well as internal stakeholders to drive and implement process improvements. Qualifications Bachelor's degree with 5+ years experience in SCM or related field Strong understanding of global supply chain, demand planning, and inventory management Strong verbal and written communication skills Ability to meet tight deadlines to meet deliverables and partner expectations Strong presentation skills and ability to influence using data Demonstrated success in taking initiative and multi-tasking in a high pressure environment Strong relationship builder able to work within cross functional teams Excellent data analysis skills Solid business acumen APICs certification preferred but not required Recruiting Range $90,000 - $100,000 USD Benefits Offered Full-Time Employees: No-cost employee premiums for you and your eligible dependents for competitive medical, dental, vision and prescription benefits. Auto enrollment with immediate vesting of competitive company matching contributions in a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with several investment options. Generous Paid Time Off program that includes company holidays and a combined bank of paid sick and vacation time. Performance based Short-Term Incentives (varies by role). Access to confidential mental health resources to help you and your loved ones improve your quality of life. Personal fitness goal incentives. Family orientated benefits such as paid parental leave and support for families raising children with learning, social, behavioral challenges, or developmental disabilities. Group Rate Life and Disability Insurance. Benefits Offered Temporary/Contractors: Eligible for the relevant benefit programs offered through our partner agencies. Privacy Notice to California Applicants At LG, we aspire to empower people and celebrate differences because we believe diversity will create the unexpected. We provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Consistent with our commitment to providing equal opportunity and embracing diversity, LG has implemented affirmative action to ensure applicants are employed and employees are treated without regard to these characteristics. In addition to the above, LG believes that pay transparency is a key part of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our salary ranges take into account many factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skillset, experience, licensure, certifications, internal equity, and other business needs. While we consider geographic pay differentials in final offers, because we operate in many geographies where applicable, the salary range listed may not reflect all geographic differentials applied.