Sazerac Company
Global Demand Planner
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Sazerac Company Overview
Build your career at Sazerac! With almost 400 years of rich history, Sazerac Company has thrived as an independent, American family-owned company with operations in the United States and around the world. Since the 2000s, Sazerac has averaged double-digit growth every year! Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, Traveller, and Sazerac Rye. Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Svedka, Wheatley, BuzzBallz, Southern Comfort, Seagram’s V.O., Myers’s, Goldschläger, Parrot Bay, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka.
Job Description/Responsibilities
The Global Demand Planner is a key contributor in the demand portion of Sazerac’s Global S&OP process for global markets outside of the United States, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia.
This role is responsible for creating, maintaining, and improving the quality of the demand signal provided to supply planning, production, finance, commercial, and regional leadership teams.
This individual contributor role operates with a high level of ownership and cross-functional influence. The Global Demand Planner will partner closely with regional sales leaders, global commercial teams, Global S&OP, supply planning, logistics, finance, and brand teams to ensure forecasts reflect current business expectations, market intelligence, customer demand, launch timing, allocation decisions, and supply constraints.
The role is positioned in the UK to improve support for global markets through closer alignment with regional sales teams, improved time zone coverage, and stronger participation in global S&OP activities that are led by Sazerac Switzerland.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead demand planning function for assigned markets outside of US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia.
- Utilize Demand planning tools and processes established by Sazerac’s Global S&OP team.
- Partner with regional sales teams and global commercial stakeholders to capture market intelligence, customer insights, launch timing, distributor plans, and incremental opportunities.
- Build scalable demand planning processes, reporting, and communication routines that improve global planning maturity.
- Key interface with Global S&OP team, executing Sazerac’s Global S&OP process and strategy.
- Improve forecast quality through analytics, exception management, statistical forecasting, and structured cross-functional review.
- Maintain a prioritized list of demand-related risks, opportunities, and process improvements to support business objectives and target ship dates.
- Serve as a key owner of the demand portion of Global S&OP, ensuring forecast changes, risks, opportunities, and decisions are clearly communicated and actioned.
- Proactively identify demand risks, supply constraints, timing issues, and forecast gaps that may impact service, inventory, allocation, or financial performance.
- Develop and maintain accurate item-level forecasts that support supply planning, production planning, financial planning, and commercial execution.
- Support global new business development, product launches, LTOs, transitions, and market expansions by ensuring demand plans are accurate, timely, and aligned across functions.
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Qualifications/Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Strong technical capability with planning systems, reporting tools, excel, and data analysis.
- Relevant experience in demand planning, supply chain planning, s&op, commercial operations, or related field.
- Strong experience in demand planning, supply chain planning, s&op, commercial planning, or related field.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, including regional leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Ability to translate data, market intelligence, and business context into actionable forecasts and recommendations.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize competing demands, and drive alignment across regions and functions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in business, supply chain, analytics, or related field.
- Experience supporting international or multi-region markets.
- Experience with s&op or ibp processes.
- Experience with statistical forecasting, exception management, and demand planning systems.
- Proficiency in data visualization and reporting tools such as power bi.
- Apics certification, six sigma certification, or equivalent supply chain certification.
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