Senior Manager, Demand Planning
Please note: This is a remote position, but candidates must be available to work during Eastern Time hours.
Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.
We are a rapidly growing company that’s revolutionizing the way the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an unrivaled commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects that will help shape the future of the company. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
Bready for a change? *
The Hardware Supply Demand Planning team is seeking a Senior Manager who will be responsible for all aspects of Toast’s global hardware demand forecasts, and will be responsible for accurately predicting future demand to ensure Toast has the right inventory in the right place at the right time. Specifically - the Senior Manager will play a significant role in designing, implementing, and executing planning and reporting processes for these plans, as well as integrating these plans into other functions throughout the company.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Lead the forecasting of global hardware demand by region and market segment, including Core, Enterprise, and International. Generate weekly and monthly plans that meet Toast operational needs, and work closely with stakeholders to integrate plans across the organization as needed.
- Develop, manage, and refine the demand forecasting process with statistical models using historical data, market intelligence, promotional plans, and other influencing factors to predict future product demand.
- Drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy metrics and reduce bias across product categories.
- Lead demand consensus with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and other stakeholders to ensure cross functional alignment with demand assumptions.
- Communicate risks, opportunities, and the baseline assumptions of the demand plans. Work closely with Supply Planning lead and the broader Supply Chain teams in developing and implementing contingency plans as needed to mitigate impacts to Toast customers.
- Track and communicate month over month and cumulative demand plan changes by product by supplier.
- Oversee NPI demand forecasting, and manage all demand planning requests related to new product launches.
- Responsible for preparing global demand planning updates and presenting at monthly S&OP meeting with leadership and cross functional teams.
- Partner and work closely with the business systems team to develop internal and external tools to make the demand planning function sustainable and scalable.
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in forecasting demand and budgeting in a high growth environment
- Expert spreadsheet skills; extensive experience building financial and/or operational models, analyzing large data sets, and collating data from multiple sources
- Excellent communication skills; experience presenting complex data to executive stakeholders; ability to distill complex analyses into structured outputs and present to all levels of management
- Ability to think creatively and critically, and thrive in a dynamic and often ambiguous work environment
- Experience with transitioning from spreadsheets to systems, automating processes and tools
Special sauce* (Non-essential Skills/Nice to Haves) :
- Prior planning experience in consumer electronics or other high-value consumer goods
- History of achieving >90% forecast accuracy in complex product environments
- Experience developing forecast bias correction algorithms
- Knowledge of machine learning applications in demand forecasting
- Multi-industry or global planning experience
- Certification in supply chain management (CSCP, CPIM, etc.)
- Experience querying and manipulating data using SQL and/or Python
- Experience with Javascript
Our Spread of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
*Bread puns encouraged but not required
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.
We Thrive Together
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.
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Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
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