APO Demand Planning / IBP Product Owner

🚨 Urgent Hiring – APO Demand Planning / IBP Product Owner 🚨

Job Title: APO Demand Planning – Product Owner / IBP
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $120K–$130K + (slightly higher for exceptional candidates)
Priority: Urgent & Critical Requirement

Mandatory Skills

• Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO)

• Demand Planning

• Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

• Product Ownership

• Program Management

• Agile Backlog & Feature Management

• SAP exposure/experience preferred

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own the APO Demand Planning product roadmap and prioritize enhancements.

• Lead demand-planning design across business, supply chain, and IT teams.

• Translate IBP requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Govern statistical forecasting, consensus planning, and exception-management processes.

• Coordinate releases, testing, deployment, and adoption of APO improvements.

• Monitor forecast accuracy, forecast bias, service levels, and overall planning performance.

• Identify and resolve process gaps while driving standardization across markets and products.

• Provide stakeholder updates, training, documentation, and change-management support.