Learntastic

Demand Planner

Remote
Full Time
Mid Level
LearnTastic is a fast-growing online education platform providing accredited continuing-education and compliance courses for professionals across industries—from healthcare and construction to HR and education. With more than 1,000 courses and over a million learners served, LearnTastic is redefining accessible, self-paced learning. Our mission is to make professional development simple, engaging, and impactful—anytime, anywhere.
We're looking for a Demand Planner to join our team.

Key Responsibilities:
Forecasting & Demand Management
  • Develop, maintain, and improve short-, medium-, and long-term demand forecasts for
  • thermoformed and extruded products using historical data, customer inputs, industry
  • trends, and analytical tools.
  • Monitor forecast accuracy (MAPE, Bias, etc.) and implement corrective actions to improve
  • performance.
  • Identify demand risks, surges, shifts in customer ordering behavior, and communicate
  • impacts to operations and leadership.
  • Support pricing evaluations and new product introductions by estimating volume, capacity
  • requirements, and demand variability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Serve as the primary liaison between Sales, Customer Service, Production Scheduling, and
  • Operations to ensure alignment between demand and supply.
  • Participate in weekly and monthly S&OP meetings by presenting forecast updates, key
  • variances, and recommendations.
  • Work closely with Extrusion and Thermoforming teams to understand production
  • capabilities, resin usage, machine constraints, and lead time requirements.
  • Partner with Purchasing to plan raw material needs—especially resin and packaging
  • materials—based on forecast and production plans.

Production & Capacity Alignment
  • Translate demand forecasts into capacity requirements across multiple facilities and
  • production lines.
  • Coordinate with Production Planners and Plant Managers to balance loads, minimize
  • changeovers, and optimize machine utilization.
  • Support decisions on make-to-stock vs. make-to-order strategies, safety stock
  • calculations, and inventory targets.
  • Monitor facility-specific constraints and recommend proactive adjustments during peak
  • seasons, customer onboarding, or production shifts.

Data Analysis & Reporting
  • Analyze sales patterns, customer performance, and order history to identify opportunities
  • for improvement.
  • Generate and maintain KPI dashboards for forecast accuracy, inventory health, service
  • levels, and production capacity.
  • Provide data-driven insights to leadership to support strategic and operational decisions.
  • Continuous Improvement & Process Enhancement (Bonus / Preferred Experience)
  • Lead or participate in continuous improvement projects focused on forecasting accuracy,
  • inventory optimization, planning processes, and cross-department communication.
  • Identify inefficiencies in the demand planning workflow and propose standardized
  • procedures or digital tools to enhance planning efficiency.
  • Support implementation of ERP/MRP upgrades, forecasting software, or process
  • automation.
  • Promote best practices in planning, root-cause problem solving, and data integrity.

Desired Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations, Industrial
  • Engineering, or related field.
  • 5+ years of demand planning, forecasting, production planning, or supply chain experience
  • (manufacturing environment required).
  • Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel, ERP/MRP systems, and forecasting tools.
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally and communicate effectively with multiple
  • departments and facility locations.
  • Understanding of manufacturing principles, preferably in plastics, thermoforming,
  • extrusion, or related processing industries.
  • Experience in thermoforming, extrusion, or plastics manufacturing.
  • Knowledge of resin material planning and machine-based capacity scheduling.
  • Experience leading or contributing to continuous improvement initiatives (Lean, Six Sigma,
  • Kaizen, etc.).
  • Familiarity with advanced analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, forecasting software).
  • APICS/ASCM certification (CPIM, CSCP) or similar credentials.

Work Environment + Language Requirements
  • Global remote position
  • Requires at least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. Central Time each day
  • Minimal or no travel
  • Fluency in the English language; written and verbal proficiency (B2 level minimum on CEFR
  • scale)
  • Reports to a U.S.-based Operations/Logistics Leadership
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