About the Opportunity

The Demand Management team supports Driscoll’s mission by aligning supply and demand through strategic short-range planning across all sales channels for all berries. This role collaborates cross-functionally with several other workgroups to manage customer demand and align to supply as needed. The position focuses on optimizing pricing, enhancing customer experience, and achieving fiscal targets by integrating customer priorities and market conditions into demand plans. Success in this role requires a strategic, detail-oriented, and collaborative professional with strong business acumen and a proactive mindset.

Responsibilities

The purpose of the Demand Management department is to support Driscoll’s Mission through skilled planning and execution that ensures effective supply and demand alignment, enabling exceptional service to both internal and external customers.  The team supports go-to-market and customer strategies through detailed short-range demand planning across all Sales channels.

This position will work collaboratively with Sales, Product Business Management, Customer Development, Marketing, and the broader Demand Management team to forecast and manage sales demand across all berries. The goal is to optimize pricing, enhance the customer experience, and achieve strategic fiscal year targets for both pricing and customer performance within the assigned channel. This role is also responsible for ensuring that customer priorities, strategic objectives, and market conditions are key drivers in the development, maintenance, and communication of demand plans to stakeholders.

The role requires a strategic and detail-oriented professional to lead initiatives that bridge Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) with Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE). Deep collaboration is required with Supply Chain partners and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between demand forecasts, supply capabilities, and execution plans at the Week, Day, Site and Item level. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving integrated planning processes, facilitating cross-functional consensus, and ensuring seamless execution across commercial and operational domains.

This position requires a highly motivated individual who blends business expertise, an innovative can-do attitude, pragmatic demand management experience, and a collaborative mindset that contributes positively to team dynamics.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 5+ years of progressive experience in the produce industry.

• 4 + years of experience with the channels of distribution/supply chain of perishable products.

• 4 + years of experience influencing others with collaborative and cross-functional work.

• 4 + years of experience in produce sales, marketing, and/or customer development.

• 4 + years of experience in operations, processes and systems.

• Excel, Power Point and Outlook – Advanced.

• Exceptional presentation, written and oral communication skills.

• Able to travel both domestic and international.

• Valid US driver’s license and passport.

Preferred experience

• 2+ years of experience with Demand Forecasting is a plus.

• Tableau, Oracle and/or Anaplan experience are a plus.

Compensation & Benefits:

The following information is provided in good faith as a general description of the salary range and benefits for the position posted.  The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate is dependent upon experience, skills, education, work location, internal pay equity, and other objective job-related factors.

Salary Range estimated for this role is: $84,885 to $114,000 based on experience and qualification. This role also offers Profit Share Bonus.

Driscoll’s is committed to a culture of care and offers an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week. Other benefits include:  401(k) with employer match, profit-sharing participation, paid sick time, paid vacation, paid personal and family care leave, and a free Employee Assistance Program (EAP).  More detailed information regarding the benefits package, will be shared during the application process.

About Driscolls

Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world.

Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners.

Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries™.

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Driscoll's es el proveedor líder en la comercialización de Fresas, Frambuesas, Zarzamoras y Arándanos Azules en el mundo. Con más de 100 años de herencia en agricultura y cientos de productores independiente alrededor del mundo, Driscoll's es una compañía apasionada por cultivar Berries frescas, hermosas y deliciosas. Nuestros valores de humildad, pasión y confianza han guiado nuestra misión de deleitar a los consumidores en el mundo.

Las variedades exclusivas de Driscoll's han sido desarrolladas a través de años de investigación usando sólo métodos de mejoramiento natural. De la granja a la mesa, nos enfocamos en ofrecer una experiencia de alta calidad con apoyo de nuestros socios de la cadena de suministro.

Driscoll's es la marca de confianza de sólo las mejores Berries.