Demand Planner

Laminex Australia is a leading supplier of innovative and high-quality surfaces, panels and decorative solutions, helping bring great design to homes, workplaces and commercial spaces across Australia. With a strong reputation built over decades, Laminex is part of the wider Fletcher Building group and combines trusted Australian brands with a strong focus on innovation, sustainability and customer experience.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially minded supply chain professional who knows that great demand planning is about more than numbers — it’s about strong processes, accurate data, collaboration and disciplined execution.

About the role

As Demand Planner, based in Melbourne, you’ll play a key role in ensuring we have a robust demand plan. Working across Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply Planning, you will lead the development of a consensus demand plan, identify emerging trends and risks, and drive planning excellence through our Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining accurate demand forecasts through analysis of historical sales, market trends, customer insights and business drivers.
• Leading the monthly Demand Consensus process, facilitating alignment across Sales, Marketing and Finance to deliver a single, agreed demand plan and financial outlook.
• Driving the demand planning components of our Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Integrated Tactical Planning (ITP) processes, supporting informed cross-functional decision making.
• Partnering with Supply Planning to balance demand and supply requirements, ensuring risks and opportunities are identified and managed proactively.
• Monitoring and analysing forecast accuracy, bias and key planning performance metrics, implementing actions to improve forecast outcomes.
• Evaluating the demand impact of new product launches, promotional activity and key customer initiatives.

What We're Looking For

We're seeking an experienced Demand Planner who combines strong analytical capability with commercial acumen and a passion for process excellence. You'll be comfortable working with complexity, influencing stakeholders and using data to drive better business outcomes.

You will bring:

• Tertiary qualifications in Supply Chain, Business, Commerce, Economics, Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in Demand Planning and knowledge of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Integrated Tactical Planning (ITP) processes, with an appreciation of how demand planning supports effective business decision-making.
• Experience working with Advanced Supply Chain Planning systems.
• Advanced analytical skills, with experience interpreting large and complex data sets to generate actionable insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build alignment across functions and levels of the organisation.
• A structured and disciplined approach, with strong attention to detail and a continuous improvement mindset.
• APICS certification (CPIM, CSCP or equivalent) will be highly regarded.

Why Laminex?

Join a well-established organisation where your expertise will genuinely influence how the business plans, performs and serves its customers. You’ll have the opportunity to work within a collaborative supply chain environment, make a tangible impact on planning performance and contribute to continuous improvement across the business.

If you’re an experienced Demand Planner who thrives on structure, process and turning data into better business decisions, we’d love to hear from you.