Vantage is a fast-growing, leading global supplier of naturally derived specialty ingredients and formulations that cater to the evolving needs of consumer and industrial markets. Through our chemistries, our customer focus and our vertically integrated farming, manufacturing, and formulation facilities around the world, we are Enabling Tomorrow’s Solutions Today. With more than 1,000 employees, $1+ billion in sales and a footprint in 13 countries around the world, Vantage is driven by an intense focus on our customers, providing a broad portfolio of customized solutions, formulations and ingredients that are tailored to meet their specific needs. Under the leadership of Steve Doktycz, a 27-year chemical industry and strategic development veteran, its tenured leadership team represents decades of industry experience coupled with entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for natural chemistries. Vantage is headquartered in the United States (Deerfield, IL, a Chicago suburb). Since its inception in 2008, Vantage’s continued growth has been realized through a combination of focused commercial efforts, significant capital investment into our manufacturing assets, strategic entry into geographic markets and niche acquisitions to develop our leading portfolio of natural-based specialty ingredients. Vantage is backed by H.I.G., a leading global alternative investment firm with $43 billion of equity capital under management with a focus on the small and midcap segments of the market, with a minority investment by The Jordan Company. **Primary Objective**: Collaborate with the demand planning leaders in the commercial team to develop and maintain an unconstrained demand forecast view for 12 months. Aggregate all sources of demand for input to the demand prioritization model. Collaborate with commercial PM’s and Supply & Inventory Analyst to develop and maintain the margin velocity file. Develop prioritized demand pareto for the entire business and segments. Facilitate a quarterly process to update the customer and product priorities as input to the demand model. Provide this data as input to the Supply & Inventory planning process to execute the demand planning process to guarantee an adequate supply process, as well as to guarantee the generation of purchase orders and production jobs, seeking optimal inventory levels and ensuring a high customer service. **Specific Responsibilities**: 1. Lead the unconstrained demand analysis and prioritization process for the area/site assigned. This role must be agnostic to competing interests of different regions or business units in the Company. 2. Ensure Demand side meetings are scheduled, analysis is complete, conclusions and outputs are sufficient to communicate the monthly plan during the Demand and Executive agreement reviews including follow-up actions are published. 3.Align the unconstrained demand profile and process in accordance with the expectations of the Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) process. 4.Gather all forecast files to start SIOP cycle 5.Actively participate in the SIOP process, identify and drive improvements and act as a backup to the supply and inventory analyst role. 6.Develop, track and improve agreed to KPI’s for the SIOP function to achieve business goals and objectives (Smog, Forecast Accuracy, Backlog, SKUs turn over, overstock and shortages others). 7.Develop effective analysis tools and models based on industry trends and demand patterns, to predict future events associated with the products and services offered and collaborate with the responsible commercial demand collection individuals. 8.Work hand in hand with the Commercial and Customer Service team, to challenge and reach agreements regarding the estimation of future sales. 9.Propose and implement solutions to improve the accuracy of demand forecasting. 10.Serve as a challenge partner along with supply chain and commercial colleagues, asking the question what would happen if? to propose alternative demand scenarios. 11.Permanently question what would happen if? to propose alternative demand scenarios. 12.Integrate the demand planning process with the financial and budget management process 13.Collaborate with the Supply & Inventory analyst to ensure the plans are synchronized 14.Monitor the accuracy of the commercial forecast vs actual sales performance. 15 Contribute to the generation of action plans to improve the commercial forecast. 16.Analyze and anticipate market trends and new products to ensure the forecast is accurate to achieve sales goals. 17.Communicate the prioritized demand forecast to all functions (commercial, supply chain, operations, procurement and customer service). 18.Support other initiatives and requirements as defined by SIOP leader. 19.Analyze and release suggested purchase orders based on MRP process. (considering the On Hand Inventory, lead time, safety stock, the demand plan, others). 20.Analyze and issue suggested production jobs base