Job Description

The Manager, Brand and Portfolio Demand Planning, is accountable for working cross functionally with strategic Commercial Teams, such as Marketing, Innovation and Finance to build and maintain an integrated depletion plan using data and insights.

This manager will be responsible for translating Brand and portfolio depletion planning objectives into executable plans with a team of two Demand Planners. This role serves as the primary demand counterpart to Marketing, bridging brand strategy and execution by translating portfolio decisions, innovation plans, and cannibalization impacts into a coherent demand outlook and leads the Portfolio Review process.

Role ensures that the demand plan is credible, challenged, and defended at the right level and is strategically aligned with brand, innovation, and long‑range business plans.

This role requires a professional with a strong leadership background, the ability to inspire a team, and a track record of delivering results.

Key Responsibilities:

• Brand & Portfolio Demand Ownership
  • Own and defend brand‑level demand volumes, drivers, and Risks & Opportunities (R&Os) across all regions
  • Ensure brand assumptions are aligned and approved with Marketing prior to integration into regional demand plans
  • Lead the Monthly Portfolio Review meeting and process, framing brand tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities
  • Ensure the demand impact of brand strategy is clearly reflected in IBP forums
• Long‑Range & Strategic Planning
  • Own alignment of the Long‑Range Plan (LRP) and 5‑Year Forecast with Brand Plans and Business Plans
  • Ensure consistency between LRP, Annual operating plan (AOP), and near‑term demand plans
  • Translate strategic brand initiatives into executable demand assumptions
• Innovation & Portfolio Management
  • Ensure NPI launch and post‑launch demand are clearly incorporated into forecasts, highlighting risks and cannibalization
  • Own and govern the cannibalization process, ensuring impacts are modeled, communicated, and reflected in our forecasting tool o9
  • Partner with NPI & Portfolio Demand Planner to ensure innovation readiness and portfolio lifecycle integrity
• Stakeholder Leadership & Alignment
  • Provide leadership in all Brand Demand Prep and Portfolio forums
  • Act as the senior demand partner to Marketing leadership
  • Ensure tight alignment and communication with regional Demand Managers to maintain a single, coherent demand narrative
• People Leadership & Capability Building
  • Coach Demand Planners on executive presence, structured storytelling, and stakeholder management
  • Own the overall brand‑level demand accuracy target and improvement roadmap
  • Support our tool and process build and resulting future state processes as defined in our project roll out.
  • Build a diverse, highly agile team focused on successful outcomes and continuously identify areas of opportunity to improve, streamline or challenge the status quo.
  • Support the creation and delivery of critical planning based KPIs

Role Expertise

• Working experience, 6+ years in planning; commercial, demand or business planning.
• Experience leading a team in delivering continued strong results
• Experience in CPG industry, preferred.
• Experience leveraging data and analytics solutions, such as o9 and Power BI, preferred

Individual Skills

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrated ability to lead customer facing meetings and collaborative efforts across all levels of the organization.

• Proven ability to define tasks and metrics to implement a day/week/month in the life of their team to clearly execute responsibilities in support of the broader vision.

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities in critical thinking, decision making, effectively transmitting ideas and opinions, and the ability to grow from their experiences and adapt to new situations.

• Skilled collaborator with an ability to work cross-functionally with co-workers, related internal functions, external partners, and on project teams.

• Experience in using digital solutions to drive performance along with a demonstrated ability to use data to tell a story - an ability to communicate effectively across all formats.

• Demonstrated ability to leverage data & analytics to identify trends and opportunities to drive performance within their team.

• Must be a detail-minded, analytical, deadline-oriented self-starter who can work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

• Adaptive: Enable flexibility and support that fits team members’ unique needs

Mindsets & Behaviors

• Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change.
• Consumer obsessed – commitment to delivering a best-in-class customer experience.
• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust.
• Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn – pushes teams to do the same.
• Empowers others to fail, learn, and grow.
• Comfortable and experience bringing structure to ambiguity.
• Possesses a spirit of intellectual curiosity, creativity, and innovation.
• Integrity: Supporting teams in tough times, taking responsibility for issues under their purview and helping others without expecting something in return.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time and work on a computer for extended periods. Lifting may be required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
• Travel <10%

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Additional Locations

Rochester, New York

Job Type

Full time

Job Area

Supply Chain

The salary range for this role is:

$113,500.00 - $177,600.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  Our compensation is based on cost of labor. For remote locations or positions open to multiple locations, the pay range may reflect several US geographic markets, including the lowest geographic market minimum to the highest geographic market maximum. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.  At Constellation Brands, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Equal Opportunity

Constellation Brands is committed to a continuing program of equal employment opportunity. All persons have equal employment opportunities with Constellation Brands, regardless of their sex, race, color, age, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), marital status, gender (including gender identity or gender expression), familial status, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions (or any other group or category within the framework of the applicable discrimination laws and regulations).

Introduction

At Gallagher, we help clients face risk with confidence because we believe that when businesses are protected, they’re free to grow, lead, and innovate. You’ll be backed by our digital ecosystem: a client-centric suite of consulting tools making it easier for you to meet your clients where they want to be met. Advanced data and analytics providing a comprehensive overview of the risk landscape is at your fingertips. Here, you’re not just improving clients’ risk profiles, you’re building trust. You’ll find a culture grounded in teamwork, guided by integrity, and fueled by a shared commitment to do the right thing. We value curiosity, celebrate new ideas, and empower you to take ownership of your career while making a meaningful impact for the businesses we serve. If you’re ready to bring your unique perspective to a place where your work truly matters; think of Gallagher.

Overview

This role supports our Aerospace Insurance Division. The Account Representative assists Account Managers, Account Executives, Producers, Brokers in servicing designated group of clients or book of business as it relates to marketing, claims, administration, and sales.

How you’ll make an impact

• Under direction of more senior staff, provides administrative support to an assigned group of clients.
• Resolves customer service inquiries that require research and interactions with carriers or agents.
• Generally requires assistance when resolving more sophisticated problems.
• Day-to-day client contacts are generally mid- or lower-level client staff and contact with clients.
• Responds to client questions and maintains a log of conversations.
• Markets new and renewal accounts according to company procedures.
• Evaluates all proposals to include in spreadsheets.
• Prepares renewals and client information presentations and assists in preparing RFP responses.
• May provide guidance and direction to Customer Service Reps or administrative support.

About You

Required: High School Diploma/GED and 1+ years of related experience.

Compensation and benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more…

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.