Demand Planner

The future of aerospace and defense starts here.

Ursa Major was founded to revolutionize how America and its allies access and apply high-performance propulsion, from hypersonics to solid rocket motors, satellite maneuvering and launch. We design and deliver propulsion and defense systems that solve the most urgent and critical national security demands.

We are seeking a Demand Planner to develop and maintain the demand plan for an assigned portfolio of programs. This role takes the inputs provided by Program Management and Business Development and shapes them into a single, time-phased plan the business can execute against.

As a Demand Planner, you work across both the executional horizon that drives build and buy decisions and the long-range horizon that drives capacity, capital, and hiring decisions. Program Management and Business Development own what the business has committed to and what it expects to win. You take those inputs, reconcile and shape them into a defensible, time-phased demand plan, bring that plan to the monthly SIOP cycle, and hand the agreed version to Supply Planning in a form that can be executed. The SIOP calendar, the demand review, and the reporting cadence are established; this role runs its portfolio inside them.

• Develop and maintain the demand plan for an assigned portfolio of programs across both the executional horizon and the long-range horizon.

• Develop and maintain a rolling 0-12 month demand profile used for build and buy decisions, and extend the signal into the long-range horizon used for capacity, facility, and hiring decisions.

• Maintain alignment of the demand plan, supply solves, and risks and opportunities versus plan, and serve as the planning point of contact for the SIOP demand process for assigned programs.

• Gather and interrogate the demand inputs provided by Integrated Product Teams, Program Management, Business Development, and Finance, including contract backlog, funded and unfunded scope, and delivery commitments.

• Translate program milestones and delivery commitments into time-phased unit and rate demand, including programs with no forecast history.

• Ensure robust inputs, validity checks, and corrective actions within the forecasting and planning cycle to minimize error and maximize agility.

• Publish forecast accuracy and bias by program and in aggregate, and drive the corrective conversations those metrics point to.

• Lead the demand review of the monthly SIOP cycle for assigned programs, covering the plan, what changed since the last cycle, the assumptions behind the change, and the risks.

• Support short-term execution routines that enable rapid identification and resolution of near-term demand variances between SIOP cycles.

• Build and sustain the reporting and dashboards that make demand health, forecast accuracy, and risk visible to leadership.

• Maintain the assumption and change log so every movement in the plan is traceable to an input, a decision, or an event.

• Build upside, downside, and what-if demand scenarios that support capacity, capital, and staffing decisions in partnership with Finance and Operations.

• Deliver the agreed demand plan to Supply Planning in a form that can be executed, and stay engaged through the supply response to close gaps rather than pass them along.

• Forecast accuracy for the assigned portfolio measured and published every cycle, meeting the accuracy targets set for the program family.

• Forecast bias held within an agreed tolerance band, with persistent over-forecasting or under-forecasting identified and addressed