Manager, Demand Planner

🕒 October 10

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔗 Supply Chain

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Oatly

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Consulting

Oatly is a company that was founded in 1994 with the goal of producing sustainable and responsible products, specifically plant-based alternatives like oat milk. The company is dedicated to promoting healthier living by offering products with maximum nutritional value and minimal environmental impact. Oatly believes in the importance of companies taking responsibility for societal issues and advocates for growing food for direct human consumption rather than for animal feed. Its mission includes making positive changes in eating habits without taxing the planet's resources.

📋 Description

• Lead the North America Demand Planning team and establish a high-performing, data-driven planning organization • Own the regional demand plan across all channels, customers, and product categories over a 12–48-month horizon • Ensure demand plans reflect commercial strategies, promotions, customer developments, portfolio initiatives, and market intelligence • Lead statistical and judgmental forecasting methodologies • Monitor and improve Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, and forecast value-add metrics • Use advanced analytics, market data, customer insights, and business intelligence tools to identify trends and risks • Develop scenario planning to evaluate market changes, supply constraints, customer actions, product launches, and promotions • Drive root cause analyses to improve forecast performance and business decision quality • Lead the Demand Review process within the monthly Integrated Business Planning cycle • Facilitate consensus planning with Commercial, Finance, Supply Planning, and Portfolio teams • Translate market assumptions into demand outlooks covering volume, revenue, and margin expectations • Identify demand risks and opportunities and develop mitigation and gap-closing plans • Present demand insights, scenarios, and recommendations to senior leadership • Align the demand plan with financial outlook and supply capabilities • Improve forecasting processes, planning governance, data quality, parameter governance, and reporting automation • Drive adoption and optimization of Anaplan, Power BI, AI forecasting, and advanced planning tools • Coach, mentor, and develop Demand Planners • Establish performance expectations and development plans • Build succession plans and future planning capabilities across North America

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related field • 5+ years of Demand Planning, IBP, S&OP or Commercial Planning experience • 3+ years of people leadership experience • Proven experience leading demand planning processes in FMCG, food & beverage, consumer goods, or other fast-moving industries • Demonstrated success driving cross-functional alignment and influencing senior stakeholders • Experience supporting executive-level decision-making through analytics and scenario planning • Experience with planning platforms such as Anaplan, SAP IBP, OMP, Kinaxis, or equivalent • Strong BI utilization and Excel capabilities • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Ability to travel 25% • Connection to Oatly's mission of health, sustainability, and transparency • Self-starter with individual accountability and ownership • Ability to work effectively in a smaller, growing brand • Entrepreneurial spirit and comfort with ambiguity • Willingness to share talents and collaborate with coworkers

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible vacation • Great benefits, including pet insurance • Paid volunteer days off throughout the year • Free six packs of oatmilk • Reasonable accommodations for a barrier-free interview experience