Manager, Supply Planner

We are looking for a Supply Planning Manager, North America to join our Supply Chain team. This role will lead the North American Supply Planning function and ensure the business has a robust, executable supply plan that delivers the right products at the right place and time while balancing customer service, inventory, capacity, cost, waste, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the North America Supply Planning team and build a high-performing, data-driven planning organization
• Own the development and execution of the regional supply plan across manufacturing sites, product categories, co-manufacturers, and the distribution network
• Translate the consensus demand plan into integrated capacity, production, inventory, deployment, and material requirements
• Establish clear planning priorities and decision rules across service, inventory, cost, capacity, and waste
• Connect short-, medium-, and long-term supply plans to provide a consistent view of regional supply capability
• Drive exception-based planning so the team can focus on decisions and risks rather than manual data processing
• Develop a forward-looking view of capacity requirements, constraints, gaps, bottlenecks, and opportunities across manufacturing sites and co-manufacturers
• Partner with Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, Customer Service, Deployment, Commercial, Finance, and the broader Supply Chain organization to develop mitigation plans and align around one set of numbers
• Evaluate production, sourcing, capacity, and inventory scenarios to optimize the North American supply network and support fact-based business decisions
• Ensure new products, renovations, transitions, and discontinuations are reflected in supply plans with clear ramp-up and phase-out strategies
• Own regional inventory planning principles, safety stock, inventory targets, planning parameters, and replenishment policies
• Balance customer availability with working capital, shelf life, storage capacity, obsolescence, and waste considerations
• Proactively identify shortages, excess inventory, service failures, inventory deviations, and supply disruptions, then coordinate root-cause analysis and corrective action
• Lead the Supply component of the North American Integrated Tactical Planning process and escalate structural or strategic constraints into the monthly Integrated Business Planning process
• Champion the simplification, standardization, automation, and effective use of planning systems, ERP capabilities, master data, advanced analytics, and AI
• Lead or contribute to regional and global planning transformation initiatives and deploy best practices across the planning organization
• Coach, mentor, and develop Supply and Deployment Planners; establish clear expectations and development plans; and strengthen succession and future planning capabilities

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related discipline
• 5+ years of experience in Supply Planning, IBP, S&OP, or related processes
• 3+ years of people leadership experience
• Proven experience leading supply planning processes; experience in FMCG, food and beverage, consumer goods, or another fast-moving industry is preferred
• 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 an equivalent platform, along with strong business intelligence and Excel capabilities
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Ability to travel approximately 4–6 times per year within the requirements of the role

Nice to have:

• You feel connected to our mission of encouraging health, sustainability, and transparency
• You are a self-starter who doesn't need direct supervision to motivate you for success
• You are ready to make your mark in a smaller, growing brand, leveraging your experience to deliver amazing results and build an outstanding company
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit in that you're comfortable with ambiguity and are energized by the process of building something lasting from the ground up
• You enjoy sharing your quirkiness and talents with your coworkers

Benefits:

• Flexible vacation
• Great benefits, including pet insurance
• Paid volunteer days off throughout the year
• Free oatmilk
• Good coworkers who are rooting for each other and the company to thrive

Salary: Our good-faith estimate for base salary is $115,000.