# Manager, Supply Planner **Company**: Oatly AB **Location**: United States, United States **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $115,000 **Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain **Industry**: Food **Apply**: https://careers.oatly.com/jobs/8712818-manager-supply-planner?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/manager-supply-planner-e54e0797-3a9/ ## Description 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. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Supply Chain Management - Business - Economics - Engineering - Anaplan - SAP IBP - OMP - Kinaxis - Excel ### Nice to have - FMCG - food and beverage - consumer goods --- Source: [Apply at careers.oatly.com](https://careers.oatly.com/jobs/8712818-manager-supply-planner?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)