Manager, Demand Planner
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Demand Planning Manager leading North America demand forecasts and IBP for Oatly, the oatmilk company. Driving analytics, scenario planning, and cross-functional decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- 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
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