Hello potential future Oatly employee. It’s us, the original oatmilk company that started in Sweden back 25 or so years ago and has since expanded to the U.S. where we’ve continued growing at a rate such that we need more brilliant minds to come work with us to keep the momentum going and the oatmilk flowing.
Sustainability, health, and transparency are the core values that guide everything we do. Basically, we exist to help people live a healthier life without recklessly taxing the planet’s resources in the process, and to change the food system for the better. We drive that change through the power of oats and through a significant reduction in cow’s milk consumption. If any of this resonates with you, then maybe you’d like to work for Oatly, too. Now onto the formal stuff.
We are looking for a Manager, Demand Planning, North America to lead the North America Demand Planning function and deliver a robust, consensus-based demand plan that supports business growth, service excellence, inventory optimization, and profitable decision-making.
This role owns the end-to-end demand planning process across a 12–48-month horizon and plays a critical leadership role within the company’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process. Acting as the bridge between Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, Portfolio, and Operations teams, the Demand Planning Manager ensures market intelligence, commercial assumptions, and statistical forecasts are translated into a realistic and actionable demand plan that represents the "truth as we know it."
The position leads a team of Demand Planners, drives forecast performance improvement, facilitates commercial reviews, and develops scenario-based recommendations to support executive decision-making.
Here are the things we want to hire you to do:
Demand Planning Leadership
Lead the North America Demand Planning team and establish a high-performing, data-driven planning organization
Own the development and maintenance of the regional demand plan across all channels, customers, and product categories
Ensure demand plans reflect commercial strategies, promotional activities, customer developments, portfolio initiatives, and market intelligence
Create a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and analytical excellence throughout the commercial & demand planning team
Forecasting & Analytics
Lead the development of statistical and judgmental forecasting methodologies
Monitor and improve Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, and forecast value-add metrics
Utilize advanced analytics, market data, customer insights, and business intelligence tools to identify trends and risks
Develop scenario planning capabilities to evaluate the impact of market changes, supply constraints, customer actions, product launches, and promotional activities
Drive root cause analyses to continuously improve forecast performance and business decision quality
Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Lead the Demand Review process as part of the monthly IBP cycle
Facilitate cross-functional consensus planning discussions with Commercial, Finance, Supply Planning, and Portfolio teams
Translate market assumptions into a credible demand outlook covering volume, revenue, and margin expectations
Identify demand risks and opportunities and proactively develop mitigation and gap-closing plans
Present demand insights, scenarios, and recommendations to senior leadership teams
Challenge assumptions where appropriate to ensure a realistic and unbiased forecast
Work closely with regional IBP Lead to drive alignment between the demand plan, financial outlook, and supply capabilities
Process Excellence & Digitalization
Champion continuous improvement of forecasting processes, planning governance, and planning capabilities
Drive adoption and optimization of planning technologies including Anaplan, Power BI, AI forecasting, and advanced planning tools
Improve data quality, planning parameter governance, and reporting automation
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