Manager, Demand Planner

Job 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