Demand and Supply Planning Manager

Are you a planning leader who thrives on bringing order to chaos, developing processes and tools, and collaborating with a multi-disciplined team to align on a plan? Oxide is in a period of exceptional momentum and growth. We need demand and supply planning processes that enable our operations to efficiently scale with customer demand. We’re looking for a Demand & Supply Planning Manager to own our operational forecast, align that demand signal with key partners, and implement a process to efficiently communicate the plan of record. You’ll be the connective tissue between sales, finance, operations, and our contract manufacturing partners – making sure we know what to build and when to build it.

• Generate and publish our master production schedule (MPS) that will drive our supply chain.

• Work with sales and finance teams to ensure data consistency across multiple systems (SFDC, ERP).

• Establish methodology to reflect confirmed orders, pipeline deals, and baseline forecasts in a consolidated demand signal.

• Ensure forecast provides visibility by configuration for items that drive long lead time material decisions or significant impact to manufacturing resources.

• Define and implement a materials requirement planning process to ensure we are clear to build to meet customer commitments.

• Maintain our existing item master list and ensure data integrity during ERP implementation.

• Improve our existing process materials planning process to factor in alternate part numbers, configurable products, and design revisions.

• Refine our sales & operations planning process by defining roles & responsibilities, the review cadence, and defining key inputs & outputs.

• Have experience in demand, supply, and materials planning for complex electronics

• Are familiar with contract manufacturers in the electronics industry and how to align production schedules across their internal teams

• Enjoy ideation, implementation, and iteration of new processes and tools to align plans across groups and organizations.

• Understand the goals of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) with experience planning across multiple time horizons.

• Balance ambiguity and conflicting inputs to make the optimal plan.

• Possess the discipline to define and execute on set cadences while holding stakeholders accountable to their deliverables.

• Have the technical and analytical skills required to understand complex demand scenarios, supply constraints, and material dependencies in a rapidly changing environment.

• Believe in fully documenting your ideas & enjoy reading the documentation produced by others.

• Learn enough about our product to understand our approach.

• Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.

• Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.

• Listen to some of our operations-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:

  • Scaling Manufacturing about our experience rapidly ramping our manufacturing and supply chain.

  • Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 to hear about how everything came together for our first customer shipment.

  • Integrating Hardware and Software Teams on the benefits of having hardware and software engineers working together.

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