[Hiring] Demand Planning Manager @Oatly AB

Role Description

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.

• 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.
  • Lead initiatives that strengthen planning maturity and support the long-term IBP roadmap.
• Leadership & Talent Development
  • Work actively on coaching, mentorship, and developing Demand Planners in accordance with Oatly´s High-Performing team culture & mentality.
  • Establish clear performance expectations and development plans.
  • Strengthen planning capabilities through training, best-practice sharing, and continuous learning.
  • Build succession plans and future planning capabilities across the North American organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of Demand Planning, IBP, S&OP or Commercial Planning.
• 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 with strong BI utilization & Excel capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Ability to travel 25%.

Benefits

• Flexible vacation (take it when you need it).
• Great benefits (including pet insurance).
• Paid volunteer days off throughout the year.
• Free six packs of oatmilk.
• Supportive coworkers who are rooting for each other and the company to thrive.
• Nimble and agile work environment.

Company Description

Oatly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.