Director of Planning

Who You Are

• A strategic, hands-on planning leader with deep experience in demand, supply, and materials planning within a fast-growth CPG environment.
• Experience building or scaling a planning organization, comfortable developing long-term planning strategies and solving daily operational challenges.
• Possesses strong analytical capability, financial acumen, and process excellence, paired with the agility and resourcefulness required in a small, rapidly evolving business.
• Known as a collaborative cross-functional partner, an effective communicator, and a proactive problem solver who thrives in ambiguity and leads teams through growth, change, and increasing complexity.
• A builder of systems, processes, talent, and the future-state planning capability of the organization.

The Task At Hand

• Leads all demand, supply, and materials planning for a fast-growing company, building the processes, systems, and team capabilities required to support scale and operational excellence.
• Owns the end-to-end planning cycle, integrating forecasts, production plans, material readiness, contracts, and supplier-managed inventory programs to ensure service, cost, and inventory targets are met.
• Drives cross-functional alignments across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Procurement, R&D, and Finance while overseeing a dynamic co-manufacturing and supplier network.
• In addition to managing daily execution, this leader builds scalable tools and processes, develops talent, leads risk and scenario planning, and shapes the long-range capacity and network strategy needed to support innovation and sustained growth.