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Director of Planning

UKRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Feb 2026

💰 $200,000/yr($150,000/yr – $200,000/yr)

About the role

Who You Are: You are a strategic, hands-on planning leader with deep experience in demand, supply, and materials planning within a fast-growth CPG environment. You have built or scaled a planning organization before and are equally comfortable developing long-term planning strategies and rolling up your sleeves to solve daily operational challenges. You bring 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. Above all, you are a builder: of systems, processes, talent, and the future-state planning capability of the organization. The Task At Hand: The Director of Planning 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. This role 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. The Director 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.

In This Role You Will:

Leadership & Organizational Development
Build, develop, and inspire a high-performing, end-to-end planning organization across Demand, Supply, and Materials Planning, setting clear expectations, cultivating accountability, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Provide strategic direction, coaching, and structured career development to planners and planning leaders, ensuring the team has the skills, tools, and support needed to scale with the business.
Establish the planning organization’s operating model-defining roles, responsibilities, workflows, governance, and cross-functional interfaces to ensure seamless execution.
Champion change management related to system upgrades, process maturation, network expansion, and the planning discipline expected of a newly public company.
Create a culture of analytical excellence, proactive problem-solving, and cross-functional partnership, enabling the team to influence decisions across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Executive Leadership.
Drive talent capability building in forecasting, scenario planning, analytics, communication, and integrated planning processes to support both short-term performance and long-term organizational growth.
Integrated Planning and Systems (S&OP/IBP)
Support an S&OP/IBP process that improves cross-functional alignment and drives clearer decision-making in a rapidly changing environment.
Connect demand and supply plans to provide predictable, reliable signals for operations and commercial teams.
Lead the rollout and evolution of planning tools and systems, balancing the need for better analytics with the realities of a small, fast-moving team.
Demand Planning
Build scalable forecasting capabilities—including statistical tools, AI/ML, and structured cross-functional inputs—to enhance demand signal reliability across channels and customers.
Drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy through disciplined review cycles, root-cause analysis, and effective collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Commercial partners.
Own the demand planning pillar of the S&OP/IBP process, ensuring transparency, actionable scenarios, and clear recommendations for executive decision-making.
Supply Planning
Execute a scalable supply plan that balances service, cost, inventory, and capacity across a fast-growing, multi-node co-manufacturing network.
Implement robust capacity planning, scenario modeling, and constraint-based planning tools to guide short-, mid-, and long-range decisions.
Partner with Operations, Procurement, and Commercialization to anticipate constraints, mitigate supply risks, and ensure production plans are fully aligned with demand priorities, innovation timelines, and network capabilities.
Communicate supply risks, trade-offs, and service implications clearly and proactively to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Lead continuous improvement efforts to enha