Demand and Supply Planning Manager

Oxide Computer Company • Remote • 2w ago

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.

As a Demand and Supply Planning Manager at Oxide, you will:

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.

You will thrive in this role if you:

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.

Before applying for this role, you should:

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.

Life at Oxide

We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:

Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.