Demand & Supply Planning Manager
Lambda — San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid · Senior · $100k - $150k/yearly
Role description
Role Overview
The Demand & Supply Planning Manager will own the planning process that connects customer needs with supplier capabilities, building and maintaining demand forecasts, translating them into supply and build plans, and balancing capacity and inventory against deployment schedules.
What You Will Do
The ideal candidate will have planned complex, long-lead-time hardware in a high-growth environment, building and maintaining forecast models, assumptions, and scenarios, and tracking forecast accuracy and bias over time.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The successful candidate will be comfortable pressure-testing a forecast, building a supply plan from the bill of materials up, running a rigorous S&OP cycle, and telling leadership clearly where the risks are and what trade-offs are on the table.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Supply Chain, or Materials Planning for hardware
- Demonstrated experience building demand forecasts and translating them into supply, build, and inventory plans in a long-lead-time, supply-constrained environment
- Strong understanding of BOM structures, lead times, and how component constraints flow through to finished-goods availability
- Experience working with ODMs, OEMs, or contract manufacturers on capacity, build schedules, and ramp planning
- Hands-on experience running or contributing to S&OP or an equivalent integrated planning process
- Strong analytical and financial acumen, with the ability to combine mathematical models and advanced spreadsheet skills
- Experience with ERP and planning systems and a track record of improving planning processes and tooling
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, drive alignment across functions, and communicate risk and trade-offs clearly
Benefits
- Generous cash & equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use