The role you're interested in... The Supply Planner is responsible for planning production with our contract manufacturers based on forecast and customer demand.
The work environment... So, what's it like to work here? If you're based in the greater Bay Area, you'll walk into our Emeryville office each Tuesday morning and start the in-person portion of our hybrid work week at our weekly all-company meeting and find close to 200 of your colleagues, some sitting with their dogs, talking excitedly through the week ahead and watching a newer teammate tell their personal life and career journey followed by a quick update on any hot topics that might be relevant to the week ahead.
We are a dynamic, HYBRID workplace, with an expectation that all employees come into the office Tuesday through Thursday. We are very intentional about connecting in person for things like innovation, impromptu collaboration, having respectful challenges to get to better decisions, leadership role-modeling, and culture building. Great work cultures are built on stories about what great looks like in practice, and great stories during virtual meetings just don't happen. The expected pay scale for this role is $90K to $100K, which may vary based on relevant experience, qualifications, geographic area (if applicable), and internal equity for the role.
At the beginning of 2026, we moved into our massive modern 133,000 square foot headquarters in Emeryville, California, complete with spacious personal workspaces, gym with rock-climbing wall, a café, free onsite parking, tons of greenery, and many transportation options.
You're excited about this opportunity because your time will be filled with...Supply Planning: 80% of Time
- Create and maintain production schedules that support demand forecasts, ensuring that customer service levels and inventory performance targets are met.
- Implement production schedules with contract manufacturers within the limits of their line availability, lead time and minimum run sizes.
- Conducts regular production meetings with contract manufacturers to ensure strong communication with business partners.
- Resolves minor production scheduling issues and problems, referring major issues to the appropriate managers.
- Determines and sets up planning parameters within the MRP system - safety stock, lead time, lot sizes, time fences - based on various inputs gathered from the contract manufacturers and Demand Plan.
- Executes supply planning related to product launches and transitions:
- Creates the necessary purchase orders for finished goods and/or materials to ensure project timelines are met
- Communicates with the contract manufacturers on materials delivery dates and start of production timing.
- Communicates updates in the project teams on production timing and any issues
- Participates in IBP Supply Review, creating presentations that:
- Communicating R&O to plan
- Highlights co-man constrains or opportunities.
Inventory Management: 20% of Time
- Weekly reconciliation of co-man invoice discrepancies.
- Regularly review aging inventory to ensure aging lots are captured on the Excess report.
- Maintain updated item statuses in the Premier system.
- Assist Materials Planner in all packaging transitions.
What are we looking for?Education:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Experience:
- 3+ years of experience operating in a Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) environment in areas of inventory control, production scheduling, master scheduling, demand management, capacity management, materials management, or distribution resource planning; preferably in the food or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.
- Integrated planning systems training and experience in ERP/DRP/MRP is required.
Skills and mindset:
- Broad knowledge and experience of supply chain processes and planning systems,
- Exceptional quantitative and analytical skills,
- Demonstrated sound business judgment and initiative,
- Self-directed, with the ability to communicate findings,
- Ability to manage many details with a high level of accuracy,
- Comfortable working with individuals at all organizational levels,
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Star performance demonstrated in previous employment.
What the work is like:
- You'll spend a significant portion of your day working on a computer, reviewing data, creating reports, communicating with partners, and joining virtual and in-person meetings
- This role requires frequent and ongoing use of a keyboard, mouse, phone, and other office technology
- You'll regularly navigate multiple systems at once, analyze detailed information, and shift between competing priorities and deadlines
- You'll communicate regularly with team members, cross-functional partners, external partners, and leaders through meetings, Outlook based email, messaging platforms such as Microsoft Teams, and presentations
- Occasional movement around the office may be required for meetings, collaboration, and team activities
- May occasionally lift or move office materials weighing up to 10 pounds
So, if after reading through this long list you're thinking-I'm not sure I meet 100% of these requirements, should I still apply? YES-if you embody a growth mindset, see challenges as opportunities to develop, and find innovative ways to get the real work that matters done, you sound like our kind of candidate!
The 5 capabilities or mindsets most relevant to this role:
- Drive and own results
- Learning & growth mindset
- Radical Candor (i.e., care personally and challenge directly)
- Embody a strategic mindset
- Bring people along
You will thrive here and may just do the best work of your life if...
- You can be flexible in your approach to people challenges and abandon past practices if they don't make sense or would lead to a poor outcome
- You are comfortable being natural, casual, open, and even a bit playful at work
- You don't have a big ego and hate siloed thinking
- You like to get sh*t, I mean-stuff done
- You can be friendly, vulnerable, and self-deprecating in one moment, and deal with a challenging, delicate people-related matter as a professional in the next
- You can do periods of focused, deep work on projects that drive the needle
This may not be your ideal next career move if...
- ...You like a lot of structure, rules, and uniformity
- ...You like hierarchy, command and control management
- ...Dealing with ambiguity or experimentation is not your jam
- ...You try to resolve challenging interpersonal situations over instant messaging or passive aggression
- ...You like managing from your house with your camera off and demonstrating excellence through email
Here's the deal with our not-so-standard, um...standard interview process because we know you are the curious type, which is why you're still reading this... - Quick 30 min phone chat with a high energy member of our Talent Acquisition team to do a quick overview of your background and answer any burning questions you have
- Team interviews are kept to a minimum to foster a more efficient, candidate-friendly process (too many interviewers yields little value and drags out the process for you-and who wants that, right?):
- A short series of in-person or video interviews in a 1:1 setting; these are usually with the hiring manager, one or two other team members, and a person from another team to get broader perspectives (note: we don't do panel interviews because they don't give interviewers a chance to ask you unique questions, and we assign interviewers different roles so we're probing different capabilities)
- A case study or job task to simulate what you'd actually be doing in the role might be included (since your job is not actually to be interviewed for a living, why is that the thing companies rely on so much?) Yes, there will be a small panel for this one so you don't have to do it more than once, and yes, they might ask you some kind yet probing questions at the end after the raucous applause stops.
- Once your interview concludes, the team will meet for an in-depth consultative process to ensure we are hiring the right person for the right job. Interviewers must come in with a strong yes or no vote beforehand to avoid groupthink with supporting reasons. The collective thoughts on your candidacy will be discussed in an environment of safety to challenge ideas respectfully, debate. and be open to all important qualifications of the candidates. A trained, disinterested bias blocker will be present to help mitigate bias so the team can make a sound hiring decision. The moment of truth arrives when the hiring manager makes the big decision. If you nailed the interviews and the case study was brilliant, guess what? The offer is all yours! And the ball is in your court. Will you accept? We sure hope so, because this place is the real deal, and don't just believe us-just ask the 91% of our people who said this is a great place to work in our most recent employee survey.
