Demand Planner in Toronto

Olli Brands Inc. is a GMP-track cannabis edibles manufacturer. The Demand Planner owns the planning cycle end to end: taking Commercial’s forecast, exploding it to materials and components, netting it against on-hand and on-order, testing it against finite capacity, and publishing a constraint list on which every line carries a named owner and a date. The output is a single agreed number and a published production sequence — not a forecast that has never been tested against what the plant and the supply base can actually do.

The role sits in Operations, reporting to the Operations Manager, and drives the planning lane across six lanes — Commercial, Planning, Purchasing, Inventory Control, Production and Scheduling, and Warehouse and Shipping. It suits someone who runs a cadence without being chased — who will publish an incomplete list on time with its gaps named rather than a complete one late, and who is willing to say out loud that Commercial’s number and Operations’ number do not reconcile.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the weekly planning cycle and hold it to its dates: refresh the demand number, explode and net it to materials and components, test it against capacity, and publish the constraint list.
• Publish a constraint list on which every line carries a named owner and a date, chase owners for their answers, and publish on time with the gaps named rather than late and complete.
• Run the review at which the open constraints are decided, record each decision against its owner, and publish the committed production sequence the same day.
• Run the daily attainment review — plan against actual, with a reason code against every miss.
• Maintain the three planning horizons and confirm the horizon stays longer than the longest live packaging lead time.
• Own the monthly cycle: demand review with Commercial, supply review with Operations, reconciliation of the two, and one signed number; escalate to the CEO when the two cannot be reconciled.
• Own the capacity model as the cycle’s single critical input.
• Maintain the planning data the cycle depends on with Inventory Control, Quality and new product development.
• Maintain and report the planning measures at the monthly review.
• Act as planning process owner through the ERP and MES implementation.

Required Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in supply chain, operations, engineering or business, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in demand planning, S&OP, master scheduling or production planning in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of a planning cadence that other functions were held to.
• Able to explode a forecast through a bill of material, net it against on-hand and on-order, constrain it against finite capacity.
• Advanced Excel skills, including modelling capacity and lead-time coverage.
• Willing to publish a number that names its own gaps.
• Available on-site 5 days, with the fixed days and times of the cycle taking precedence over ad-hoc demands.

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensed cannabis, food or natural health product manufacturing experience.
• Experience standing a planning process up.
• CPIM, CSCP or equivalent ASCM/APICS designation, held or in progress.
• Experience as planning process owner through an ERP or MES implementation.
• Daily visual management and reason-code discipline on a production floor.
• Cadence discipline — the file lands on the day and at the hour, every week.
• Numerate transparency — shows the arithmetic and the assumptions.
• Constructive friction — says what Commercial and Operations do not want to hear.
• Follow-through — carries a problem to a person with a date on it.
• Systems thinking — sees the second-order effect of a sequence change before it is published.
• Composure — keeps the cycle running while the plan underneath it moves.

Working Conditions

Primarily office-based on an active cannabis edibles manufacturing site, with daily time on the production floor, at the visual management board, and in the warehouse. Gowning and PPE as required by area, with full compliance to GMP, sanitation and personal-hygiene requirements and to the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act. Site access and personnel screening are governed by Olli’s cannabis licence.