Senior NPI Materials Planner

Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND-01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.

We are hiring a Senior NPI Materials Planner to own material readiness for our prototype and early production builds. You will take the demand and build plan, turn it into a clear, prioritised material and purchasing plan, and make sure Procurement can deliver against it. Where supply cannot meet demand, you will say so early and bring options. You will answer one question for the business: what material and configuration is actually available to build?

You will work side by side with the Demand and Production Planner, who decides what we build and when given material availability, priorities and capacity, and with the Production Supervisor, who confirms the workshop can execute that sequence with the people and equipment available. You will report to the Senior Manager - WILP and work closely with Procurement, Engineering and the Business Transformation team across London, Boston and Vancouver.

This is a hands-on senior role in a business moving from prototype builds to production. We are building our planning capability as we go, with design changes landing every six weeks, so you will need to be comfortable making good decisions with incomplete information. Your job is to make sure the supply base is ready for the plan, and to give the plan an honest view of what the supply base can do.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Build and own Humanoid’s buy-side material planning approach: how production demand is translated into purchasing requirements, including planning parameters, lead-time management, safety stock and order policies. This includes making it work now with the tools we have (spreadsheets, BI and AI-assisted analysis), setting out the path to a proper MRP / ERP as we scale, and helping define what it must do.

• Own material readiness for the builds from engineering release through to parts on the shelf, working with the Buyers who engage suppliers and place orders, so there is one clear owner for whether material will be there when the build needs it.

• Set up the demand-to-supply interface with the Demand and Production Planner: the cadence, the handover of forecast and build plan, change-freeze rules, and shared ownership of plan accuracy.

• Feed supply constraints (material availability, constrained parts, supplier capacity) into the S&OP cycle, so the build plan reflects what can actually be supplied.

• Agree the planning strategy for long-lead, single-source and critical components with Procurement, including forward buys, buffer stock, call-offs, blanket orders and supplier-held stock.

• Work with the Business Transformation team on the planning tools and data we need, whether that is the manufacturing systems, spreadsheets and BI we use today or a future ERP / MRP, so the tooling keeps pace as we scale.

• Build a repeatable material planning framework that copes with a changing BOM, frequent ECOs and the move from prototype to production volumes.

• Plan to a six-week design and build cadence: decide which parts to buy early, which to hold until a design is proven, and re-plan at each engineering release.

• Prepare the material plan for Gamma and a contract manufacturing partner, including how plans, forecasts and any supplier-held or consigned stock are handed over.

Operational Responsibilities

• Run MRP-style planning on a regular rhythm, in the ERP or in the tools we use today, and…