Demand Planner

Full-time Permanent Associate

Posted 23 Oct 2026

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 is a peer to the Purchasing Specialist: the plan is this role’s, the purchase order is theirs. 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.

• Own the weekly planning cycle and hold it to its dates: refresh the demand number [Wednesday], explode and net it to materials and components [Thursday am], test it against capacity [Thursday pm], and publish the constraint list by [Friday 12:00].
• Publish a constraint list on which every line carries a named owner and a date, chase owners for their answers [Friday pm to Monday am], and publish on time with the gaps named rather than late and complete.
• Run the [Monday] review at which the open constraints are decided, record each decision against its owner, and publish the committed production sequence the same day [Monday pm].
• Run the daily [10-minute] attainment review — plan against actual, with a reason code against every miss — and keep the reason-code set small enough to be used and specific enough to be acted on.
• Maintain the three planning horizons and who owns each — [3–12 months] with Commercial, [2–13 weeks] netted and capacity-tested, and the current week committed — and confirm the horizon stays longer than the longest live packaging lead time, including artwork approval and excise stamp issuance.
• Own the monthly cycle: demand review with Commercial, supply review with Operations, reconciliation of the two, and one signed number; escalatu to [the CEO] when the two cannot be reconciled.
• Own the capacity model as the cycle’s single critical input — one named active workbook, with run rates, changeover times and available hours by line kept current — and do not run the capacity test against a model nobody owns.
• Maintain the planning data the cycle depends on with Inventory Control, Quality and new product development — bills of material for the top [25] SKUs, item master records and product data sheets for every live SKU — and ensure new and multipack SKUs enter the plan at launch gate, with packaging, artwork and excise lead times attached, rather than after their first order.
• Maintain and report the planning measures — forecast accuracy and bias, plan attainment, constraint-list ageing and closure, and inventory cover against target — at the [monthly] review.
• Act as planning process owner through the ERP and MES implementation, take part in root cause analysis and Kaizen where a planning miss is a cause, and work to GMP, site security and Ontario OHSA requirements at all times.

• Post-secondary education in supply chain, operations, engineering or business, or equivalent experience; able to pass the site screening required under Olli’s cannabis licence.
• 5+ years in demand planning,…