Strategic Lead, Materials Planning Transformation

Job description

Our mission at ŌURA is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles. Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. We are reimagining how Materials Planning works at Oura. As the Strategic Lead, Materials Planning Transformation, you will lead that redesign. You will take an AI-first approach to rethinking the planning function end to end: how data comes in from Contract Manufacturers (CMs) and suppliers, how issues are found, and how decisions get made. You are a materials planning expert and a builder of process, workflow, and tooling who can set direction for the function and bring a broad set of partners along.This is an IC role. You will operate with significant autonomy, own outcomes for the function rather than for a single program, and influence leaders across Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, IT, and Product. What You Will Do: • Reimagine Materials Planning • Define the vision and multi-year roadmap for how Materials Planning should operate, with the goal of shifting planner time from data handling and follow-up to analysis, judgment, and decision-making • Take an AI-first approach: start from what AI and automation can do, and redesign processes and roles around it rather than layering tools onto today's workflows • Move the function toward proactive, exception-based planning and, over time, toward decision support where analysis and recommendations are prepared for human review • Build the business case, sequence the work, and use results to decide what to scale, change, or stop • Evaluate Build vs. Buy for Tools and Systems • Assess the software, tool, and systems landscape for planning, data integration, and supply chain visibility, including AI-enabled solutions • Lead build-vs-buy decisions: define requirements, run vendor evaluations and pilots, and weigh total cost, time to value, integration effort, security and data governance, and long-term maintainability • Partner with IT, Data/Analytics, and Engineering to build internal solutions where they are the better choice, and to integrate all solutions with our ERP and supply chain planning systems • Set the standards for how AI is used in planning, including data quality, validation of outputs, human oversight, and auditability • Process Development and Workflow Automation • Design, document, and roll out standardized planning processes and workflows across CMs, suppliers, and internal teams • Identify, prioritize, and implement automation opportunities across the planning lifecycle, from data intake and validation to alerting, follow-up, and reporting • Establish governance, ownership, and change management so improvements hold as programs, partners, and volumes change • Metrics and Impact • Develop the metrics framework for the transformation, including a baseline of how planning time is spent today, and report progress to Supply Chain leadership • Track both the health of the changes (data quality, automation coverage, adoption) and their business outcomes (planner capacity, issue detection lead time, cycle times, supply visibility, E&O and liability exposure) • Materials Planning Expertise and Influence • Serve as a functional expert on Clear-to-Build (CTB), supply availability, inventory, allocation for constrained materials, and E&O and liability management, and use that expertise to decide what the tools and processes should do • Test new approaches against live NPI and sustaining programs, and support supply chain readiness through program launches and EOL • Align CMs, suppliers, and cross-functional partners around new ways of working, and present strategy and results to senior and executive leadership • Coach and enable planners through change, and mentor other program managers on process design, automation, and data-driv