Full time Permanent Associate

Posted 23 Oct 2026

Description

Role Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

- 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.

Required Qualifications

- 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, S&OP;, master scheduling or production planning in a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated ownership of a planning cadence that other functions were held to — a weekly cycle with published outputs and named owners, not a forecast file maintained in isolation.
- Able to explode a forecast through a bill of material, net it against on-hand and on-order, constrain it against finite capacity, and explain the arithmetic to someone who disputes it.
- Advanced Excel, including modelling capacity and lead-time coverage; working knowledge of MRP/ERP planning — master production schedule, MRP, order policy and safety stock.
- Willing to publish a number that names its own gaps, and to tell Commercial and Operations when the two do not reconcile.
- 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, including excise stamps, artwork appr

📌 Demand Planner (Toronto)
🏢 Olli Brands
📍 Toronto