Strategic Lead, Materials Planning Transformation

Oura; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Employee discounts

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

ŌURA is seeking a Strategic Lead, Materials Planning Transformation, to redesign planning end-to-end with an AI-first approach. You will collaborate across Supply Chain, IT, Finance, and Product, driving a data-driven transformation that shifts focus from data handling to analysis and decision support.

This hybrid San Francisco role offers leadership across global teams and impactful strategic influence. You will define the multi-year roadmap, build the business case for automation, and govern

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Supply Chain / Materials Planning or related field.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives at scale.
• Hands-on experience applying AI, automation, or analytics to workflows.

Responsibilities

• Reimagine Materials Planning and set a multi-year roadmap.
• Define vision to shift planners from data handling to analysis and decision-making.
• Adopt an AI-first approach to redesign processes and roles.
• Move toward proactive, exception-based planning and decision support.
• Build the business case, sequence work, and scale successes.
• Evaluate Build-vs-Buy for tools and systems with governance.
• Lead vendor evaluations, pilots, and total-cost analysis.
• Collaborate with IT, Data/Analytics, and Engineering to build internal solutions.
• Set standards for AI usage in planning including validation and oversight.
• Design and roll out standardized planning processes across CMs and suppliers.
• Identify and implement automation across the planning lifecycle.
• Establish governance and change management to sustain improvements.
• Develop a metrics framework and report progress to leadership.
• Track outcomes: capacity, cycle times, and supply visibility.
• Influence senior and executive leadership with strategy and results.

Skills

Supply Chain leadership

Materials Planning

AI/automation in operations

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor management

ERP/MRP knowledge

Tools

Excel

MRP systems

ERP systems

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 the company 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 the company. 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-driven planning

This is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office.

What you'll bring

• 12+ years of experience in Supply Chain / Materials Planning or a related field, including experience leading cross-functional or cross-organizational initiatives at scale

• Experience in consumer electronics and/or hardware companies, with deep hands-on experience in materials planning, CTB, and allocation

• Extensive experience working with Contract Manufacturers (CMs), including driving data, reporting, or process standards across external partners

• Track record of designing and implementing process improvements or automation that measurably changed how a team works

• Hands-on experience applying AI, automation, or analytics tools to operational workflows, and sound judgment about what to automate, what to keep human, and how to validate outputs

• Experience evaluating, selecting, and implementing software or systems solutions, including build-vs-buy analysis and vendor management

• Strong data fluency: advanced Excel and comfort with large, messy, multi-source datasets; ability to define metrics and build baselines

• In-depth knowledge of MRP and ERP systems and how planning data flows through them

• Ability to operate with ambiguity and set direction without a predefined playbook, and to build consensus and drive adoption without direct authority

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to senior and executive audiences

Benefits

At Ōura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Ōura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages

• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources

• An Ōura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family

• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off

• Paid sick leave and parental leave

Ōura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Region 1 $200,000-$236,000

Region 2 $182,750-$215,000

Region 3 $164,900-$194,000

A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location.

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).

ŌURA is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at ŌURA are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related me