Product Manager - Supply Planning

Supply planning connects demand to what a business can actually make, source and deploy. The role seeks someone who has worked as a planner, understands advanced planning systems, and wants to bring that experience into building a better planning product. The opening focuses on supply planning, with demand-planning breadth valuable alongside it. Lyric is an enterprise AI platform built specifically for supply chains. The role is working toward a supply-planning capability that reflects real operating constraints, earns planner trust and can be reused beyond a single implementation. The initial product area, roadmap and success measures will be agreed with planning leadership.

Responsibilities

Understand planner problems in manufacturing and supply networks, including material and capacity constraints, production, inventory and deployment decisions; Translate recurring problems into product requirements and reusable capabilities, distinguishing shared planning patterns from customer-specific configuration; Work with planners and engineering to make constraints, scenarios, exceptions and overrides understandable and useful in the product; Contribute to prioritization, roadmap choices, validation and adoption, connecting product decisions to the operational outcomes they should improve; Explore where AI-assisted planning can reduce manual effort while preserving the explanation and control needed for consequential decisions

Requirements

Prior hands-on experience as a planner, with specific examples of the decisions owned; Experience implementing or working with APS vendors and an understanding of the planning problem beneath the software; Relevant progression into consulting, product management or a combination of the two; Supply-planning depth relevant to this opening, with breadth across demand and supply valued; Ability to connect tools, planning logic and business strategy, and explain why a decision or design should change; Clear communication with planners and technical partners, with interest in turning operating expertise into a reusable product

Nice to have

A combination of consulting and product experience, taking planning knowledge across multiple customers; Experience with constrained planning, production scheduling, deployment, inventory optimization or order promising; Examples of a reusable planning model, template, workflow or product capability emerging from recurring customer needs; Thoughtful experimentation with AI-assisted planning, including where human review and explanation remain important