Seed Supply Operations Lead

The role

The Seed Supply Operations Lead will plan and manage seed production and supply to connect production, R&D, Commercial, and customer delivery. This person will establish processes, data, systems, and decision rules to connect bioreactor output through seed delivery.

What you will do

• Build a planning model connecting demand, production capacity, yield, batch timing, quality, inventory, logistics, and customer commitments.
• Establish practical short-, medium-, and long-range planning and decision processes.
• Create a dependable view of available and projected supply.
• Model the effect of changes in demand, yield, capacity, batch timing, quality release, and logistics.
• Identify and deploy specific uses of AI, machine learning, and automation across planning workflows.
• Define the planning data model and the flow of information from source systems.
• Establish a way to detect, prioritize, assign, and resolve issues like supply shortfalls and batch delays.
• Bring Production & Supply, R&D, and Commercial together around shared assumptions and plans.
• Define and review measures such as forecast accuracy, supply reliability, and inventory exposure.
• Develop processes, documentation, skills, and team structure needed for planning to scale.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in supply, demand, production, or integrated planning.
• Evidence of designing and deploying a data-driven or AI-enabled operational workflow.
• Strong understanding of capacity, inventory, demand, and service trade-offs.
• Comfortable working with biological or process variability.
• Strong systems and data fluency.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership.
• Comfortable building in an early-stage, fast-moving company.
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations, engineering, a quantitative discipline, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in agribusiness, seed production, biotechnology, biomanufacturing, or another supply chain with uncertain yields and quality release requirements.
• Experience designing AI agents, copilots, or automated workflows for planning or operations.
• Experience with production scale-up, batch variability, and the transition from pilot operations to commercial volumes.
• Experience building demand-sensing, statistical forecasting, or scenario models.
• APICS/ASCM certification, such as CPIM, CSCP, or CPF, or equivalent experience.

About the company

Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties to help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources. Their Boosted Breeding™ technology aims to transform global agriculture.