Global Supply Planning Manager-CA
Posted: January 08, 2024
Role: Global Supply Planning Manager
Team: Supply Planning
Scope: Manger, M4
Years of Experience: 5+
Location: Ventura, CA
The Global Supply Planning Manager plays a key role in supporting the Supply Planning team. They will be responsible for a team of Supply Planners to ensure that finished good receipt plans are created to best meet the inventory requirements of global customers across multiple selling channels. The Global Supply Planning Manager interacts and communicates with Demand Planning, Global Planning, Finance, Product, IT and Production teams to identify inventory trends and constraints.
What You’ll Do
Analytic Duties
- Analyze inventory trends and make suggestions to prioritize, expedite or delay open supplier PO’s.
- Proactively partner with Production and Regional Teams to report product and material availability issues for an assigned subset of styles.
- Support key stakeholders with weekly and monthly reporting.
- Conduct ad-hoc inventory analysis as needed.
Operational
- Develop and lead team of Global Supply Planners.
- Determine global supply buy quantities using forecast, open orders, supply landscape and trend analysis for a subset of styles.
- Support Sublevel PO process for assigned categories.
- Identify scenarios when it may be necessary to buy additional product to meet MOQ’s and advise product surcharge options.
- Performs ad-hoc duties as needed to support the Supply Planning Team.
- Ensuring Planning and purchasing practices do not negatively impact working conditions within our supply chain.
Who You Are
- Problem Solver – identifies problems in the supply chain and investigates potential solutions
- Adaptable – Able to work to an ever-changing global supply chain landscape
- Strategic – able to see the end goal, then identify and plan how to get there
- Investigative -has a natural curiosity to find they “why” and explain to others
- Communicative- able to take complex data and problems, and communicate to a larger audience
Experience You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain or related field required or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of work experience in a forecasting, merchandising, or supply planning environment.
- Success leading diverse teams (as a manager or supervisor) both directly and cross-functionally.
- Experience with large scale ERP or planning systems. Proficiency with MS D365 and PLM are desirable.
- Highly proficient with MS Office, especially MS Excel.
- Must have a general understanding of the upstream and downstream of supply chain process.
- Change management and leading through growth including system implementations and reorganizations.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Apparel and/or sporting goods experience preferred
- Ability to work cooperatively across multiple functions.
- Comfortable with team-based work structure; ability to demonstrate flexibility on the job.
Hiring Range: $140,00 to $160,000
Pay Range: $127,520 to $191,280