Sr Manager Global Supply Planning
Minneapolis, MN - USA
Job Summary
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education work experience and addition to your pay Target cares about and invests in you as a team member so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs which may include medical vision dental life insurance and more to help you and your family take care of your whole benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at Sr. Manager Global Supply Planning
About Us
Target is an iconic brand a Fortune 50 company and one of Americas leading retailers. At the heart of our success is our Owned Brand organization a dynamic team that designs develops and sources the products our guests love. From concept to creation to manufacturing we infuse trend quality and innovation into everything we do building brands that surprise and delight millions of consumers.
Global Supply Planning (GSP) designs plans and activates supply and inventory strategies that ensure reliability speed and flexibility while enabling sustainable growth for Target. As the upstream integrator GSP connects Planning Inventory Management Sourcing and production to provide visibility proactively manage supply risk and enable downstream partners to optimize innetwork inventory.
About the Role
As an Global Supply Planning Senior Manager Apparel you will serve as a strategic leader shaping and activating collaborative supply plans that deliver speed flexibility reliability and growth for Target Owned Brands. You will operate at the intersection of Planning & Inventory Management Sourcing and global vendor partners strategically aligning supply & capacity to merchant and sourcing strategies. You will support multiple divisions influence senior cross functional leaders and global teams to drive OB supply resilience inform sourcing decisions and enable enterprise level outcomes.
Core responsibilities:
- Develop and Execute Upstream Supply Strategies: Design and activate upstream supply and inventory strategies that ensure surety of supply and enable faster response to risk signals. Evaluate business context demand volatility lead times vendor capability and liability exposure to determine the right supply model (e.g. readandreact inventory stocking).
- Lead Long Range and Capacity Planning Deliver the 3-year OB plan that aligns merchant long range plans with sourcing strategies. Provide factory level capacity visibility where it matters most for sourcing PSQA and production governance. These plans providethestrategic foundation for investment decisions risk mitigation and supply continuity.
- Own Collaborative Supply Planning Partner with PIM Sourcing and vendors to create upstream supply strategies including order flow tactics stocking strategies safety stock postponement and read and react activation. Shape routines and communication cadences that align upstream production decisions with downstream receipt needs
- Enable Visibility through In Season Visibility: Provide timely visibility to production status call date milestones lead times constraints risks and WIP/finished goods positions to anticipate issues before they occur.
- Deliver Performance Reporting & Insights Create and maintain measurable KPIs connected to speed flexibility reliability and business impact ensuring strategy activation is grounded in data.
- Contribute to building and scaling Global Supply Planning in Owned Brands. Establish processes tools and operating models that elevate global supply planning as a strategic enabler. Own GSP deployment within your pyramid and drive capability iteration through ongoing feedback projects and captainships.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job flex to evolving business needs with agility as this new capability role ins performed in office 4 days per week in Minneapolis.
About you:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
- 6 years relevant sourcing planning inventory management and/or supply planning experience
- Strong strategic problem solving and analytical skills. Demonstrates ability to analyze large sets of data and insights to form a perspective to effectively problem solve and drive decisions.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills demonstrating ability to work effectively with local and overseas partners.
- Flexibility resiliency and nimbleness; comfortable with ambiguity and working in grey areas that are constantly changing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to engage cross-functional team story tell through data and keep partners informed.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills to manage competing deliverables and collaborate with and influence a broad group of partners and stakeholders.
Benefits Eligibility
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Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
1234 employees
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation. The eighth-largest retailer in the United States, it is a component of the S&P 500 Index.