Principal Global Supply Planner

Job Summary:
The Principal Supply Planner is responsible for pre-season creation and in-season execution and optimization of finished goods flow plan to enable demand fulfillment and stable production flow. Constraint management is a key focus, including lead times, capacity, minimums, transportation, and factory allocations. Works with cross-functional partners to manage, monitor, and balance purchase orders and physical inventory that results in minimal inventory risks and costs while providing exceptional customer satisfaction. Collaborates with regional demand to balance inventory levels and product availability to ensure targeted inventory and service levels. Leads process evolution and is responsible for innovating and improving business process, execution strategies, and supply chain analytics. Shows leadership and advocacy in the team and across the supply chain.

Responsibilities:

• Creates, revises, and communicates global supply plans to ensure strategic objectives are met both for long-range and short-range supply plans.
• Effectively creates and manages pre-season planning and in-season execution and optimization of a wholesale finished goods seasonal buy flow plan for a specific set of factories.
• Uses analytical and reporting skills to identify opportunities to increase efficiency, improve communication and processes, and support transparency.
• Drives high levels of planning accuracy enabling inventory reduction, improved resource utilization, product cost savings, and delivery precision.
• Manages, performs, or coordinates all tasks related to production to ensure on-time, in-full delivery to customers.
• Monitors factory performance and develops knowledge of factory issues, strengths, goals, and how these affect business objectives. Monitors and validates factory load plans, analyzes and negotiates factory capacity targets, tracks key models and communicates issues and possible solutions.
• Executes and manages global POs from creation to ex-factory, including supporting the direct ship alignment process, extractions between regions to satisfy customer demand, execution of sourcing-factory reallocation, and cost changes. Partners with IT to drive more efficiency and automation of current buy processes while looking for areas of new functionality or enhancements. 
• Effectively prepares and presents on relevant topics to various groups, including peers, cross-functional partners and management. Elevates the position and department through the development of strategic relations and organizational awareness.
• Decides regional style/color buy quantity to support demand forecast while maximizing inventory turns. Minimizes risks and average inventory levels. Manages materials and production minimums. Communicates constraint impacts on demand fulfilments.
• Utilizes supply-planning processes, systems, and tools, incorporating professional supply-planning techniques.
• Partners with material planning team to resolve RM minimum issues and opportunities to reduce negative impacts on finished good factories and company costs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 8+ years of professional experience and strong competency with the various tools, systems, or procedures required to accomplish the job.
• Solid knowledge of principles, concepts, and theories within supply chain and ability to assist with training and development of other team members on this knowledge
• Project and process management skills
• Proactive and assertive in follow-through with colleagues and business partners. Ability to initiate these communications is necessary.
• Advanced understanding of global supply chain constraints
• Ability to work independently and cooperatively in a diverse group
• The ability to collaborate and influence others
• A well-developed ability to speak read and write English, including writing clear and concise business communication
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• The ability to cope with ambiguity of information
• Intermediate experience using Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets, charts and pivot tables; using functions such as SumIf, vLookup and similar)
• Team leadership skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Skilled at simplifying complex processes and understanding how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow
• Organizational awareness and an understanding of how decisions might impact other functional groups
• Excellent organizational and presentation skills and attention to detail required
• Travel: None
• Work Schedule: Varies
 
Career Band: Professional
Jobs on this career band have a knowledge management focus and are primarily responsible for results achieved through their own work. Requires the application of theoretical knowledge, typically gained through formal education or equivalent work experience that provides knowledge of and exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts of a defined profession. Jobs at higher career levels may guide small teams in their area of subject matter expertise. Jobs at the at the most senior levels of this career band set disciplinary strategy within their areas of expertise.

Criteria & Management Requirements:
• Problem Solving: Solves complex problems and develops independent creative solutions based on the evaluation of multiple options.
• Decisions: Independently analyzes issues of a diverse scope and functions with a moderate degree of autonomy. Receives minimal direction, seeks guidance for highly complex issues.
• Knowledge: In depth knowledge of principles, concepts, and theories within own discipline and working knowledge of related disciplines. Applies broader knowledge of industry standards/practices to assignments and others.
• Business Acumen: Understands best practices; is aware of the differences between the company and its competition in the supported function. Understands how their own functional area integrates with others to deliver results.
• Communication & Influence: Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. May provide process and subject matter advice.
• Impact: Work performed will have impact on cross-functional projects beyond the department.
• Leadership: No supervisory responsibility. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead projects with manageable risks and resource requirements. May contribute input to the performance review of other team members.

Work Environment: Typical Office

Other Work Environment Requirements: 
Typical Office: Operates in a typical office environment, routinely uses computer and other standard office equipment.

Other Physical Requirements: 
Typical Office: Generally sedentary for prolonged periods, may occasionally require ability to move about or adjust/move items weighing up to 10 lbs. in all directions; Constantly requires collaboration and the ability to communicate with others to exchange information while in a typical office setting. Collaboration is generally conducted in person unless the role has been pre-approved for remote work.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.