Job Summary:

Columbia Sportswear Company connects active people with their passions.  We look for agents of change who are passionate about their work and deliver financial results for the company. As the Director of Global Omni Planning, you are accountable for both the Global Demand Planning and Omni Planning Operations teams. The Global Demand Planning team is responsible for delivering long-range categorical and product-level forecasts from the long-range horizon through the Go-to-Market process as well as managing total company inventory. Additionally, the Omni Planning team is responsible for the end-to-end Omni demand and fulfillment planning process across brand, region, and channel.

How You’ll Make a Difference

• Direct the development of the global demand plan to delivery long-range corporate business objectives across the enterprise and omni channel landscape
• Partner with the Brand Merchandising, Finance, and Commercial leaders on setting the operational long-range demand plan that influences financial and product strategy and on setting desirable and profitable product assortments
• Drive inventory efficiency and turn with governance over brand and regional targets
• Accountable for the global end-to-end Omni Planning demand and fulfillment strategy, functional analytics, and planning application governance within the Blue Yonder suite and driving best practices and continuous improvement across brands, regions, and channels
• Identify and develop new Demand and Supply Planning capabilities
• Direct the resolution of highly complex or unusual business problems applying advanced analytical thought and judgment
• Leverage analytics and key performance indicators to inform decision-making and strategy
• High level of partnership, influence, and visibility with Director and above leaders across Enterprise/Brand/Region Finance, Merchandising, Commercial & Channel, Supply Chain, and Information Technology 

YOU ARE

• Provides leadership and direction through Managers/Senior Managers and external consultants/partnersValues diversity and empowering individuals for independent decision-making through clear direction and leadership.
• Strong collaboration, listening, and communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and urgency
• Critical enterprise-wide impact across multiple brands, regions, and channelsProvides leadership and direction in resolving complex enterprise and operational problems
• Guided by policies, resource requirements, budgets and the area business plan, decisions impact the finances, operational efficiency and effectiveness of own team and often multiple related teams
• Develops solutions and execution strategies where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of business strategy and objectives
• Development of direct reports, and their teams, in areas of learning and development, coaching, succession planning, training and performance management 
• Ability to travel approximately up to 20% of the time.

YOU HAVE

• Bachelor’s or applicable certification or equivalent experience, MBA preferred
• 10+ years of Supply Chain functional experience
• 5-8 years of experience in a management/leadership role
• High-level understanding of Supply Chain Management and Enterprise Planning processes Experience with senior leadership in delivering executive-level summary updates, analytic insights, and presentations
• Ability to negotiate and influence the opinions and decision making of senior executives and/or other enterprise leaders on matters of significance
• Ability to create a vision, set priorities, and empower teams to deliver expected outcomes
• Previous work with other cultures in a business setting, and awareness of and sensitivity to cultural differences 

Other/Job Conditions:

• Job requires hours that may occasionally exceed 8 hours per day and/or 40 hours per week during times of peak activity.  Evening meetings and/or weekend work occasionally required to collaborate with people in other time zones and to ensure timely project completion.  Some job pressure exists in the balancing of several projects with conflicting and sometimes changing deadlines.

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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. 

Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to [email protected] with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.