About Us 

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company, and one of America’s 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 upstream 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 in‑network inventory. 

About the Role 

As a Global Supply Planning Senior Manager, Fun101, you will serve as the 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., read and react, inventory stocking). 

• Lead Long Range and Capacity Planning Deliver the 3year OB plan that aligns merchant  plans with sourcing strategies. Provide factory level capacity visibility where it matters most for sourcing, PSQA, and production governance. These plans provide the strategic 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 description. Job may flex to evolving business needs with agility as this new capability is established.   

About you:  

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 

• 6+ years relevant sourcing, planning, inventory management, and/or supply planning experience 

• Strong experience architecting, optimizing, and executing end to end supply strategies, with a demonstrated ability to translate business goals into actionable supply network strategies, align cross functional senior stakeholders, and operationalize plans.  

• Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously, set clear priorities, and drive structured outcomes in evolving environments 

• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect day-to-day execution to long-term organizational direction 

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking capability, with a track record of applying advanced problem-solving approaches to drive high-impact outcomes 

• Proven cross-functional and global leadership with the ability to influence without direct authority across multiple levels of the organization.  

• Excellent communication skills — able to tell compelling stories, drive stakeholder alignment, and influence senior leaders 

• Ability to balance competing priorities and drive clarity amid complexity