Job Overview: 

The Sr. Global Supply Planning Manager is responsible for leading the assigned brand’s end to end supply planning and ensure global capacity alignment to meet business demand, inventory targets and service levels. This role covers all vendors to develop supply strategies, identify constraints, mitigation plan and ensure proactive supply and capacity planning.  The ideal candidate has strong experience in supply planning, production capacity modeling, scenario planning and stakeholder collaboration across a matrixed global environment.  They serve as a strategic link between brand and regional planning, product supply organization, operations and supply chain leadership to ensure transparency of issues, effective communication and appropriate prioritization of business needs so the products are delivered at the right place, right time and right cost.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with Brand & Regional planning, product supply lead for long range capacity and production requirement based on LRP.
• Own supply signal to ensure product supply group have one source of forecast for decision making
• Translate MFP forecast into capacity, allocation, material type. Use MFP forecast, historical and insights to provide initial allocation guidance for vendor allocation team, validate through critical GTM Milestones. Translate regional DC receipts plan to PO placement schedule
• Orchestras cross function to create and maintain the seasonal buy plan, optimize global PO placement schedule and set buy strategy (e.g. exceptions LLT call out, one-time buy to avoid surcharge, MOQ review, set buy windows with regional planning to align with sales meeting calendar & long holiday / black out period, material pre-position actions…etc.).  Updated monthly to reflect requirement and capacity changes.
• Own the monthly need to buy process as well as seasonal calendars for buy dates and shipping schedules
• Drive capacity risk assessment, identify actions and resolutions with regional planning team
• Identify capacity risk and mitigation actions for both brand planning and product supply - Fairshare, prebuild, push-out, re-allocation, capacity increase, vendor own-prebuild…etc.
• Work with material planning to define material proposition strategy to optimize lead time while balancing liability risk
• Partner with Brand Planning to align and govern buy strategy, define priority across regions and products under constraint situation
• Governance buy execution to ensure alignment with agreed actions during global consensus meeting
• Coordinate information/data gathering and system setup for smooth buy execution
• Roll-up Capacity and Production Planning updates to communicate with regions
• Drive forecast accuracy improvements through higher level communication and transparency with the regions on issues and opportunities and be a true partner with them by evaluating best practices, leveraging opportunities, and resolving key issues and concerns
• Challenge the status quo by adopting creative ideas that will drive improvement in process, to support a customer centric approach
• Drive department KPI’s OTP, Acceptance Rates, Calendar Execution, Fill Rates, Management Reporting and support Quality, CSR, and other relevant Brand needs