Senior Planner, Global Supply Planning

About the role

The Senior Global Supply Planner manages, analyzes and executes long-term strategic planning for long-range supply and capacity plans, as well as pre-season and in-season supply planning, to optimize supply availability to global markets. The role assesses and mitigates supply risks linked to demand variation, capacity or fabric/material constraints and forecast variances, and builds strong relationships with internal teams (product supply, brand and commercial planning) and external vendors.

Key responsibilities

• Support long-range planning with internal and external stakeholders, drawing robust plans aligned with the sourcing strategy
• Help validate the forecast and translate it into capacity, allocation and material type; give initial vendor allocation guidance and validate against critical GTM milestones
• Translate regional DC receipt plans into PO placement schedules
• Use regional demand forecasts and market information to drive seasonal and long-range planning decisions
• Validate and present supply signals so the product supply group has one source of forecast
• Create and maintain the seasonal buy plan, optimize the global PO placement schedule and set the buy strategy (exceptions, one-time buys, MOQ reviews, set-buy windows, material pre-positioning)
• Drive the monthly need-to-buy process and seasonal calendars for buy dates and shipping schedules
• Collect capacity risk assessments and work with the capacity planning team on mitigation actions such as fair-share, prebuild, push-out, re-allocation and vendor own-prebuild
• Work with material planning to define a material proposition strategy that optimizes lead time while balancing liability risk
• Coordinate buy execution, roll up capacity and production planning updates to regions, and challenge the status quo to improve processes
• Drive department KPIs (OTP, acceptance rates, calendar execution, fill rates, management reporting) and support quality, CSR and other brand needs

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, operations management, engineering or a related field; an MBA or relevant master's degree is often preferred
• 3-5 years of experience in supply chain management, with a strong background in capacity and production planning
• Proven experience managing global teams across multiple countries
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, solve problems and drive process improvements globally

Required skills

• Supply chain management software (e.g. SAP, Oracle, JDA)
• Advanced analytical skills; experience with Excel, Power BI and Tableau is a plus
• Capacity modeling, scenario planning and end-to-end supply chain knowledge