Sr. Global Supply Planner

Overview

The Sr. Global Supply Planner is a global planning leadership role responsible for driving supply visibility, risk management, governance, and executive-ready decision support across regions and channels. This role owns global supply planning processes and helps enable stronger company decisions across supply, commercial, and sourcing teams.

The Sr. Global Supply Planner serves as a key cross-functional partner to Production, Sourcing, Operations, Demand Planning, Merchandising, Commercial, Finance, and regional planning teams, driving alignment on supply risk, raw material investments, prebuild decisions, factory commitments, and business trade-offs. This role reports to the Director, Global Supply Planning.

What You'll Do

• Handle global supply risk assessments and supply reviews as part of the S&OP process, ensuring risks, decisions, and trade-offs are clearly surfaced and governed
• Drive proactive identification of supply shortages, capacity constraints, material risks, and factory commitment gaps, partnering cross-functionally to define mitigation plans and escalation paths
• Provide recommendations on supply prioritization and regional prioritization decisions across all regions
• Lead the development of the global supply chain forecast by integrating regional demand signals, capacity inputs, and forward supply requirements
• Translate month-over-month supply forecast changes into clear factory and commercial implications, risks, and recommendations
• Evaluate impacts of supply forecast changes on raw material investments, contracts, pre-buys, prebuilds, PO exposure, and factory capacity commitments
• Lead raw material planning and approval governance in partnership with Production, Global Demand Planning, Sourcing, and regional planning teams to assess and drive recommendations for pre-buys, shortages and raw material exposure
• Lead cross-functional evaluation of finished goods prebuild needs, including recommended quantities, timing, factory placement, inventory exposure, and demand impact
• Drive decision support for finished goods contract placement with factories based on demand signals, capacity availability, lead times, supply risk, and inventory implications
• Escalate risks related to prebuilds, demand changes, excess inventory exposure, and factory capacity trade-offs with clear recommendations and decision options
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across global supply planning and related support functions in partnership with the global Center of Excellence
• Partner with IT, Planning Operations, the Center of Excellence, and Regional Supply Planning teams to drive process standardization, AI adoption/usage, and system change management to strengthen global visibility, supply planning process and decision support
• Serve as the global SME and process owner for o9 Supply & Inventory Planning capabilities, ensuring system outputs support supply planning processes

What You'll Bring to the Table

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, or related field, or equivalent experience
• At least 5+ years of experience in supply planning, inventory management, production planning, materials planning, S&OP, or related supply chain leadership roles
• Advanced Excel and AI skills required; experience with SAP ERP and advanced planning systems preferred
• Demonstrated ability to lead global or multi-region planning processes, drive governance, and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority
• Strong understanding of supply planning, inventory management, production, factory execution, raw material planning, capacity management, and purchase order processes
• Experience leading S&OP inputs, supply risk reviews, prebuild planning, raw material investment decisions, or executive decision support
• Ability to analyze supply, demand, inventory, capacity, and material data and translate findings into clear business implications, decision options, and recommendations
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to simplify complex planning topics and create decision-ready materials for senior leaders
• Experience building scalable planning processes, improving process discipline, and standardizing tools or reporting across teams

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