Director, Supply Planning & Purchasing

Unrivaled Teamwear LLC; Lenexa (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Unrivaled Teamwear is seeking a Director of Supply Planning & Purchasing to own the purchasing and inventory strategy for blank apparel across multiple suppliers. You will manage OTB, set safety stock, and contribute to the monthly S&OP process, ensuring a steady supply for decoration operations.

The role requires leadership of a planning/purchasing team, strong SKU management, and collaboration with Finance, Demand Planning, and S&OP stakeholders to meet customer service level targets.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in supply planning, purchasing, or sourcing in decorated apparel or related fields.
• Direct experience purchasing blank/greige apparel stock for decoration or private-label operations.
• Experience managing an open-to-buy process with Finance.
• Ability to plan and purchase across a broad SKU portfolio with varied lead times.
• Strong understanding of S&OP, forecast accuracy, and safety stock.

Responsibilities

• Plan and place purchase orders for blank apparel across suppliers, balancing cost, quality, and speed.
• Own purchasing execution against the open-to-buy plan and reconcile variances.
• Partner with Finance on OTB development, inventory targets, and landed costs.
• Manage a broad SKU portfolio across classifications with diverse suppliers.
• Build rolling supply plans translating demand into supplier commitments.
• Lead a planning/purchasing team and drive process improvements.

Skills

Supply planning

Purchasing

S&OP

Demand planning

Open-to-buy

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain/business

APICS/CPIM or CPSM certification

Tools

Logility

ERP/planning systems

Job description

Brief Description

The Director of Supply Planning & Purchasing owns the purchasing and inventory strategy for blank apparel — tees, fleece, performance wear, and other decoration-ready stock — that feeds our decoration operations. This role manages purchasing against the open-to-buy plan in close partnership with Finance, sets safety stock to hit customer service-level targets, and serves as an integral, standing voice in the monthly S&OP process. The ideal candidate is comfortable managing a broad and varied SKU portfolio across multiple classifications and suppliers with differing lead times, and translating demand signals from Demand Planning into a purchasing plan that keeps decoration operations running without interruption.

Overview

The Director of Supply Planning & Purchasing owns the purchasing and inventory strategy for blank apparel — tees, fleece, performance wear, and other decoration-ready stock — that feeds our decoration operations. This role manages purchasing against the open-to-buy plan in close partnership with Finance, sets safety stock to hit customer service-level targets, and serves as an integral, standing voice in the monthly S&OP process. The ideal candidate is comfortable managing a broad and varied SKU portfolio across multiple classifications and suppliers with differing lead times, and translating demand signals from Demand Planning into a purchasing plan that keeps decoration operations running without interruption.

About Unrivaled Teamwear

Unrivaled Teamwear is the fast-growing parent company behind Gear for Sports and Knights Apparel. Headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, we design, decorate, and deliver team gear — tees, fleece, performance wear, outerwear, headwear, and accessories — for customers ranging from big box retailers, college bookstores, golf courses and resorts, and national retailers.

We've grown quickly over the past year and expect that growth to continue. We are looking for motivated candidates looking to grow their career alongside the business.

Job Responsibilities

Purchasing & Open-to-Buy

• Plan and place purchase orders for blank apparel across a portfolio of suppliers, balancing cost, quality, and speed.
• Own purchasing execution against the open-to-buy (OTB) plan — pacing commitments to budgeted inventory investment, flagging variances early, and reconciling actuals against plan on a recurring cadence.
• Partner with Finance on OTB development, inventory investment targets, working-capital planning, and cost/landed-cost assumptions.
• Manage a broad and varied SKU portfolio spanning multiple product classifications, fabrications, and price points, sourced from a diverse supplier base with differing lead times, minimums, and capacity constraints.

Supply & Demand Planning

• Build and maintain rolling supply plans that translate demand into supplier commitments, blending historical sell-through, seasonal team/league programs, and licensed-goods demand spikes.
• Partner closely with the Demand Planning and Forecasting team to align on demand signals, consumption assumptions, and forecast accuracy, ensuring purchasing plans are built on a shared, trusted number.
• Set and continuously tune safety stock policy by SKU/category to hit target customer service levels, balancing fill-rate commitments against inventory carrying cost.

S&OP & Cross-Functional Alignment

• Serve as an integral, standing participant in the monthly sales & operations planning (S&OP) process, bringing the purchasing and supply view to the table alongside Sales, Licensing, Demand Planning, and Finance.
• Coordinate with Sourcing and Product Development on category strategies and cost initiatives without compromising quality or service levels.

Vendor & Inventory Management

• Manage blank goods inventory across distribution locations, driving turns, minimizing aged and excess stock, and resolving allocation conflicts when demand outpaces supply.
• Anticipate and manage supply disruptions —capacity constraints, freight delays, tariff or cost shifts — and build contingency plans that protect customer commitments.

Systems & Reporting

• Maintain forecasting and purchasing data in the ERP/planning system (Logility), building management-ready reporting on OTB position, fill rates, lead times, and supplier performance.
• Identify and drive improvements to planning tools and processes as SKU count and order volume scale.

Team Leadership

• Build, coach, and lead a planning/purchasing team, setting priorities and development plans as the function scales.

Required

Minimum Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in supply planning, purchasing, or sourcing, ideally within decorated apparel, promotional products, licensed goods, wholesale apparel, or team dealer distribution.
• Direct experience purchasing blank/greige apparel stock for a decoration, embellishment, or private-label operation.
• Demonstrated experience managing an open-to-buy process in close partnership with Finance.
• Proven ability to plan and purchase across a broad spectrum of SKUs and product classifications simultaneously, across suppliers with varied lead times and constraints.
• Strong understanding of S&OP processes and demand/supply planning fundamentals — forecast accuracy, safety stock, fill rate.
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred

• Experience with demand planning and ERP/planning systems; Logility experience strongly preferred.
• APICS/CPIM or CPSM certification.
• Demonstrated experience building and leading a planning or purchasing team.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the associate. Other duties will be assigned as needed.

EOE/AA: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing as well as participate in E-Verify.