Execution Planning Manager - SC Ops Strategy, Planning & Insights - HYBRID (Seattle, WA)

Nordstrom; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision

Dental

Retirement and PTO

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Merchandise Discount

EAP Resources

Job summary

Nordstrom, Inc. is seeking an Execution Planning Manager for SC Ops Strategy, Planning & Insights to own the weekly S&OE forum and related executive recaps.

You will manage the events calendar, triage disruptions, and drive cross-functional mitigation actions while maintaining risk visibility across the network. The ideal candidate brings systems thinking, structured problem-solving, and a proven ability to align diverse teams through ambiguity, delivering disciplined processes and informed

Qualifications

• 7+ years in supply chain planning, operations, or PM, with ambiguity leadership.
• Executive-level communication distilling risk for senior leaders.
• Drive decisions and alignment across non-reporting functions.
• Map how risks ripple across the network and prioritize.
• Apply structured frameworks to ambiguous problems.

Responsibilities

• Own the weekly S&OE forum agenda, owners, and executive summary.
• Maintain annual events calendar for monthly/weekly risk cadence.
• Triage urgent disruptions and mobilize stakeholders quickly.
• Identify 4–12 week risk impacts and downstream effects.
• Create mitigation workstreams and hold owners accountable.
• Apply RACI, decision rights, escalation criteria for discipline.
• Escalate stalled mitigations and resolve senior-level trade-offs.
• Evolve the forum scope, rhythms, and governance over time.

Skills

Executive communication

Cross-functional alignment

Systems thinking

Structured problem solving

Ambiguity leadership

Job description

Job Description

The Execution Planning Manager – SC Ops Strategy, Planning & Insights will own the weekly S&OE forum and the broader business rhythms that support it. This individual is accountable for the forum's agenda, decisions, and executive-level recap. This person owns scaled events readiness for high-volume moments like Anniversary Sale and Holiday, maintains the annual events calendar as a standing input to the network's risk cadence, and triages urgent ad-hoc requests from the business as they arise. Working from data and signals surfaced across the network, this person identifies downstream cross-functional impacts, drives named mitigation actions and holds owners accountable until risk is resolved. This role partners closely with SC Operations, Transportation, Volume Planning, Store Operations, Finance, and HR to build cross-functional alignment and drive decisions across the organization.

Job Description

This role requires an individual who thinks in systems with the ability to trace how a single disruption (a labor gap, a volume spike, a carrier delay) ripples across inbound, DC/FC processing, and outbound to stores, and to prioritize accordingly. It requires executive-level communication and comfort driving decisions and alignment across functions that don't report to this person, often under incomplete information. The ideal candidate has experience applying structured frameworks (RACI, decision rights, escalation criteria) to bring discipline to a new and still-evolving process, along with the entrepreneurial spirit to grow that process from its early stages to maturity.

A day in the life…

• Own the weekly S&OE forum including agenda, owner assignments, and executive-level summary of key topics and decisions
• Maintain the annual events calendar as a standing input to the monthly and weekly risk cadence, flagging when an upcoming date warrants elevated scrutiny
• Triage fly-in issues (unplanned, urgent disruptions outside the normal cadence) and quickly mobilize the right stakeholders to respond
• Sense potential risks to network execution over the next 4–12 weeks, including downstream cross-functional impacts
• Drive creation of mitigation workstreams, both upstream and downstream, and hold named owners accountable for action
• Apply structured frameworks (RACI, decision rights, escalation criteria) to bring discipline and repeatability to a new process
• Escalate stalled mitigation actions and resolve cross-functional trade-offs at the senior director level
• Continuously evolve the forum's scope, rhythms, and governance as the process matures

You own this if you have…

• 7+ years of supply chain planning, operations, or program management experience, including leading through ambiguity in a new or evolving process
• Demonstrated executive-level communication skills with ability to distill complex, cross-functional risk into a clear recommendation for senior leaders
• Proven ability to drive decisions and alignment across functions that don't report to you
• Systems thinking and comfort mapping how a risk in one part of the network creates impact elsewhere, and prioritizing accordingly
• Experience applying structured frameworks to solve ambiguous problems

Pay Range Details

The pay range(s) below has been provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different for other locations.

Pay offers are dependent on the location, as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

$110,500.00 - $183,000.00 Annual

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Benefits

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben_Overview_17-19.pdf

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