Lead, Materials Supply Planner, FW

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Pahokee (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Sports Jobs Limited is seeking a senior Materials Planner for footwear to connect planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and product creation partners across seasonal and longer horizons.

You will shape material supply plans, expose risk early, and drive readiness by collaborating with Materials Sourcing, Costing, Development, Global Supply Planning, and analytics teams to build a more responsive and efficient supply chain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, or related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of directly relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of MRP, demand translation, production planning, capacity management, lead-time strategies, and corrective-action processes.
• Experience using segmentation, service levels, risk assessment, analytics, and planning tools to prioritise work.
• Strong understanding of materials planning, manufacturing, and supply chain operations.
• Analytical judgment to assess plan health, anticipate risk, and recommend practical solutions.
• Ability to use data, business context, and stakeholder input to strengthen forecast completeness, accuracy, and fidelity while maintaining accountability to key performance measures.
• Clear communication and ability to build alignment across diverse and cross-cultural teams.
• Ability to balance long-range strategy with disciplined execution.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment, challenge the status quo, and bring curiosity to new planning capabilities and ways of working.
• Strong presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Ability to prioritise competing needs, navigate ambiguity, and help teams move with speed and confidence.
• Strategic, solutions-oriented approach that can turn complexity into clear action.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage sport-level material forecasts, integrating cross-functional inputs and translating finished-goods demand into clear supply requirements.
• Monitor plan health, identify forecast gaps, and drive actions that improve forecast completeness, accuracy, and fidelity.
• Establish planning service levels and use segmentation to prioritise materials and actions based on strategic value, feasibility, and delivery risk.
• Define and operationalise material lead-time, commitment, and staging strategies that increase agility and support demand variability.
• Partner with Materials Sourcing, Supplier Management, and Materials Development to recommend sourcing strategies, capacity solutions, and material alternatives.
• Lead seasonal readiness across the assigned sport alignment, connecting milestones from long-range planning through execution and representing Materials Planning in cross-functional forums.
• Own strategic initiatives, monitor performance measures, drive continuous improvement, and partner with Technology and Analytics teams to strengthen tools, capabilities, and data transparency.

Skills

Forecasting

Data analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Analytical judgment

Communication

Agile planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, or related field

Tools

o9 Materials Forecast

MRP/planning tools

Job description

About the Role

The role reports to the Materials Planning Director, Footwear, and connects planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and product creation partners. It shapes material supply plans that support finished-goods delivery across seasonal and longer-range horizons, exposing risk early and strengthening readiness. The planner collaborates with Materials Sourcing, Materials Costing, Materials Development, Global Supply Planning, Global Merch Planning, Technology and Analytics, Supplier Manufacturing Management, and Tier 2 materials partners to create a more responsive, resilient, and efficient footwear materials supply chain.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage sport-level material forecasts, integrating cross-functional inputs and translating finished-goods demand into clear supply requirements.
• Monitor plan health, identify forecast gaps, and drive actions that improve forecast completeness, accuracy, and fidelity.
• Establish planning service levels and use segmentation to prioritise materials and actions based on strategic value, feasibility, and delivery risk.
• Define and operationalise material lead-time, commitment, and staging strategies that increase agility and support demand variability.
• Partner with Materials Sourcing, Supplier Management, and Materials Development to recommend sourcing strategies, capacity solutions, and material alternatives.
• Lead seasonal readiness across the assigned sport alignment, connecting milestones from long-range planning through execution and representing Materials Planning in cross-functional forums.
• Own strategic initiatives, monitor performance measures, drive continuous improvement, and partner with Technology and Analytics teams to strengthen tools, capabilities, and data transparency.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, or related field; any suitable combination of education, experience, and training will be accepted.
• Minimum of 6 years of directly relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), demand translation, production planning, capacity management, manufacturing practices, lead-time strategies, and corrective-action processes.
• Experience using segmentation, service levels, risk assessment, analytics, and planning tools to prioritise work, evaluate plan health, and improve business performance.
• Strong understanding of materials planning, manufacturing, and supply chain operations.
• Analytical judgment to assess plan health, anticipate risk, and recommend practical solutions.
• Ability to use data, business context, and stakeholder input to strengthen forecast completeness, accuracy, and fidelity while maintaining accountability to key performance measures.
• Clear communication and ability to build alignment across diverse and cross-cultural teams.
• Ability to balance long-range strategy with disciplined execution.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment, challenge the status quo, and bring curiosity to new planning capabilities and ways of working.
• Strong presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Ability to prioritise competing needs, navigate ambiguity, and help teams move with speed and confidence.
• Strategic, solutions-oriented approach that can turn complexity into clear action.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with manufacturing processes, cross-cultural virtual teams, materials segmentation, Critical Materials Tracking, o9 Materials Forecast, or seasonal readiness processes.

The Application Process

Accommodations are available to complete the interview process, including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single-location in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.