Senior Planning Operations Analyst

Columbia Sportswear Company; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with match

EAP+ counseling

Wellness programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

Columbia Sportswear Company seeks a Senior Planning Operations Analyst focused on Global Planning for Fulfillment. You will lead the end-to-end fulfillment processes, drive improvements across brands, regions, and channels, and align analytics with business needs.

You will collaborate with business SMEs, define requirements, and manage a backlog of use cases and user stories while ensuring delivery aligns with strategic priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Supply Chain, Business, Management or similar.
• 5+ years of experience in a business process/analyst role with decision support.
• Experience defining business use cases and requirements; translating analytics to decisions.
• Omni-channel and Retail industry knowledge desired.

Responsibilities

• Owns the Global Planning fulfillment process and associated analytics.
• Engage SMEs to define requirements and deliver against Supply Chain priorities.
• Lead and drive global fulfillment capabilities and outcomes.
• Define backlogs with clear business requirements and user stories.
• Coordinate a community of super users to drive updates and enhancements.
• Support cross-brand, cross-region planning initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Business analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Planning applications

Job description

This position is designated as a hybrid role based out of our headquarters near Portland, Oregon. The current expectation is for employees to work onsite four days per week, subject to change based on business needs. This in-office requirement may be adjusted at the discretion of the company. As the Senior Planning Operations Analyst focused on our Global Planning end-to-end business process and capabilities, you are the functional area leader for Fulfillment. This position will be focused leading and driving seasonal process and continuous improvement efforts associated to Fulfillment planning across the different brands, regions and channels. You are the business process owner and the global go-to person regarding the fulfillment process, capabilities, and relevant key performance indicators. In addition to process and capabilities, you have a working knowledge of associated analytics to inform and enable the related business processes. #Hybrid #LI-LC1

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Owns the Global Planning business process associated to Fulfillment planning encompassing planning application and analytical capabilities
• Act as functional SME as well as engage business SMEs to define requirements, support of solutions and deliver against defined Supply Chain and Enterprise priorities
• Strong leadership and ability to drive towards Global Planning capabilities and desired outcomes
• Anticipate and communicate issues and key decisions to program sponsors and stakeholders
• Defines business use cases, user stories, and/or business requirement while ensuring clarity within the backlog
• Champion business priorities and requirements through program deliverables as necessary
• You will work as the functional global lead for fulfillment planning to determine omni-channel needs priorities in support of Global Planning Leadership
• Anticipate and communicate issues and key decisions to Global Planning Leadership and/or program leadership
• Matrix leader of a super user community driving and facilitating process, capability, and analytics updates and enhancements associated with fulfillment planning
• Support and coordination of other users validating enhancements for business process, planning tool and associated analytical capabilities
• Drives and facilitates continuing education of current business process and associated enhancements to planning applications and/or related reporting that informs the process
• Performs other duties as assigned

YOU HAVE

• Bachelor's degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience in Supply Chain Management, Business, Management, Merchandise Planning, or similar fields
• Requires 5-8 years of professional experience and mastery of relevant function/process experience business skills
• 5+ years of experience with decision support tools and processes in a business process/analyst capacity
• Ability to relate planning application and associated data to business process need
• Business Process Analyst experience defining business process and leveraging analytics to inform decision making
• Business acumen across product creation, manufacturing, supply chain (demand and supply planning), finance and retail desired
• Work experience reflects a progression of increasing responsibility.
• Omni-channel experience and Retail industry knowledge is desired

Benefits

• At Columbia Sportswear Company, we're proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding.
• Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community.
• Benefits that can protect your family's financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match.
• Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services).
• In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services.
• We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to [e-mail] with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.

Founded in 1938, Columbia Sportswear Company is a global leader in designing, sourcing, marketing, and distributing outdoor and active lifestyle apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment. Our four primary brands - Columbia®, Mountain Hardwear®, SOREL® and prAna® - complement each other to address the diverse needs of active consumers and their products have gained an international reputation for their innovation, quality and performance. Learn more about our family of brands here.