Senior Planning Operations Analyst

Columbia Sportswear Company; Portland (ME); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbia Sportswear Company is seeking a Senior Planning Operations Analyst focused on Global Planning for Fulfillment. The role leads end-to-end processes, drives continuous improvement, and ensures analytics inform business decisions across brands and regions.

The candidate will own the planning application, engage business SMEs, and champion priorities through program deliverables while coordinating a global team of super users and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in SCM, Business, Management, Merchandise Planning, or similar fields.
• 5–8 years of professional experience in the field.
• 5+ years with decision support tools and business process analytics.
• Ability to relate planning application and associated data to business process need.
• Experience defining business processes and using analytics to inform decisions.
• Omni-channel experience and retail knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Owns the Global Planning business process for Fulfillment planning and analytics capabilities.
• Engage SMEs to define requirements and support solutions aligning with Supply Chain priorities.
• Lead and drive global planning capabilities and outcomes.
• Define business use cases, user stories, and backlog clarity.
• Champion priorities through program deliverables and cross-functional collaboration.
• Serve as global lead for fulfillment planning to determine omni-channel priorities.
• Coordinate super user community for process and analytics updates.
• Validate enhancements for business processes and reporting.
• Facilitate ongoing education of planning applications and analytics.

Skills

Decision support tools

Business process analysis

Analytics for decision making

Omni-channel experience

Retail knowledge

Supply chain acumen

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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.

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

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position’s scope and function in the company.

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.

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.