Sr Manager Global Supply Planning

Target; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Employee discount

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Paid sick leave

Paid national holidays

Paid vacation

Job summary

Target is seeking a Global Supply Planning Senior Manager, Apparel, to shape upstream supply plans and activate inventory strategies across owned brands. You will influence vendor partners and cross-functional leaders to improve speed, reliability, and growth while aligning with merchant strategies.

The role requires strong data-driven decision making, collaboration with global teams, and the ability to manage complex supply challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years relevant sourcing, planning, inventory management, and/or supply planning experience.
• Strong strategic, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills demonstrating ability to work effectively with local and overseas partners.
• Flexibility, resiliency and nimbleness; comfortable with ambiguity and working in “grey areas” that are constantly changing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to engage cross-functional team, story tell through data, and keep partners informed.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills to manage competing deliverables and collaborate with and influence a broad group of partners and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop upstream supply strategies and activate inventory plans.
• Deliver the 3-year OB plan aligning merchant and sourcing strategies.
• Own collaborative supply planning with PIM, Sourcing, and vendors.
• Provide timely visibility into production status, milestones, lead times, and risks.
• Create and maintain KPIs measuring speed, flexibility, reliability and business impact.
• Contribute to scaling Global Supply Planning within Owned Brands.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Problem solving

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family.

• Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

A&A Sr. Manager Global Supply Planning

About Us

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company, and one of America’s leading retailers. At the heart of our success is our Owned Brand organization — a dynamic team that designs, develops, and sources the products our guests love. From concept to creation to manufacturing, we infuse trend, quality, and innovation into everything we do, building brands that surprise and delight millions of consumers.

Global Supply Planning (GSP) designs, plans, and activates supply and inventory strategies that ensure reliability, speed, and flexibility while enabling sustainable growth for Target. As the upstream integrator, GSP connects Planning, Inventory Management, Sourcing, and production to provide visibility, proactively manage supply risk, and enable downstream partners to optimize in‑network inventory.

About The Role

As an Global Supply Planning Senior Manager, Apparel, you will serve as a strategic leader shaping and activating collaborative supply plans that deliver speed, flexibility, reliability, and growth for Target Owned Brands. You will operate at the intersection of Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, and global vendor partners strategically aligning supply & capacity to merchant and sourcing strategies. You will support multiple divisions, influence senior cross functional leaders and global teams to drive OB supply resilience, inform sourcing decisions, and enable enterprise level outcomes.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop and Execute Upstream Supply Strategies: Design and activate upstream supply and inventory strategies that ensure surety of supply and enable faster response to risk signals. Evaluate business context, demand volatility, lead times, vendor capability, and liability exposure to determine the right supply model (e.g., read‑and‑react, inventory stocking).
• Lead Long Range and Capacity Planning Deliver the 3-year OB plan that aligns merchant long range plans with sourcing strategies. Provide factory level capacity visibility where it matters most for sourcing, PSQA, and production governance. These plans provide the strategic foundation for investment decisions, risk mitigation, and supply continuity.
• Own Collaborative Supply Planning Partner with PIM, Sourcing, and vendors to create upstream supply strategies, including order flow tactics, stocking strategies, safety stock, postponement, and read and react activation. Shape routines and communication cadences that align upstream production decisions with downstream receipt needs
• Enable Visibility through In Season Visibility: Provide timely visibility to production status, call date milestones, lead times, constraints, risks, and WIP/finished goods positions to anticipate issues before they occur.
• Deliver Performance Reporting & Insights Create and maintain measurable KPIs connected to speed, flexibility, reliability, and business impact, ensuring strategy activation is grounded in data.
• Contribute to building and scaling Global Supply Planning in Owned Brands. Establish processes, tools, and operating models that elevate global supply planning as a strategic enabler. Own GSP deployment within your pyramid and drive capability iteration through ongoing feedback, projects, and captainships.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job may flex to evolving business needs with agility as this new capability is established. The role ins performed in office 4 days per week in Minneapolis.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years relevant sourcing, planning, inventory management, and/or supply planning experience
• Strong strategic, problem solving, and analytical skills. Demonstrates ability to analyze large sets of data and insights to form a perspective to effectively problem solve and drive decisions.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills demonstrating ability to work effectively with local and overseas partners
• Flexibility, resiliency and nimbleness; comfortable with ambiguity and working in “grey areas” that are constantly changing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to engage cross-functional team, story tell through data, and keep partners informed.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills to manage competing deliverables and collaborate with and influence a broad group of partners and stakeholders.

Team Members in the Target General Merch Inc operating company are prohibited from working more than thirty (30) days per calendar year in any of the following states: AL, AR, DE, FL, IN, IA, LA, MD, MS, MO, NC, OK, PA, SC, TN and VA. If hired, you will be prohibited from working remotely from any of the states listed above for more than thirty (30) days per calendar year.

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