Manager Global Supply Planning - Beauty

Target • Minneapolis, MN

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager Global Supply Planning - Beauty role is within Target's Owned Brand organization, focusing on designing, planning, and activating upstream supply and inventory strategies to ensure reliability, flexibility, and sustainable growth. This role acts as an upstream integrator, connecting Planning, Inventory Management, Sourcing, and production to provide visibility, proactively manage supply risk, and enable downstream partners to optimize inventory. The position ensures that supply, capacity, and production plans align with demand plans and manufacturing processes to meet business needs, guaranteeing items are produced and available at the right time and in the right location. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to build supply plans for business partners supporting Target Owned Brands, leading long-range strategic planning, and driving regular production planning routines. It also includes a strategic problem-solving function, partnering with internal stakeholders and business partners, and driving continuous improvement of supply planning processes. As a developing capability, this role will contribute to the development of supply planning processes, technology, and interaction models, with opportunities for broad scope impact and collaboration with stakeholders in Minneapolis and overseas. The job may adapt to evolving business needs as this new capability is established.

Requirements

• Four-year college degree or equivalent experiences
• 3+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional teams to build supply plans for business partners who support Target Owned Brands.
• Lead long-range strategic planning routines to ensure the business is manufacturing with the right business partner matrix & country of production footprint.
• Drive regular production planning routines to ensure vendors have supply available to ship On Time & In Full.
• Play a key strategic problem-solving role, partnering with both business partners and internal stakeholders including Inventory Management, Planning, Product Operations, and Close-To-Vendor Sourcing.
• Drive continuous improvement of inputs & outputs to the supply planning process in service of sales growth, reliability, and flexibility.
• Help develop supply planning processes, technology, and interaction models.
• Make a broad scope impact at a pyramid level and work with stakeholders in Minneapolis and overseas.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree