Manager Global Supply Planning - Food & Beverage

Target • Minneapolis, MN

5d • $73,000 - $132,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager Global Supply Planning role supports the Pantry and Bakery categories within Target Owned Brand Food & Beverage. Global Supply Planning (GSP) is responsible for designing, planning, and activating upstream supply and inventory strategies to ensure reliability, flexibility, and sustainable growth for Target. As an 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. This role ensures that supply, capacity, and production plans are established in conjunction with demand plans and manufacturing processes to meet business needs, ensuring items are produced and available at the right time and in the right location. This position requires working from the Minneapolis HQ location 4 days a week, with potential for changes in in-office requirements.

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

• Support the development and execution of Upstream Supply Strategies: Partner with Planning, Inventory, and Sourcing to develop 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 Planning: Deliver the 3-year OB plan that aligns merchant long range plans with sourcing strategies.
• Own Collaborative Supply Planning: Partner with PIM, Sourcing, and business partners to create upstream supply strategies, including order flow tactics, stocking strategies, safety stock, and read and react activation. Shape routines and communication cadences that align upstream production decisions with downstream receipt needs.
• 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 divisions and drive capability iteration through ongoing feedback, projects, and captainships.

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