Manager Global Supply Planning

Target • Minneapolis, MN

7d • $73,000 - $132,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Supply Planning (GSP) team designs, plans, and activates upstream supply and inventory strategies to ensure reliability, speed, and flexibility while enabling sustainable growth for Target. As the upstream integrator, GSP connects Planning, Inventory Management, Sourcing, and Business Partners to provide production and inventory visibility, proactively manage supply risk, and enable downstream partners to optimize in-network inventory. A role in GSP means ensuring that the supply, capacity, and production plans are established in conjunction with demand plans and manufacturing processes to meet business needs. The role will ensure that items are produced and available at the right time and in the right location. This position will require working from our Minneapolis HQ location 4 days a week. In office requirements are subject to change.

As a Global Supply Planning Manager, Domestics, you will serve as a critical partner in help 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. This role is performed in office 4 days per week from our Downtown MN campus.

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 accountable for the execution of Upstream Supply Strategies: Partner with senior supply planning manager and CFTs to 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 3year 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 business partners (many are overseas) 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 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: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree