Sr Manager Global Supply Planning- Food and Beverage- Frozen

Target • Minneapolis, MN

11d • $95,000 - $171,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Target Merchandising is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how this $106 billion retailer offers the innovative, guest-inspiring items that Target is known and loved for. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value, quality, and style to elevate Target as the premier retailer in a competitive global marketplace. Through intelligent and progressive business strategies that make the most of Target’s resources and partnerships worldwide, Merchandising works across product categories to create a localized shopping experience online and in our 1800 stores. Global Supply Planning (GSP) designs, plans, and activates upstream supply and inventory strategies that ensure reliability, 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. A role in Global Supply Planning 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 Senior Global Supply Planning Manager, Food & Beverage - Frozen, you will work with cross-functional teams to build supply plans for business partners who support Target Owned Brands within our Frozen category. You will lead long-range strategic planning routines to ensure the business is manufacturing with the right business partner matrix & country of production footprint. You will drive regular production planning routines to ensure vendors have supply available to ship On Time & In Full, while optimizing inventory aging. You will play a key strategic problem-solving role, partnering with both business partners and internal stakeholders including Planning & Inventory Management, Supplier Management, and Sourcing. You will drive continuous improvement of inputs & outputs to the supply planning process in service of sales growth, reliability, and flexibility. As a newer capability within Owned Brands, you will help develop supply planning processes, technology, and interaction models specific to the temperature control business. You will have an opportunity to make a broad scope impact at a pyramid level and work with stakeholders in Minneapolis and overseas. 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. For local team members, this position will require a minimum of 4 days in our Minneapolis HQ location. In office requirements may evolve in accordance with internal policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years relevant sourcing, planning, inventory management, and/or supply planning experience.
• Experience in temperature controlled inventory is highly recommended
• Strong experience architecting, optimizing, and executing end to end supply strategies, with a demonstrated ability to translate business goals into actionable supply network strategies, align cross functional senior stakeholders, and operationalize plans.
• Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously, set clear priorities, and drive structured outcomes in evolving environments
• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect day-to-day execution to long-term organizational direction
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking capability, with a track record of applying advanced problem-solving approaches to drive high-impact outcomes
• Proven cross-functional and global leadership with the ability to influence without direct authority across multiple levels of the organization.
• Excellent communication skills — able to tell compelling stories, drive stakeholder alignment, and influence senior leaders
• Ability to balance competing priorities and drive clarity amid complexity

Responsibilities

• Build supply plans for business partners who support Target Owned Brands within our Frozen category.
• 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, while optimizing inventory aging.
• Play a key strategic problem-solving role, partnering with both business partners and internal stakeholders including Planning & Inventory Management, Supplier Management, and 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 specific to the temperature control business.
• 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