Sr Manager Global Supply Planning

Target • Minneapolis, MN

8d • $95,000 - $171,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr Manager Global Supply Planning, Apparel, will serve as a strategic leader shaping and activating collaborative supply plans that deliver speed, flexibility, reliability, and growth for Target Owned Brands. This role operates at the intersection of Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, and global vendor partners, strategically aligning supply & capacity to merchant and sourcing strategies. The position supports multiple divisions, influences senior cross-functional leaders and global teams to drive OB supply resilience, inform sourcing decisions, and enable enterprise-level outcomes. The role is performed in office 4 days per week in Minneapolis. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.

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