Senior Planner, Strategic Planning

How You Will Make a Difference

As a member of the Product Supply’s Global Planning team, you are responsible for analyzing, managing, and executing longer-term, strategic planning tasks related to long range capacity planning, pre & in-season supply planning process to optimize supply availability to global markets.

You are responsible to assess and mitigate any potential supply risk due to demand variations, capacity constraints, fabric and materials constraints and forecast variances etc.

To succeed, you will have to build strong relationship with internal (Product Supply teams & Brand teams) and external stakeholders (vendors). You will utilize your strong analytical skill sets to drive decision making that ensures processes are integrated and aligned across all regions.

Manage end-to-end analyses; identify issues, gather information from various sources, analyze data, interpret patterns and trends, build models, give recommendations, and create insightful automated reports.

How you will do it

Support the Planning Manager on current planning processes and key areas of responsibility, and making process improvements for efficiency and in line with team and company strategy.

Support long range planning (Multi Horizon Planning) activities with internal and external stakeholders – drawing up robust plans that are aligned with the sourcing strategy and address key planning scenarios.

Understand demand forecasts and market information from regions, and use this to drive conversations and decisions for seasonal and long-range planning.

Carry out analyses to discover possible risks in supply and plan.

Execute the buy process to optimize the product availability, including analyzing and finalizing the PR allocation, projecting the planned production date and aligning the CRD with vendors.

Automate and validate newly created reports and develop corrective actions to improve data integrity and quality.

Analyze existing reports and optimize them for standardization across the company.

Support ad-hoc data requests, reporting.

Competency Requirements: Behavioral Competencies -

Team player with an ability to function effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Embrace change proactively takes action to prepare the team to respond to changes.

Ensure effective internal and external communication. Drive internal and external collaboration.

Able to work under pressure with multiple tasks simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines

Analytical mind and business acumen, able to work with large amount of data to discover trends and capable to form conclusions based on findings. Must be extremely detailed oriented.

Experience with working in a team spread out in various geographical locations.

Value diversity - working effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, interpersonal styles, abilities, motivations, or backgrounds. Highest level of integrity, ethics, and honesty; agility.

Drive and passion – present a positive outlook at all times and demonstrates a growth mindset

Functional and other Competencies –

Excellent English (writing and speaking) skills.

Excellent Excel, Power Point and Presentation skill.

Adept at the use of analytics tools as SQL, Tableau, Python, Power BI, Knime

Experience with planning system an advantage. Possesses deep functional subject matter knowledge.

Understanding of supply chain processes, with experience in forecasting and S&OP.

Role Requirements

Having 2-4 years’ relevant experience. Prior experience in supply chain planning (demand/ supply) and set up and maintain BI tools, infrastructure, and integration with company data sources

Strong written and oral communication skills. Leadership management skill is a plus.

Free to Be, Inclusion & Diversity

As a purpose-led, performance driven company, we strive to foster a culture of belonging based on respect, connection, openness, and authenticity. We are committed to building and maintaining a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our associates, allowing them to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

VF Guiding Principles: Live with Integrity, Act Courageously, Be Curious, Act with Empathy, and Persevere.

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