Sr Manager Global Supply Planning (Fun101)

Target • Minneapolis, MN

1d • $95,000 - $171,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Global Supply Planning Senior Manager, Fun101, you will serve as the strategic leader 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years relevant sourcing, planning, inventory management, and/or supply planning experience
• 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

• 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 3year OB plan that aligns merchant 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

• Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.
• Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.
• Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
• We care about and invest in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family.
• Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.
• Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.
• Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level