Manager Global Supply Planning - Food & Beverage (Dairy) | Hybrid / Remote (Remote Eligible)

Global Supply Planning Manager, Food & Beverage

Target is an iconic, beloved and well recognized brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America's leading retailers. 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. Are you a creative problem solver who loves to see your work translate into real results? Can you collaborate effectively, execute a plan efficiently and positively influence how Target chooses and presents the right product in the right place at the right price? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.

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 capacity is available to manufacture the right product, at the right time and in the right location. The role is one of the key links between the manufacturing factories, Global Sourcing, Product Development and Design, Planning & Inventory Management, Finance, and Supply Chain. This new capability is still being scaled, which allows for creative thinking and leadership opportunities.

As a Global Supply Planning Manager, Food & Beverage, you will work with cross-functional teams to build supply plans for business partners who support Target Owned Brands within our Dairy 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. 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 Brand Sourcing and Development, 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 3 days in our Minneapolis HQ location. In office requirements may evolve in accordance with internal policies.

About you :

• 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

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. A Hybrid / Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Team Members in the Target General Merch Inc operating company are prohibited from working more than thirty (30) days per calendar year in any of the following states : AL, AR, DE, FL, IN, IA, LA, MD, MS, MO, NC, OK, PA, SC, TN and VA. If hired, you will be prohibited from working remotely from any of the states listed above for more than thirty (30) days per calendar year.