Junior Supply Planner

OVERVIEW

The Junior Supply Planner supports pre-season supply planning by maintaining high-quality planning data, improving system readiness, and helping translate finished-goods forecasts into raw-material requirements. This role supports the Supply Planning team’s strategies and initiatives, ensuring key data, tools, and planning processes are accurate, scalable, and ready to support seasonal execution.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support pre-season supply planning for seasonal collections, replenishment programs, and carryover products.
• Translate finished-goods forecasts into raw-material requirements, considering bills of materials, production lead times, minimum order quantities, supplier capacity, material availability, and delivery windows.
• Support the expansion of component-planning processes to include trims and packaging as the business evolves.
• Maintain and improve the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of planning data across planning, ERP, PLM, and reporting systems.
• Perform system clean-up, data validation, and ongoing maintenance to ensure master data, planning assumptions, product attributes, lead times, and supply parameters are reliable.
• Assist with the creation, testing, implementation, and documentation of supply planning projects, tools, reports, and process improvements.
• Support the implementation of supply planning strategies, including process changes, inventory initiatives, capacity plans, and planning-system enhancements.
• Prepare analyses and recurring reports to support supply planning decisions, including raw-material requirements, capacity needs, inventory implications, supply risks, and planning assumptions.
• Partner with Raw Materials, Product Development, Production, and vendor teams to validate material readiness, sourcing details, production timelines, and supply constraints.
• Assist with what-if analyses to assess the impact of changes in demand, assortment, sourcing, capacity, MOQ, lead times, or delivery dates.
• Prepare materials for planning meetings, document key decisions, track action items, and communicate updates to cross-functional partners.
• Identify opportunities to improve data integrity, reporting visibility, planning accuracy, and process efficiency.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations, Analytics, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience in supply planning, production planning, inventory planning, operations, or data analysis will also be considered.
• 0–2 years of experience in supply planning, production planning, inventory planning, merchandising, operations, data analysis, or a related function; apparel, fashion, footwear, or consumer-goods experience is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Intermediate proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, formulas, and data analysis.
• Familiarity with ERP, planning, PLM, or reporting systems such as SAP, Oracle, JDA/Blue Yonder, Anaplan, or similar platforms is preferred.
• Basic understanding of supply chain concepts, including demand forecasting, bills of materials, production lead times, MOQ, capacity, inventory, and seasonal planning.
• Demonstrated interest in systems, data quality, process improvement, and project implementation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams and global partners.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and adapt in a fast-paced, seasonal environment.
• Curiosity, ownership, and a willingness to learn in a dynamic retail and apparel business.