replenishment planner

About the role

In this role, you will own replenishment strategy and execution for a category within the Food & Lobby portfolio, ensuring products are available when customers want them while balancing waste, inventory investment, and financial performance. You will leverage analytics, business insight, and cross-functional partnerships to navigate innovation launches, product transitions, demand shifts, and operational challenges. As a trusted business partner, you will proactively identify risks, recommend actions, and influence decisions that improve the customer experience and drive business results.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute replenishment strategies that optimize product availability, inventory health, and waste performance while identifying risks and opportunities that drive sales growth, customer experience, and financial results for the Food & Lobby portfolio.
• Lead replenishment planning for innovation launches, limited time offers, and product transitions, partnering across Supply Chain, Operations, and commercialization teams to balance service levels and executional success.
• Leverage inventory, forecast, sales, and ordering data to generate actionable insights, improve decision-making, and develop scalable reporting and automation that enhance planning effectiveness.
• Build trusted cross-functional partnerships, influence key inventory and operational decisions, and communicate complex business issues and recommendations clearly to stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Drive continuous improvement by challenging existing processes, leading initiatives that improve inventory performance and operational efficiency, and adopting new tools and technologies to advance replenishment capabilities.

Requirements

• 2-3 years of experience in Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Replenishment Planning, Demand Planning, or a related analytical function.
• Advanced Excel skills, including modeling, scenario analysis, and large data-set management.
• Experience with SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, or other analytics tools preferred.
• Interest in AI and automation, with a passion for improving business processes through technology.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to navigate ambiguity and make decisions with incomplete information.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and build productive cross-functional partnerships.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits.
• Short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement.
• Paid vacation from date of hire (accrued up to a maximum of 120 hours annually for roles below director and 200 hours for roles at director or above; 190 hours in CA for roles below director and 316 hours in CA for roles at director or above), sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked), eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock).
• Incentivized emergency savings and financial well-being tools.
• 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan.
• Student loan management resources and access to other educational opportunities.
• Backup care and DACA reimbursement.

Schedule

Onsite four days a week.