Senior Manager, Supplier Management

About the role

The Physical Retail Planning & Allocation team creates a differentiated in-store experience by ensuring customers can find the right products, in the right stores, at the right time. We partner across Merchandising, Curated Merchandising/Category Management, Supplier Inventory Management (SIM), Operations, Visual Presentation, and Store teams to connect assortment strategy with inventory availability and store execution. This role will focus on Frequency departments, with primary ownership of Textile and Decor categories. We are seeking a strategic and analytically rigorous Senior Planner to own inventory strategy for Textile and Decor across our retail stores. This person will translate assortment and category strategies into executable inventory plans, identify and close availability gaps, and establish scalable ways of working across Planning & Allocation and partner teams. The Senior Planner will serve as a senior thought partner to CM and Merchants on assortment and supplier strategy, work closely with SIM to secure inventory and resolve supply constraints, and build feedback loops with Store teams to incorporate customer and frontline insights into planning decisions. This is an L4 role. The ideal candidate can define ambiguous problems, make tradeoffs across competing priorities, influence senior partners, and turn inventory challenges into clear strategies and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own category inventory strategy
• Develop end-to-end inventory strategies for Textile and Decor across stores, balancing in-stock performance, assortment productivity, turns, margin, working capital, and customer experience.
• Translate merchant and CM assortment visions into forecasts, stocking strategies, store-level inventory requirements, allocation principles, and replenishment approaches.
• Define differentiated strategies for hero, core, seasonal, newness, display-driven, and emerging items.
• Establish decision criteria for when to buy, replenish, allocate, substitute, swap, or exit products.
• Connect inventory recommendations to sales, margin, open-to-buy, and broader retail financial goals.
• Define the approach to securing store inventory
• Establish a scalable operating model with clear ownership, decision rights, supplier commitments, escalation paths, milestones, and performance measures.
• Identify root causes of inventory gaps, including supplier capacity, forecast accuracy, lead times, MOQs, case packs, transportation, network availability, and assortment strategy.
• Define near-term mitigation levers, including prioritization, reallocations, alternate fulfillment, substitutions, assortment changes, expedited supply, and targeted supplier commitments.
• Develop long-term solutions, such as supplier stocking strategies, improved forecasting, assortment simplification,