World Wide Planning Manager

Key job responsibilities

• Execute production strategies across the product lifecycle, including new product builds, weekly production forecasts, and long-range planning inputs.
• Own and maintain supply planning KPIs (ie: weeks of cover, in-stock rates, air mix, and EOL inventory).
• Develop and maintain production schedules using capacity plans, material constraints, and demand forecasts.
• Maintain monitoring demand changes and assess supply impact; communicate risks and gaps to stakeholders proactively.
• Place weekly purchase orders to meet Global Allocation requirements in Amazon systems, collaborating with regional allocation planners.
• Generate and distribute supply planning reports (air mix, WOC, in-stock availability, etc.).
• Support cost and risk mitigation efforts including transportation mode optimization, inventory carrying cost reduction, and waste/scrap minimization.
• Use AI-powered analytics to surface supply chain insights and support more informed decision making.
• Build and maintain automated solutions for routine planning tasks and reporting.
• Leverage AI for scenario planning to accelerate and improve decision quality.
• Apply data-driven approaches to inventory and production optimization.

A day in the life

• Analyzing weekly demand fluctuations and the corresponding supply impact.
• Monitoring planned vs. actual production metrics.
• Planning the proper inventory needed to be allocated across different sales channels and regions.
• Communicating supply constraints to stakeholders (sales, marketing, demand, category, leadership).
• Leveraging AI to improve ways of working and to help drive speed and efficiency.
• Making data-driven decisions and effectively report on individual and team KPIs.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience
• 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
• 3+ years of supply chain experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
• 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules