Manager Mid-Term Supply Network Planning Temporary

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

SCP (Supply Chain Planning) is a global team focussed on E2E S&OP/E planning and execution across 0-24 months horizon along with the global and market stakeholders. The Mid-term (MT) supply planning team within SCP is focused on E2E planning RCCP (rough cut capacity planning) for the Mid-term horizon (~12-24 months).

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare the MT supply plan, consolidating demand, supply, and capacity data across functions.
• Gather inputs, analyze variances, and prepare material for S&OP reviews with markets and global teams.
• Align with Demand Planning and Finance to maintain up‑to‑date assumptions in the RCCP model.
• Work with Sourcing Operations to update capacity constraints and production feasibility.
• Collaborate with Logistics teams to provide required inputs for inbound/outbound tendering processes.
• Coordinate with network and market planning teams to reconcile short‑/mid‑/long‑term assumptions.
• Create and maintain tools, templates, and reports required to run the MT planning process.
• Identify risks and support development of mitigation plans with relevant stakeholders, ensuring reliable MT planning outputs that support smoother S&OP cycles and capacity alignment.

 Project involvement as needed for mid term related planning tool/s systems:

• Operationalize IBP within S&OP: Develop and integrate processes, tools, models, and templates to embed the IBP engine into the planning landscape.
• Drive testing and adoption: Execute UAT/testing, document results, and support change management and training to ensure successful implementation.

Key Relationships:

• Market SCM
• Global Product Supply, Supply Chain Planning
• Global/ Market Demand Planning
• Global Distribution and network planning
• Brand Finance
• Data and analytics, Advanced analytics
• Digital SCM Solutions - Product owners
• Sourcing
• BUs
• External Consultants (As needed)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good business know-how of end-to-end supply chain principles and S&OP/E process.
• Strong analytical and computational skills with a proven ability to identify process improvement opportunities, conduct root‑cause analysis, solve complex problems, and drive effective solutions.
• Proven collaboration skills and confidence in navigating matrix organization
• Excellent communication skills, across different groups of organization
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience of SAP IBP, Llamasoft or any other optimization tool or ETL tool (like Alteryx) preferred.
• Strong MS Office hands-on capabilities especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to handle complex assignments with ambiguous problem statements
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with different international cultures across different time zones.
• Fluent in English, additional language is a plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in supply chain management or in the areas of business administration, logistics, planning, and information systems. Master's degree is a plus.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in Supply chain management or related function in a global company, ideally in the sporting goods or retail industry.
• Relevant supply chain certifications like CSCP, CPIM etc. are a plus