Role: Supply Chain Management Project Lead

Team: Supply Planning

Scope: Individual Contributor

Years of Experience: 3+

Location: Ventura, CA

COVID-19 Vaccinations: Patagonia requires all employees to demonstrate proof of receiving a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of their employment.

AS the Supply Chain Management Project Lead, you will play a key role in supporting and driving solutions with the Supply Planning team.  You will work closely with the Supply Planning team to ensure that finished good receipt plans are created to best meet the inventory requirements of global customers across multiple selling channels.  As the Supply Chain Management Project Lead, you will interact and communicate with Forecasting, IT Finance, Product, and Production teams to identify, style classifications, inventory trends, and constraints.

What You’ll Do

Analytic Duties

• Identify areas for process improvements, work with key stakeholders to provide visibility to supply chain and planning.
• Analyze inventory trends and make suggestions to prioritize, expedite or delay open supplier Purchase Orders.
• Proactively partner with Production and Channel Teams to report product and material availability issues for an assigned subset of styles.
• Support key stakeholders with weekly reporting.
• Conduct ad-hoc inventory analysis as needed.

Operational

• Determine global supply buy quantities using forecast, open orders, supply landscape and trend analysis for a subset of styles.
• Support Sublevel Purchase Orders process for assigned categories.
• Identify scenarios when it may be necessary to buy additional product to meet minimum order quantities and advise product surcharge options.
• Performs ad-hoc duties as needed to support the Supply Planning Team.
• Partner with Social/ Environmental and Supply Planning Teams to ensure our production planning and purchasing practices do not negatively impact working conditions within our supply chain.

Who You Are

• Problem Solver – identifies problems in the supply chain and investigates potential solutions
• Adaptable – Able to work to an ever-changing global supply chain landscape
• Strategic – able to see the end goal, then identify and plan how to get there
• Investigative -has a natural curiosity to find they “why” and explain to others
• Communicative- able to take complex data and problems, and communicate to a larger audience

Experience You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain or related field required or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of work experience in a forecast, merchandise, or supply planning environment.
• Experience with large scale ERP, or planning systems.
• Highly proficient with MS Office, especially MS Excel.
• Must have a general understanding of the upstream and downstream of supply chain process.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively across multiple functions.
• Comfortable with team-based work structure; ability to demonstrate flexibility on the job.

Employee Conduct

It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers and vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.