Position Details: Title: Manager, Inventory Analytics & S&OE Department: Business PlanningReports to: VP, Business PlanningLocation: DearbornJob Classification: RemoteFLSA Status: ExemptJob Band: ManagerJob Summary The Manager of Inventory Analytics & S&OE will lead a team of inventory analysts in a strategic leadership role dedicated to driving operational excellence, mitigating risk, and ensuring on-time serviceability to customers. Serving as the critical bridge between supply planning, cross-functional partners, and executive leadership, this role leads the S&OE process to balance supply and demand and navigate network constraints. Beyond process governance, this leader is responsible for building a culture of collaboration, actively coaching and developing a high-performing team, and guiding data-driven decision-making to continuously accelerate organizational maturity and operational success.
Associate Responsibilities - Inspire, coach, mentor, and develop direct reports, fostering an inclusive environment that supports strong performance, professional growth, and team engagement.
- Lead and facilitate the S&OE process, driving weekly meetings to identify key risks and opportunities for current and upcoming seasons while continuously working to evolve and accelerate S&OE maturity.
- Build and leverage strong cross-functional relationships to influence decision-making, support change management, and drive collaborative solutions across the organization.
- Partner with Supply Planning leadership to thoroughly understand network constraints, working cross-functionally to align on capacity prioritization and ensure effective supply/demand matching.
- Identify risks and opportunities proactively, collaborating across teams to mitigate issues, drive action plans, and ultimately working to improve on-time serviceability to customers.
- Communicate effectively to cross-functional partners via the S&OE process, ensuring clear visibility into business impacts, setting expectations, and defining clear next steps and actions for each functional area.
- Provide cross-functional support for broader S&OE activities, managing the critical inputs and outputs that feed into the overarching SIOP process.
- Facilitate the S&OE forum, effectively bridging the gap between operational execution and executive strategy to provide senior leadership with clear visibility and drive actionable, executive-level decision-making.
Required Education - Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent years of related experience
Required Skills & Experience - Minimum of 6 years of experience in a planning or forecasting field; in addition to 3 years of leadership experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, tailored to ensure clear visibility and aligned expectations across all functional areas.
- Proven track record of managing, coaching, and developing a team of direct reports, with a strong focus on fostering professional growth and high performance.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust, foster collaboration, and influence cross-functional decision-making without always having direct authority.
- Ability to identify gaps in current processes and leverage best practices to accelerate organizational maturity (specifically within S&OE).
- Outstanding organizational skills with demonstrated ability to prioritize workload, delegate work and concurrently manage multiple projects.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify potential risks, forecast surplus or shortfalls, and develop proactive mitigation strategies.
- Strong computer skills (MS Office Suite and Planning tools) with advanced Excel skills.
- Retail or Wholesale Planning Solution experience preferred
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions - Typical office environment; cubicle/office setting
- Extended periods of time sitting, standing, typing on a computer is required
- Travel required, may be up to 20% of time
- This position has a Remote location: Associate will have no regular requirement to be on-site. Travel on-site is limited to special events.
- Carhartt is a tobacco free workplace.
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All associates are required to understand and act in accordance with the Carhartt Core Values. Carhartt reserves the right to change, modify, suspend, interpret or cancel in whole or in any part, the job duties outlined above at any time and without advance notice to the employee.
