About the Role
This position will be located 100% in the Irving, TX Corporate Office.
Lead Trust. Enable Innovation. Shape the Future. We are looking for a visionary and results-oriented Senior Director, Inventory Planning & Replenishment to shape and execute the company's inventory strategy. Reporting into the SVP Demand Chain, this role will drive end-to-end replenishment performance across stores, distribution centers, and digital channels, ensuring the right products are in the right place at the right time while delivering best-in-class customer service levels and inventory productivity.
What You'll Do
- Define, Design & Lead enterprise-wide inventory planning and replenishment strategies.
- Establish replenishment policies, safety stock methodologies, and service level targets.
- Lead daily, weekly, and monthly replenishment planning and execution across distribution, stores & digital channels.
- Own inventory KPIs including service levels, fill rates, inventory turns, and working capital.
- Drive planning system implementation and optimization including AI-enabled solutions.
- Partner with Merchandising, Private Brands, Wholesalers, FMCG Vendors & 3PL’s to align replenishment signals.
- Build cross functional collaboration with Finance, Procurement, Logistics, Distribution, Merchandising & Technology.
- Coach, build and develop a high-performing inventory planning organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, or related field. Masters Preferred
- 15+ years of inventory planning, replenishment, or supply chain planning experience.
- Ideal candidates will bring deep inventory planning and replenishment expertise from large-scale retail or consumer-facing organizations and have meaningful experience supporting private label/private brand businesses, where inventory availability, speed to market, and supplier collaboration are critical to commercial success.
- Significant experience supporting private label/private brand businesses within retail, grocery, convenience, consumer products, pharmacy, club, or omnichannel environments.
- Demonstrated success developing inventory, replenishment, and supply chain strategies for private brand portfolios.
- Experience partnering directly with Merchandising, Category Management, Product Development, and Supplier organizations to support private label growth initiatives.
- Proven leadership managing high-performing teams.
- Deep expertise in inventory optimization and replenishment methodologies.
- Experience with modern planning platforms such as Blue Yonder
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