Columbia Sportswear

Senior Planning Operations Analyst

Columbia Sportswear$85K — $110K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Supply Chain Management, Business, or similar fields
  • 5-8 years professional experience with mastery in relevant functions
  • 5+ years in decision support tools and business analyst roles
  • Strong understanding of planning applications and related data
  • Experience as a Business Process Analyst leveraging analytics for decision-making
  • Desired knowledge in product creation, manufacturing, and supply chain processes
  • Omni-channel experience in the retail industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Global Planning business process for Fulfillment planning
  • Act as subject matter expert and engage business stakeholders to define requirements
  • Drive Global Planning capabilities and lead towards desired outcomes
  • Anticipate and communicate issues to program sponsors and stakeholders
  • Define business use cases and ensure clarity in backlog management
  • Champion business priorities through program deliverables
  • Lead a community of super users to enhance fulfillment planning processes
  • Facilitate ongoing education for current processes and tool enhancements

Benefits

  • 401k plan with generous company match
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life and disability insurance coverage
  • Flexible spending accounts and health savings account options
  • Access to voluntary benefit offerings including accident and critical illness insurance
  • Free, confidential EAP + services available 24/7
  • Extensive wellness benefits and employee discounts
  • Generous time off program
Full Job Description
This position is designated as a hybrid role based out of our headquarters near Portland, Oregon. The current expectation is for employees to work onsite four days per week, subject to change based on business needs. This in-office requirement may be adjusted at the discretion of the company.

POSITION SUMMARY

As the Senior Planning Operations Analyst focused on our Global Planning end-to-end business process and capabilities, you are the functional area leader for Fulfillment. This position will be focused leading and driving seasonal process and continuous improvement efforts associated to Fulfillment planning across the different brands, regions and channels. You are the business process owner and the global go-to person regarding the fulfillment process, capabilities, and relevant key performance indicators. In addition to process and capabilities, you have a working knowledge of associated analytics to inform and enable the related business processes.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
  • Owns the Global Planning business process associated to Fulfillment planning encompassing planning application and analytical capabilities
  • Act as functional SME as well as engage business SMEs to define requirements, support of solutions and deliver against defined Supply Chain and Enterprise priorities
  • Strong leadership and ability to drive towards Global Planning capabilities and desired outcomes
  • Anticipate and communicate issues and key decisions to program sponsors and stakeholders Defines business use cases, user stories, and/or business requirement while ensuring clarity within the backlog
  • Champion business priorities and requirements through program deliverables as necessary
  • You will work as the functional global lead for fulfillment planning to determine omni-channel needs priorities in support of Global Planning Leadership
  • Anticipate and communicate issues and key decisions to Global Planning Leadership and/or program leadership
  • Matrix leader of a super user community driving and facilitating process, capability, and analytics updates and enhancements associated with fulfillment planning
  • Support and coordination of other users validating enhancements for business process, planning tool and associated analytical capabilities
  • Drives and facilitates continuing education of current business process and associated enhancements to planning applications and/or related reporting that informs the process
  • Performs other duties as assigned


YOU HAVE
  • Bachelor's degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience in Supply Chain Management, Business, Management, Merchandise Planning, or similar fields
  • Requires 5-8 years of professional experience and mastery of relevant function/process experience business skills
  • 5+ years of experience with decision support tools and processes in a business process/analyst capacity
  • Ability to relate planning application and associated data to business process need
  • Business Process Analyst experience defining business process and leveraging analytics to inform decision making
  • Business acumen across product creation, manufacturing, supply chain (demand and supply planning), finance and retail desired
  • Work experience reflects a progression of increasing responsibility.
  • Omni-channel experience and Retail industry knowledge is desired


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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we're proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family's financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to [redacted] with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.

About Columbia Sportswear

Columbia Sportswear Company is a leading innovator in the global outdoor apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment industry. The company designs, develops, markets and distributes active outdoor and lifestyle products under the Columbia, Mountain Hardwear, Sorel, and prAna brands. Columbia Sportswear products are sold in more than 100 countries and have earned an international reputation for innovation, quality and performance. The company has a long-standing commitment to responsible sourcing, ethical business practices, and environmental stewardship.
Learn more about Columbia Sportswear
Size
8,325 employees
Market Cap
$5.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$108 million
Founded
1938
5 Year Trend
+5.6%
Revenue
$2.5 billion
NASDAQ

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