Columbia Sportswear’s dynamic global supply chain consists of 4 distribution centers, 430 retail stores, 80 apparel factories and 20 footwear factories worldwide. We pride ourselves on being able to get products to market quickly, safely, and in the most cost-effective manner. By leveraging data analytics, we are constantly pushing to make smarter business decisions and identifying innovative ways to make Columbia Sportswear’s supply chain more efficient and effective to meet our consumers’ ever-changing needs.

The Senior Manager, Supply Chain Operations & Network Planning is accountable for developing and executing Columbia Sportswear Company's supply chain network planning roadmap and the specific strategies, business processes and leading and/or influencing teams that will yield best in class supply chain operations capabilities. Additionally, this person will lead the ongoing development and updates for our multi-year SC network planning and modeling roadmap.

This leader will emphasize fulfilment, speed, and agility in direct support of the omni-channel strategic imperative and continued growth in sales; they will develop and deliver a supply chain network planning vision and operating model that defines the future aspirations, initiatives/tactics, investments, and organizations required to fundamentally transform current capabilities.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Lead and strategically influence omni-channel supply chain operations functions that delivers on the forward-thinking strategies.
• Build powerful strategic alliances and collaborate across brands, departments, and regions.
• Provide thought leadership and facilitate cross-functional problem solving with impacted operations domains (regions, brands, stores, ecommerce, distribution, logistics, fulfillment).
• Introduce advanced supply chain continuous improvement and distribution/logistics tools/methodologies/systems to help the business deliver results in customer fulfillment, quality, cost, inventory management.
• Drive continuous improvements in omni-channel fulfillment cost as a percentage of sales.
• Lead capabilities and forward-thinking strategies for distribution capacity constraints.
• Lead capabilities to impact end to end SC processes impacting things like freight optimization and inventory optimization models.

YOU HAVE

• 10+ years’ experience in supply chain, with a deep understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes
• Strong leadership capabilities with experience managing a team
• Experience driving change in the supply chain, particularly related to network optimization and fulfillment capabilities
• Ability to work with ambiguity and translate strategic vision into an operational roadmap
• Creative problem solver
• Background in apparel and footwear, retail, or related industry, with experience in a large, matrix organization

Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.

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 (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.