Principal Omni Planner at Columbia Sportswear Company

Seoul, , South Korea -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

22 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

24 Nov, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Analytical Skills, Problem Solving, Collaboration, Communication, Leadership, Financial Analysis, Scenario Planning, Trend Analysis, Data Management, Dashboard Creation, KPI Improvement, Integrated Business Planning, Project Management, Technical Development, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Cognos

Industry

Retail Apparel and Fashion

Description

Job Summary: The Principal Omni Planner plays a key role in providing planning and supply chain operations analytics. Integrates into the business locally with key business partners to become a regional expert across the supply chain. Drives scenario planning and trend analysis and provides recommendations to senior leadership to support the company in focusing on the consumer, supporting brand growth, and achieving profitability. Responsibilities: Drives business results and outcomes focused on region, brand, and channel providing multi-disciplined analytics, business process changes, and recommendations for KPI improvement. Provides scenario planning and trend analysis to determine how key KPIs are tracking to goals. Leverages and navigates needs between regional and global topics. Develops and manages financial updates for monthly and quarterly reporting deliverables. Provides leadership in translating metrics and tools for key stakeholders across the organization. Creates dashboards to visually present metrics and key KPIs and uses storytelling to highlight key takeaways and action items across regions, brands, and channels. Possesses a strong understanding of key Integrated Business Planning processes and data with ability to bridge and directly work with technical development teams to build long-term solutions and support strategic initiatives. Leads cross-functional projects across the business to effectively drive change in service, cost, and inventory. Possesses a thorough understanding of the up-stream and the down-stream processes and high-level systems flow in order to determine the impact of process changes. Provides leadership in determining gaps and opportunities in the effectiveness of regional and/or global planning and operations systems and processes. 5% Performs other duties as assigned. People Management Expectations: Additional Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience. • Typically requires 8+ years of professional experience and mastery of relevant technical or business skills required to accomplish the job. • Superior analytical and problem solving skills • Proactive and assertive in follow-through with colleagues and business partners • Must demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness and monitoring of own work to ensure quality • Strong collaboration and influence skills • Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to write clear and concise business communication • Ability to handle highly confidential materials and information • Ability to apply experience and knowledge to provide creative solutions to problems • Ability to understand and translate moderately technical concepts verbally and in writing • Ability to prioritize tasks and respond to urgent requests/inquiries with minimal supervisory involvement • Significant experience using Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets, charts and pivot tables; using of functions such as sumif, vlookup, and similar • Experience using Microsoft Access and Cognos including running preformatted reports and creating simple queries • Travel: Occasional - 10% • Work Schedule: Standard Hours Career Band: Professional Jobs on this career band have a knowledge management focus and are primarily responsible for results achieved through their own work. Requires the application of theoretical knowledge, typically gained through formal education or equivalent work experience that provides knowledge of and exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts of a defined profession. Jobs at higher career levels may guide small teams in their area of subject matter expertise. Jobs at the at the most senior levels of this career band set disciplinary strategy within their areas of expertise. Criteria & Management Requirements: • Problem Solving: Identifies and solves complex problems that impact multiple areas. Applies independent analysis based on in-depth research and critical thinking to recommend solutions. • Decisions: Routinely analyzes unique issues or problems and functions with a high degree of autonomy. • Knowledge: Requires specialized knowledge and expertise in own job discipline and deep experience in integrating related disciplinary knowledge. Applies specialized knowledge of industry standards/practices on key projects and initiatives. • Business Acumen: Interprets internal/external business challenges. Recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services to distinguish from the competition. • Communication & Influence: Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view. Converts technical information to compelling business context and advice. • Impact: Decisions will have significant impact to multiple departments or disciplines. • Leadership: Manages projects and end to end programs with moderate resource requirements, risk and/or complexity. Provides training and leadership for other team members. Key role in planning and coordinating with others for projects or tasks. May contribute input to the performance review of other team members. Primary role is an individual contributor however may also manage one lower level employee. 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. Columbia is different. As a global apparel and footwear company with over 80 years of being ourselves and not apologizing for it, we’ve seen a lot and done a lot. But our motto remains: “It’s perfect. now make it better.” Learn more about how you can help us shape the next 80 years here.

Responsibilities

The Principal Omni Planner drives business results through analytics and recommendations for KPI improvement. They lead cross-functional projects and provide scenario planning and trend analysis to support strategic initiatives.