Dickies: Senior Analyst, Global Supply Planning

For over a century, Dickies has been worn by those forging their own path to shape the world we live in. We celebrate the can-do spirit of tradespeople, skaters, and doers who continue to put their trust in us. And we’re ready for the next 100 years of rolling up our sleeves alongside them, creating styles that work as hard as they do.

So, before we get to the job details, take a minute to learn a little more about us – our values and our culture. If you can see yourself working side-by-side with a team dedicated to those people that work hard and play harder, Dickies just may be the place for you.

To learn more about our values and our culture, visit Dickies Careers or www.dickies.com.

What will you do?

A day in the life of a Senior Analyst, Global Supply Planner at Dickies looks a little like this.

Global Supply Planning Senior Analyst will be responsible for leading the coordination of global activities to deliver supply requirements between the sourcing, materials, demand, and regional supply planning teams.  You will work to create various strategies, processes, and guidelines for the global supply planning team to optimize on time deliveries to meet customer needs. Key partners will include global sourcing, regional supply planning, regional demand planning, global product, global merchandising, and global materials. 

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.

• Drive global supply planning activities from pre-season to in-season.

• Develop and implement global processes to ensure strategic procurement of supply considering vendor capacity, production lead times, greige fabric commitments, buy readiness and production minimum requirements.

• Complete analysis of global monthly buys to provide global direction, identify key insights, prepare summaries of findings and present to supply planning leadership, sourcing, and regional planning teams.

• Lead monthly global buy handover process. Coordinate with regional supply planning teams to share key insights and variances from prior forecast publication at a global and regional level to sourcing.

• Lead supply chain seasonal kickoff meeting to set expectations and outline key strategies prior to the start of each season including participants from regional supply planning, materials, sourcing, global merch, and demand planning.

• Own and run all global Dickies buy strategy for the brand collaborations and special collections with close partnership to the product and merchandising teams.

• Own global communication on buy timing and greige risk assessment for the brand.

• Participate in and lead key projects to evolve supply chain capabilities.

• Utilize reporting and analytics tools to automate and visualize current manual processes.

• Serve as an expert is helping analyst development and provide backup support for manager.

What do you need to succeed?

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you’ll need to succeed and excel. Additionally, while formal education in a related field is great to have, we are most interested in your 3+ years of experience and professional achievements.

The foundation skills you will need in this position are:

• Strong communication skills that show ability to collaborate and drive results.

• Ability to understand, assess, & problem solve by leveraging technical and analytical skills.  

• Process oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.

• Advanced Excel Skills (pivot tables, macros) and an understanding of reporting and analytics tools.

• Ability to work effectively within a cross-functional team environment.  

• Experience in project management and implementation.

• Self-starter with excellent follow through.

• Strong people skills with ability to understand and support various perspectives across regions.

• Willing to work in a global role and accommodate for different regional time zones.

• Up to 10% travel expected.

• Location requirement: this position is hybrid, minimum 3 days in the Dickies office, in Costa Mesa, California.

Special Physical and/or Mental Requirements:

• Up to 10% travel may be required.

What do we offer you?

At Dickies, we know you expect as much from us as we do from you. That is why we make a commitment to support and grow our people. We offer extensi