Strategic Planning Associate, Global Supply Chain

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Team:

The Global Supply Chain (GSC) Strategy team provides strategic insights and direction to Mattel’s supply chain leadership. We take an active role in analyzing complex business problems and in developing actionable insights to drive decision-making along a multi-year timeline. 

Job Description

The Opportunity: 

The Associate will be responsible for gathering data across multiple functional areas, analyzing the data, and providing insights and direction that support Mattel’s GSC priorities and goals. This is an opportunity to work with supply chain teams around the world (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Quality). An ideal candidate is someone with strong analytical skills and the ability to process and synthesize data from multiple disparate sources. The outcome of this creates alignment between Mattel’s and Global Supply Chain’s long-term strategies.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Execute the three-year GSC strategic planning process.
• Track progress against scenarios and provide updates.
• Design and develop new templates and processes to evolve the process.
• Support key GSC strategic initiatives, including project management and ad hoc analysis.
• Analysis and Problem-Solving: Apply critical thinking to problems, deliver fact-based analysis, and quickly switch between strategic thinking and detailed analysis.
• Financial and Business Acumen:  Evaluate financial and business indicators and translate data into actionable information to drive results.
• Collaboration: Build constructive and effective cross-functional relationships to collaborate with a diverse range of key stakeholders and teams.
• Presentation: Communicate clearly and effectively in a variety of presentation settings including one-on-one, small, and large audiences, and with peers and senior leadership.

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree with 4 years of related experience, with 3 years of experience in supply chain management.
• Highly analytical and enjoys problem solving.
• Highly proactive and willing to constantly improve processes.
• Detailed orientated.
• Self-disciplined and able to multi-task in an organized way.
• Ability to build relationships across all levels.
• Comfortable adapting to rapidly changing business needs.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Advanced Excel skills including modeling, advance formulas, pivot tables, charts and managing large sets of data.
• Advanced PowerPoint skills for senior leadership and executive presentations.

Preferred:

• Experience with Tableau and Cognos
• Experience with VBA/SQL programming
• Strong foundational understanding of supply chain management
• Demonstrated a growth mindset by staying curious and continuously learning, embracing challenges, and improving themselves. 

The annual base salary range for this position is between $100,000 and $125,000.
**This range is indicative of projected hiring range, however annual base salary will be determined based on a candidate’s work location, skills and experience. Mattel offers competitive total pay programs, comprehensive benefits, and resources to help empower a culture where every employee can reach their full potential.

Additional Information

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How We Work:

We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

• We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our