Senior Distribution Planning Manager

Overview

The Senior Distribution Planning Manager owns the end-to-end planning operating system for the distribution center. The role translates demand, inventory flow, capacity, labor, equipment constraints, and customer commitments into executable daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, and peak operating plans. This leader is accountable for production planning, capacity strategy, labor and staffing modeling, wave and slotting strategy, planning accuracy, scenario analysis, and forward-looking risk identification.

The position leads the Production Planning / Production Control team and serves as a strategic planning advisor to site leadership while partnering across the distribution network to establish scalable planning standards and best practices.

Great brands reflect culture. The best ones help shape it. At Foot Locker, we’re rooted in sport, powered by style, and driven by the communities that move both. From Foot Locker and Kids Foot Locker to Champs Sports, WSS, and atmos, our brands sit at the intersection of sport, style, and self-expression.

As part of the DICK’S Sporting Goods family, you’re backed by the resources, reach, and career opportunities of a world-class sports company. That unleashes Foot Locker to keep pushing forward with the agility and edge that define the brand. We’re looking for great people who want to influence culture and the generation that is shaping what’s next.

Whether you’re building strategy, shaping innovations, or creating unforgettable customer moments, you’ll contribute to decisions and experiences that define our brands’ impact in the communities we serve.

• Own the end-to-end site planning process, translating demand forecasts, inventory flow, customer commitments, capacity constraints, and operational priorities into executable operating plans.
• Own the site production plan across inbound, storage, replenishment, Retail, DTC, RTV, picking, packing, shipping, and other operating channels, including planned volume, required labor hours, productivity assumptions, backlog trajectory, and service performance.
• Lead the site S&OP / integrated planning process, partnering with Operations, Transportation, Inventory Control, Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, IT, and network planning teams to align demand, capacity, labor, inventory, and service requirements.
• Own labor and staffing planning for the facility, including headcount requirements, staffing models, shift strategies, overtime requirements, temporary labor needs, and productivity assumptions based on forecasted workload.
• Develop and maintain short-, medium-, and long-range capacity models to identify constraints, available capacity, labor requirements, storage requirements, and service risk before they affect execution.
• Lead scenario planning and contingency modeling for demand spikes, equipment downtime, staffing shortages, inventory disruptions, promotional events, peak periods, weather events, transportation constraints, and other operational risks.
• Own the development of analytics, reporting, and planning tools that optimize how product is released and waved to production while protecting customer delivery commitments and operational productivity.
• Lead the Production Control team responsible for executing approved wave and release strategies, monitoring adherence to plan, escalating variance, and supporting recovery actions when execution deviates from plan.
• Serve as the site subject-matter expert for wave planning, production control, warehouse management planning functionality, and related planning processes; develop technical capability within the planning team and operating functions.
• Own the distribution center slotting strategy in partnership with Inventory Control and…