Director, Supply Planning & Purchasing

• Location 9700 Commerce Parkway,Lenexa, KS, 66219,United States
• Employee Type Full Time Exempt
• Required Degree 2 Year Degree
• Manage Others Yes

The Director of Supply Planning & Purchasing owns the purchasing and inventory strategy for blank apparel — tees, fleece, performance wear, and other decoration-ready stock — that feeds our decoration operations. This role manages purchasing against the open-to-buy plan in close partnership with Finance, sets safety stock to hit customer service-level targets, and serves as an integral, standing voice in the monthly S&OP process.

The ideal candidate is comfortable managing a broad and varied SKU portfolio across multiple classifications and suppliers with differing lead times, and translating demand signals from Demand Planning into a purchasing plan that keeps decoration operations running without interruption.

Unrivaled Teamwear is the fast-growing parent company behind Gear for Sports and Knights Apparel. Headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, we design, decorate, and deliver team gear — tees, fleece, performance wear, outerwear, headwear, and accessories — for customers ranging from big box retailers, college bookstores, golf courses and resorts, and national retailers.

We've grown quickly over the past year and expect that growth to continue. We are looking for motivated candidates looking to grow their career alongside the business.

• Plan and place purchase orders for blank apparel across a portfolio of suppliers, balancing cost, quality, and speed.
• Own purchasing execution against the open-to-buy (OTB) plan — pacing commitments to budgeted inventory investment, flagging variances early, and reconciling actuals against plan on a recurring cadence.
• Partner with Finance on OTB development, inventory investment targets, working-capital planning, and cost/landed-cost assumptions.
• Manage a broad and varied SKU portfolio spanning multiple product classifications, fabrications, and price points, sourced from a diverse supplier base with differing lead times, minimums, and capacity constraints.

• Build and maintain rolling supply plans that translate demand into supplier commitments, blending historical sell-through, seasonal team/league programs, and licensed-goods demand spikes.
• Partner closely with the Demand Planning and Forecasting team to align on demand signals, consumption assumptions, and forecast accuracy, ensuring purchasing plans are built on a shared, trusted number.
• Set and continuously tune safety stock policy by SKU/category to hit target customer service levels, balancing fill-rate commitments against inventory carrying cost.

• Serve as an integral, standing participant in the monthly sales & operations planning (S&OP) process, bringing the purchasing and supply view to the table alongside Sales, Licensing, Demand Planning, and Finance.
• Coordinate with Sourcing and Product Development on category strategies and cost initiatives without compromising quality or service levels.
• Manage blank goods inventory across distribution locations, driving turns, minimizing aged and excess stock, and resolving allocation conflicts when demand outpaces supply.
• Anticipate and manage supply disruptions —capacity constraints, freight delays, tariff or cost shifts — and build contingency plans that protect customer commitments.

• Maintain forecasting and purchasing data in the ERP/planning system (Logility), building management-ready reporting on OTB position, fill rates, lead times, and supplier performance.
• Identify and drive improvements to planning tools and processes as SKU count and order volume scale.
• Build, coach, and…