Operations Planner

At Bath & Body Works, we believe everybody deserves to feel good. When you join us, you're part of more than an iconic fragrance and personal care brand — you become part of Gingham Nation, where people are at the center of everything we do.

We believe great associate experiences create great consumer experiences. When our associates feel supported, inspired and empowered, consumers feel it. Whether you're starting your career or building your next chapter, we invest in your growth so you can learn, lead and help create feel good moments every day.

We are seeking an Operations Planner to join the Bath & Body Works Supply Chain Operations team. This individual contributor role is responsible for supporting our products moving from concept to customer. In this dynamic and highly collaborative role, you'll partner with teams across the business to anticipate future supply chain needs, manage component procurement, coordinate production schedules with vendor partners, and ensure finished products arrive at customer warehouses on time.

You'll play a critical role in maintaining the integrity of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) data, enabling accurate forecasting and a consistent planning horizon. If you enjoy solving problems, building partnerships, driving efficiencies, and finding creative ways to improve speed and execution, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact while helping bring our beloved products to life every day!

• Responsible for issuing components and finished good PO’s and the deliberations with vendors to secure production
• Handles scheduling while balancing priority between vendor base and MP&A
• Ensure vendor On Time & Complete accountability at 95% or higher
• Expediting shipments /production to meet speed initiatives
• Completes short-term and long-term capacity planning
• Communicates new launch forecasts and medium range receipt plans

• To form relationships as a trusted advisor to cross functional teams
• Handles speed to market initiatives
• Responsible for communicating/updating changes to open orders - status reporting to retail partners - (OT&C accountability at 95%)
• Review & communicate feasibility & timing for all buy requests
• Informs retail partners of use of excess inventory in Semi Annual Sales and Clearance buys; assist with component run-outs to reduce inventory liability
• Partners with Retail to develop new launch and medium range receipt plan

• Understand and supports business as well as process changes related to Speed
• Finds opportunities to reduce lead times and gain agility within the supply chain

• Complete buys using SAP MRP ensuring all master data is accurate and timely
• Lead to component inventory targets
• Handles detailed Bill of Material (BOM) accuracy including waste factors and usage
• Works closely with Inventory Control during Book to Book to identify/resolve BOM issues
• Provides Inventory Control with support needed to resolve PI/B2B issues
• Involved in quarterly review of Excess & Obsolete reconciliation and provides explanations/reasons for excess inventory with partnership with retail partners
• Participates in end of season inventory management planning; ad hoc cycle counts and run outs to reduce liability
• Responsible for analyzing data, reviewing reports and resolving issues to maintain a clean Book of Business with focus on inventory turns

• Creation and execution of Individual Development Plan (IDP) / Personal Performance Objectives (PPO’s) / Quarterly Connects / Performance Review in accordance with the performance management life cycle process
• Identify continuous learning opportunities for own development (ie. Learning Manager, attend other…