Sr Network Planning Specialist

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The Senior Specialist, Network Planning drives network execution performance and stability by ensuring effective decision-making, rapid issue resolution, and alignment across deployment, capacity, and order execution activities.

This role oversees network health end-to-end, identifies risks and systemic issues, and intervenes to guide or make decisions when trade-offs exceed defined thresholds, ensuring service, cost, and capacity objectives are maintained.

Operating across planning, logistics, and execution teams, the Senior Specialist connects strategy to execution, resolves cross-functional conflicts, and drives timely, data-informed actions under uncertainty to protect network performance.

• Owns daily network health and drive actions based on order, payload, service gaps, order diverts, throughput, and appointment availability insights.
• Translate system insights into immediate actions, driving resolution of service risks and minimizing escalations.
• Make real-time decisions on order execution, including order divert updates, system dispatch utilization and service recovery actions.
• Support COF recovery and seasonal customer programs through divert recommendations, hyper-care support and issue resolution.
• Review and prevent order cuts with inventory and freshness lens to identify gaps and systemic drivers of service loss. Lead to gap closures and coach teams towards stronger upstream decision making.
• Partner with and coach SKU Specialists to improve overall order quality using exception-based insights.
• Review and govern divert requests from SKU owners to ensure network feasibility and alignment to service objectives.
• Manage Min/Max health by reviewing DC‑owned actions, challenging setups and ensuring alignment with customer initiatives and capacity constraints.
• Provide adhoc support for CMIR and customer-driven planning activities.

• Owns short-term capacity planning decisions, including dispatch prioritization and trade-offs between service and throughput.
• Review throughput constraints within planning systems and communicate risks, gaps, and staffing implications through recurring reporting.
• Govern dispatch attainment by analyzing SKU dispatch utilization and driving opportunities to improve execution efficiency.
• Maintain and govern regional inventory policies in alignment with network strategy.
• Partner cross-functionally to identify and resolve distribution solve gaps.
• Identify AI opportunities, planning tool enhancements, and process improvements to increase network visibility and execution quality.
• Support Mode of Transportation (MOT) strategy adherence by identifying switch opportunities and monitoring compliance.
• Serve as a planning support partner for DC go-lives, network realignments and Network of the Future initiatives.
• Maintain and update…