Serving the needs of all families with young children, Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work, constant learning, genuine people, and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carter's.

Serving the needs of all families with young children, Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work, constant learning, genuine people, and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carter's.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT:

The Senior Manager, Planning Systems role is foundational to our Center of Excellence team and reporting to the Project Manager. The right candidate will be trained to assume full ownership of the Carters Anaplan model and to lead the end-to-end implementation of new models. The first objective would be to learn the current Anaplan model, as assigned and prove ability to support the users in day-to-day operations. You’ll work with the CoE team to make enhancement recommendations and architect new models in the Anaplan roadmap. Experience in supply chain planning models is required.

Model Ownership and Support: (40%)

• Act as a model owner for Wholesale and Merchandising models
• Ability to deep dive and learn existing customer models and business process
• Trace model logic and troubleshoot solutions. Explain root cause analysis and provide solution training to end users
• Proven technical skills with the ability to translate and understand end-user needs
• Proven technical skills to learn, adopt and scale complex Anaplan models
• Responsible for designing, developing, testing and delivering Anaplan models based on the Anaplan way and the customer needs
• Ability to coordinate among the data integration, scheduling and migration teams
• Develop inbound and outbound data feeds to and from the Anaplan model
• Deploy the solution to end-users and provide overall support and training
  

Project Management: (30%)

• Ability to create achievable project plans, including business and technical resource requirement
• Tracking and provide visibility to project status to Anaplan leaders, IT partners and project stakeholders
• Skilled at multi-tasking between model management, day to day support, team management and project management
  

Team Management: (30%)

• Collaborate with project team to build Anaplan models in line with best practices and guidance
• Translate requirements and work with offshore resource to attain project deliverables on and/or enhancements time
• Onboard and train offshore resources on existing models
  

We’d Love to hear from you if:

Must have:

• Bachelor’s in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• Solution Architect certification is preferred, with a willingness to learn and develop expertise in Anaplan
• 3+ years of experience building complex multidimensional models in Anaplan
• 3+ years of relevant experience in supply chain or retail
• 3+ years of team management. Offshore experience is a plus.
• Excellent customer-facing and communication skills in both in-person and remote settings
  

Our Team Members:

• Lead Courageously: Have a strong sense of personal values that align with our Company values
• Collaborates Broadly: Build cooperation, trust, and thrive in a consensus driven environment
• Customer Focus: Proactively seek opportunities to leverage data and fact-based insights to serve customers and/or internal clients
• Drive Growth: Set aggressive goals and implement plans precisely
• Cultivates Innovation: Respectfully challenge the “we’ve always done it this way” mentality and explore new ways to achieve desired outcomes
  

Make a career at Carter’s:

Career Development: Success starts from within, and we have several paths from which you can choose to enhance your career evolution. From Carter’s University to Toastmasters to mentorship programs and more, we encourage you to utilize these tools to elevate your professional prowess.

Carters is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.