VP, Supply Chain Planning & Analytics
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
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ROLE PURPOSE
The Vice President of Supply Chain Planning & Analytics builds and scales a bestinclass data analytics and AI capability that improves performance across the endtoend supply chainservice inventory speed reliability and costtoserve.
This role does not own demand planning production planning or merchandise buying decisions. Instead it serves as the Supply Chain decisionintelligence and orchestration engine enabling faster and better decisions by building analytics products reporting tools and digital models (including a digital supply chain twin) that functional teams use to run and improve the business.
The role also owns select planningadjacent analytics capabilities that directly connect Supply Chain Planning & Analytics to the business ensuring strong understanding of how inventory capacity and flow decisions impact service and cost outcomes. The role is accountable for global Supply Chain reporting and analytics and partners closely with Distribution & Logistics leaders to drive measurable operational improvement.
About the Job
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Supply Chain Decision Intelligence & Orchestration
- Build the decisionintelligence layer across supply chain planning and execution.
- Enable crossfunctional orchestration without owning execution.
- Translate complexity into clear service cost speed and risk tradeoffs.
- Provide endtoend visibility to inventory flow from global origin through distribution centers to stores and customers.
Inventory Flow Planning & Visibility
- Own analytics and projections for inventory flow from global sourcing and origin through distribution centers to stores and customers.
- Provide forwardlooking visibility to distribution center capacity inventory velocity and constraints.
- Partner with Transportation and Logistics teams to provide shipment volume forecasts and shipping estimates that support network and capacity decisions.
- Serve as a key connective tissue between Supply Chain Planning & Analytics and the broader business ensuring analytics roadmaps are grounded in real operational and commercial needs.
S&OP / IBP Enablement
- Provide analytics scenarios and decision support for S&OP / IBP in partnership with Merchandise Planning and Inventory Management.
- Enable factbased forwardlooking decision making without owning plans.
- Support crossfunctional alignment by linking inventory flow capacity and service scenarios into executive decision forums.
Digital Supply Chain Twin & Scenario Modeling
- Lead supply chain use cases for a digital supply chain twin.
- Enable scenario planning stress testing and disruption modeling.
- Extend scenario modeling beyond nearterm tradeoffs to longerterm network capacity speed and cost optimization opportunities.
Network Modeling & Design
- Develop and maintain network models to evaluate distribution footprint capacity strategy service levels and costtoserve over multiyear horizons.
- Support decisions on distribution center location flow paths capacity investments and network resiliency.
- Partner with Distribution & Logistics and Finance to evaluate strategic tradeoffs using datadriven scenarios.
Distribution & Logistics Analytics
- Own analytics and reporting for global Distribution & Logistics.
- Partner with Distribution & Logistics leaders to improve service productivity and costtoserve.
- Enable datadriven inventory positioning across distribution centers including movement of product between DCs based on capacity demand fulfillment and service objectives without owning buy or merchandise decisions.
Enterprise Supply Chain Reporting
- Own endtoend supply chain reporting and insights.
- Build selfserve and AIpowered reporting capabilities.
AI Enablement & Pilot Deployment
- Lead supply chain AI pilots from use case definition through scale.
- Establish a repeatable pilottoscale operating model.
- Ensure pilots deliver measurable operational impact.
Operating Model & Partnerships
- Partner closely with Technology Enterprise Data and Analytics teams.
- Own supply chain use cases adoption and value realization.
- Influence enterprise data architecture and tooling to ensure supply chain data platforms support current and future planning automation and decisionintelligence needs.
- Codevelop the supply chain analytics and technology roadmap with IT to meet both nearterm operational needs and longerterm digital transformation goals.
Team & Global Talent Hubs
- Build and lead a highperforming global analytics team.
- Leverage talent hubs in Bangalore Warsaw and Mexico.
About You
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 15 years of experience in supply chain analytics planning enablement or transformation.
- Proven track record delivering analyticsdriven operational improvement.
- Experience leading global teams and partnering with technology organizations.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms data lakes and analytics architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technology organizations and shape data and analytics priorities without direct ownership.
- Working knowledge of AI / ML concepts and their application to supply chain automation forecasting optimization and decision support.
- Deep understanding of supply chain planning concepts and the ability to translate planning needs into scalable analytics and technology solutions.
LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES:
- Orchestrator and enabler.
- Builder of durable capabilities.
- Outcomedriven and pragmatic.
- Comfortable operating at the intersection of business planning analytics and technology.
This is a hybrid position based in our San Francisco CA headquarters. You will be expected in office 3 days per week typically Tuesday-Thursday. Note time in office can vary depending on business needs.
The expected starting salary range for this role is $251600-$369100 per year.We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on the location of the role. The amount a particular employee will earn within the salary range will be based on factors such as relevant education qualifications performance and business needs.
Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) offers a total rewards package that includes base pay incentive plans401(k) matchingpaid leavehealth insurance product discounts and more designed to help you and your family stay healthy meet your financial goals and balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits and incentive compensation vary depending upon the specifics of the role; details relating to a specific role will be made available upon request. Read more about our benefitshere.
LS&Co. is an affirmative action and equal employment opportunity welcome and value people from diverse cultures backgrounds and experiences to make LS&Co. a collective success.
EOE M/F/Disability/Vets
LOCATION
San Francisco CA USAFULL TIME/PART TIME
Full timeFILL DATE
This position is expected to be filled by 06/17/2026.Current LS&Co Employees apply via your Workday account.
Required Experience:
Exec
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