Lead, Assortment Planning NA - Jordan FNL/JD Sports

Nike • Indianapolis, IN

13d

About The Position

Our Indianapolis-based Demand & Supply Management (DSM) team is looking for a Lead Assortment Planner focused on optimizing the Jordan Brand business with JD Sports/Finish Line. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in bringing Jordan Brand’s marketplace vision to life with specific focus on pre-season forecasting, reacting to in-season trends and results analysis. You will establish clear financial plans while partnering with cross functional teammates to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer demand. Strong collaboration is a key, working both internally with Jordan/Nike and externally with JD Sports/Finish Line. As a Lead Planner, you’ll bring curiosity, a self-starter mentality, influential communication skills, and a strong ability to operate in ambiguous situations. You’ll have phenomenal data storytelling abilities grounded in retail acumen, planning expertise and supported through elevated excel capabilities. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON On any given day you might be developing style-level plans to inform financial plans that will fuel assortments and influence buy and supply decisions while partnering with key stakeholders. You’ll also continuously monitor performance indicators keeping a pulse on the business: analyzing sales results, managing key product forecasts, in season recommendations and sharing actionable insights on risks and opportunities. You will create plans that optimize business health while achieving financial targets. You’ll use strong communication skills with internal/external partners to elicit information, cultivate productive dialogue, verbalize ideas, and align financial plans with an overarching strategy. You’ll enable success by collaborating with multiple cross functional internal teammates and external planning counterparts. WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH You’ll be the planning point person for Jordan product line in the Indianapolis office and collaborate regularly with a variety of groups and individuals, including (but not limited to): sales, merchandising, planning, marketplace teams, brand, as well as various external contributors and leaders. You’ll participate in a team structure that facilitates individual and team performance, supporting and encouraging an open and inclusive environment that embraces diversity, encourages accountability, and drives toward results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Merchandising, Economics, Marketing, or related field
• 4+ years experience in Planning/Buying/Sales with emphasis on retail/wholesale financial planning and analysis
• Proven ability to leverage large amounts of data, identify critical information, analyze, and potentially create new ways of working to develop a recommendation.
• Strong ability to influence through compelling communication.
• Able to think critically and understand the potential of a product in the marketplace while identifying gaps to tops-down and bottoms-up financial plan.
• Advanced Excel skills
• Travel up to 15% of the time

Responsibilities

• developing style-level plans to inform financial plans that will fuel assortments and influence buy and supply decisions while partnering with key stakeholders
• continuously monitor performance indicators keeping a pulse on the business: analyzing sales results, managing key product forecasts, in season recommendations and sharing actionable insights on risks and opportunities
• create plans that optimize business health while achieving financial targets
• use strong communication skills with internal/external partners to elicit information, cultivate productive dialogue, verbalize ideas, and align financial plans with an overarching strategy
• enable success by collaborating with multiple cross functional internal teammates and external planning counterparts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees