Lead, Business Planner

Nike•Beaverton, OR

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Elevating Nike’s partnership with Department Store wholesale partners will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just a job. You'll be an ambassador of the Nike brand - everything we stand for: passion for sport, an instinct to innovate, and relentless commitment to serving athletes. Nike’s Planning team partners with diverse teams across the company — and around the world — to bring our mission of elevating human potential to life. Nike Planning drives profitable, sustainable growth and inventory productivity for Nike and our partners. As a team, we are building a smarter, more connected, and automated value chain. We’re looking for a Lead Business Planner on our Department Stores Integrated Portfolio Team (IPT). In this position, you'll play a meaningful role in serving athletes by working with Department Store accounts to ensure Nike products are accessible at the right time, place, and supply levels. You will achieve this by engaging with various internal & external partners to understand opportunities, influence outcomes, and resolve differences while delivering against revenue & inventory targets. You move at the pace of the consumer and are energized by the opportunities surrounding the connection of physical and digital commerce. You have an “anything’s possible” attitude and can translate insights into action by applying critical thinking and problem-solving skills. You effectively communicate complex data to a variety of audiences. You possess a deep understanding of the marketplace, product, data-supported inventory planning, and can recognize new growth opportunities. You are a great collaborator who proactively builds positive relationships spanning various functions and levels of leadership. Using your strong financial and commercial acuity, you show good judgment in making decisions and recommendations. You have experience closing the gap between strategy and execution and you are passionate about creating the future of integrated wholesale/retail planning through systems and tools.

Requirements

5+ years' experience in merchandise planning, business planning, merchandising, sales, or retail buying
Curious and self-motivated, able to analyze large amounts of data and articulate the message behind it
Outstanding written/verbal communication, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail
Ability to collate and understand relevant market data that integrates and informs the plan; assessing risk and solving problems to deliver business results
Strong command of Retail metrics including Retail Sales, ST%, WOS, Inventories (marketplace + DC), Revenue and Margin with the ability to manipulate data for efficient outcome
In-depth knowledge of consumers, competitors, and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred.
Retail math fluency; ability to interpret financial sales data to make business decisions and recommendations
Experience with merchandise and forecasting management systems.
Advanced capabilities in Excel
Bachelor’s degree Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.

Nice To Haves

knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as a merchandise financial planning lead to Nike’s Department Store team, working cross-functionally to forecast consumer demand, plan optimal supply, and meet financial expectations.
Set tops-down plans for key business dimensions across both Gross-to-Net and Stock & Sales that balance consumer demand, partner strategies, and align with the Sport architecture.
Inform franchise/style planning, financial forecasts, and end-to-end inventory forecasts.
Reconcile forecasts, recap business results, and clearly depict decision impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams.
Lead and conduct internal/external seasonal financial account meetings to align with accounts open to buys and provide overall context to seasonal plans.
In response to demand signals, elevate in-season risks/help needed to achieve performance targets, including product chase, order cancels and applying other inventory productivity levers.
Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share standard methodologies, and drive system implementation.