Lead Planner, Running Footwear, NA

Nike • Beaverton, OR

2d

About The Position

We are looking for a Lead Assortment Planner to establish clear end to end bottom-up merchandise plans to ensure consumer demand is met and a healthy pull market is maintained. The success of our team relies on collaborative and detail-oriented assortment planners who manage style-color and franchise plans to optimize sales, margin and profitable sustainable growth across the marketplace. Our planners step up to address difficult issues, operate effectively when the way forward isn't clear, develop innovative ideas and they win with consumers by understanding their business to drive success. They are self-starters who proactively look to drive the business forward. If this is you, you'll develop and own a robust assortment plan that includes product depth, flow and style/color efficiency. Whilst ensuring marketplace and plan insights are utilized to curate the optimal product line. In a typical day/week you will building bottom-up forecasts to inform pre-season decisions, monthly sales analysis to identify risk and opportunity, collaboration with your marketplace team and Running partners to manage performance and providing post-season assortment insights and recommendations to key stakeholders. You will drive the Mens Running Footwear portfolio, leading the way for Running. You will report to the Running FW Senior Manager and will be working closely with your Womens FW counterpart to ensure alignment in strategy, storylines, and plans. You will work side by side with your Sport Merchant partner to collectively own and drive the Mens Running FW business across demand plans, Code moments, and franchise management. You will also work with marketplace, engaging with retailer's planning teams in monthly and seasonal conversations. You'll also stay connected to other planners and succeed through your ability to self-start, collaborate and drive action and results. We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form .

Requirements

• 5 + years of demand planning experience is highly desirable
• Ability to work across a matrixed environment while driving alignment
• Self-Starter
• Strong Excel skills are essential
• Comprehensive understanding of retail math required
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management experience
• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field.
• Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

What This Job Offers

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