Planner, NA

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

The NDDC Assortment Planner supports Nike Direct’s product assortment across North America by helping shape financial and inventory strategy. The role combines analytics, forecasting, pricing insights, and collaboration to help ensure products are available at the right time, place, and price while serving consumers and delivering business results.

The planner is part of Nike Direct’s Assortment Planning team and partners with Merchandising, Planning, Marketplace, Finance, Inventory Planning, and Business Unit teams. The position reports into the Planning organization and contributes to assortment, inventory, pricing, and forecasting decisions. The ideal candidate is analytical, organized, proactive, detail-oriented, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to turn complex data into clear recommendations. They should be able to build scalable processes, maintain data integrity, communicate effectively across organizational levels, and balance strategic thinking with operational execution.

Requirements

• 2–3 years of professional experience in retail planning, merchandising, inventory management, forecasting, or related disciplines.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Retail Management, or a related field; a suitable combination of education, experience, and training is also accepted.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including reporting, forecasting, and analytical modeling.
• Strong communication skills and a consumer-first mindset.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, connect insights across multiple data sources, and translate complexity into clear business recommendations.
• Ability to build scalable processes, maintain data integrity, collaborate across teams, and support business outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience presenting data-driven recommendations to business partners and leadership audiences.
• Experience working in a retail, consumer products, or marketplace environment.

Responsibilities

• Support product forecasting and pricing strategies by analyzing performance trends, managing reporting tools, and delivering actionable business insights.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance reporting solutions used across the planning team to improve decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and communicate weekly variance analyses, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions to key stakeholders.
• Partner with Merchandising, Marketplace, Finance, and Inventory Planning teams to align seasonal and in-season financial plans with product strategies.
• Lead weekly markdown execution across assigned portfolios, ensuring system accuracy and cross-functional alignment with pricing and inventory objectives.
• Monitor price positioning across the marketplace and product portfolio, identifying opportunities to optimize pricing in support of business strategy.
• Manage inventory health throughout the product lifecycle by supporting seasonal inventory planning, closeout strategies, aging inventory actions, and open-to-buy management initiatives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level