Senior Assortment Planner, Global Jordan

Nike • Beaverton, OR

5d

About The Position

We are looking for a Global Jordan Senior 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. This role will partner with Merchandising and Business Planning to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer-centric offerings. The Senior planner will be an enterprise thinker and have the ability to influence and gain leadership alignment on current state and future plans to meet all objectives for our Sport business. Every day, our assortment planners step up to address difficult issues, operate effectively when the way forward isn't clear, develop innovative ideas and win with consumers by understanding their business to drive success.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience
• Demonstrated experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning
• Strong Retail Planning Acumen
• Current understanding of consumer and marketplace trends
• The ability to leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season
• Strong Excel skills are essential
• Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes
• Strong ability to influence and ability to design compelling communication grounded in data for key leadership stakeholders
• Ability to work across a matrixed environment

Responsibilities

• Develop seasonal plans and monthly forecasts inclusive of sales, margin and inventory at the style level (leveraging analytics)
• Develop strategies to meet Jordan financial goals
• Build bottom-up forecasts to inform pre-season decisions
• Weekly sales analysis to identify risk and opportunities
• Collaborate with your Geo and Global cross functional teams to manage performance
• Provide post-season assortment insights and recommendations to key stakeholders
• Provide the necessary recaps and analysis on the state of the business across the seasonal horizon

What This Job Offers

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