Senior Planner, Global

Nike • Beaverton, OR

85d

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Assortment Planner for Running to establish clear end-to-end bottom-up merchandise plans. This role will partner with Merchandising and MFP to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer-centric offerings. Responsibilities include creating pre-season style level plans that support Nike's goals and managing in-season optimization through a robust rolling forecast process and collaborative monthly offense with Enterprise Business Planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain and Logistics or related field
• Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
• Leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season
• Demonstrated experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning
• Strong ability to influence and ability to design compelling communication grounded in data
• Ability to think critically and understand the potential of a style in the marketplace as well as quantify any gaps to financial plans from a bottoms up perspective
• Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes
• Current understanding of consumer and marketplace trend of Running
• 3-5 years directly relevant work experience at minimum

Responsibilities

• Develop seasonal plans and monthly forecasts inclusive of sales, margin and inventory at the style level (leveraging analytics)
• Develop strategies to meet Sport financial goals and own open to buy bottom's up forecasts to inform manufacturing decisions through to in season optimization
• Partner with key stakeholders across Geo and Global to optimize business health throughout the entirety of the product life cycle inclusive of responsive offering
• Recap and analyze the business against forecast and forecast sales and inventories on a monthly basis
• Product forecasting and in season optimization by analyzing data, & providing actionable insights
• Report on forecast variance weekly with action plans and risks & opportunities
• Support monthly and seasonal inventory and supply planning activities

Benefits

• Accommodations for interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Apparel Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree