Senior Planner, NA

Nike•Beaverton, OR

23h

About The Position

NIKE, Inc. is seeking a Senior Assortment Planner for its Soccer Apparel & Accessories division in North America. This role is crucial in establishing clear, end-to-end assortment plans that are grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer-centric offerings. The Senior Assortment Planner will partner with Merchandising, Sales, and Business Planning teams to create a line that meets Nike's goals. Responsibilities include creating pre-season style color plans, managing in-season optimization, and developing a robust, seasonal rolling forecast process in collaboration with account planning teams. The ideal candidate will leverage statistical forecasting and data science to develop plans and drive better decisions, demonstrate experience in assortment planning, understand financial, product, and inventory planning, and possess strong influencing and communication skills grounded in data. Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities are essential to understand market potential, quantify financial gaps, and optimize trade-offs. A Bachelor's degree with 3-5 years of directly relevant work experience is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 3-5 years directly relevant work experience.
Experience in assortment planning.
Understanding of financial, product and inventory planning.
Ability to influence others and craft compelling communication grounded in data.
Critical thinking skills to understand the potential of a style in the marketplace and quantify financial gaps.
Problem-solving skills to develop accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes.
Understanding of consumer and marketplace trends.

Nice To Haves

PhD or Law + 1 yr experience
Masters + 0-3 yrs experience

Responsibilities

Establish clear end to end bottom’s up assortment plans partnering with Merchandising, Sales and Business Planning to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer centric offerings.
Create pre-season style color plans that support the goals of Nike by managing from in- season optimization to a robust, seasonal rolling forecast process in collaboration with account planning teams.
Leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season.
Demonstrate experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning.
Influence others and craft compelling communication grounded in data.
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.
Display problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes.
Understand consumer and marketplace trends.
Present financial plans, forecasts and strategies in key meetings.
Proactively report on the health of the business, facilitate smart business decisions, communicate financial results, and create action plans to managers and cross-functional team members on a regular basis.
Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge.
Participate in a team structure that facilitates and maximizes individual and team performance, supporting and fostering an open and inclusive environment that embraces diversity, encourages accountability, and drives results.
Develop seasonal plans and monthly forecasts inclusive of sales, margin and inventory at the style color level leveraging analytics, develop strategies to meet 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 in-season sales and inventories on a monthly basis.
Product forecasting and in season optimization by analyzing data, & providing actionable insights.
Report on forecast variance across key planning gates and deliver action plans as well as risks & opportunities.
Support monthly and seasonal inventory planning and management activities.
In partnership with account teams actively manage product; close-out process and aging inventory to maximize consumer demand and marketplace objectives.