Sr. Supply & Inventory Planner – Global Football (Soccer)

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

The Global Sports Apparel (GSA) Supply & Inventory Planning Team is a centralized function that manages end-to-end supply & inventory decisions for Global Football (Soccer) across our Global marketplace. This happens in close partnership with our Geography teams, where collectively we evaluate marketplace insights, Launch & delivery needs, inventory goals, consumer demand signals and Product merchandising needs to help shape and execute a supply plan. This team advocates on behalf of the entire Nike Supply Chain and is involved in many decisions that impact the success of Global Football. Nike’s GSA team manages the TEAMSPORTS and the Licensed portfolio for Football, which includes our expanding grassroots focus and continued emphasis on major events such as World Cup, Copa/Euro championships as well as our professional Licensed Clubs. The scope of this role is Apparel only. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR This role will support and participate in planning execution, serving as the GSA’s point of contact for supply & inventory planning needs for TEAM and Licensed Football (Soccer). This candidate will ensure products are planned in close coordination with key stakeholders, where you will obsess and evaluate risks and opportunities, escalate challenges and tradeoffs, and communicate all relevant updates across forums to drive positive business results. As a centralized function, you will partner with a wide variety of Global & Geo cross-functional partners to execute supply & inventory decisions for all of Global Football. This candidate will evaluate on-time delivery for both Promo & Retail, supply & demand signals across Nike’s consumer code, make business tradeoff decisions and will need to understand the balance of maximizing revenue, inventory and margin. The ideal candidate will bring a proactive and action-oriented approach towards solving problems, bring stakeholders together, embrace change and thrive in a complex and fast-moving environment. This individual will work in an ambiguous environment and may be asked to help evolve & refine our current operating model. This candidate should have an affinity for storytelling and should have strong influencing and collaboration skills. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON A typical day/week includes multi-season and iterative planning processes to ensure Nike’s Global Football assortment is planned & purchased on the appropriate timelines. This plan will work in conjunction with each Geography’s marketplace supply strategy and will help support varied supply & inventory KPIs across the globe. You will be responsible for executing and managing supply commitments through the creation of purchase orders (POs) for the procurement of Nike’s finished goods and will partner with manufacturing on buy exceptions. You will maintain changes to POs, including updates to delivery, price and ultimate destination and will be expected to communicate those changes and impacts across the Organization. You will analyze how to proactively identify challenges, craft a story around those challenges and ultimately drive clarity for key stakeholders using key business metrics. You will be asked to be the subject matter expert (SME) on projects and support key initiatives that impact our day-to-day business. WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH In this role, you will be part of the Global Football team which sits under the larger GSA organization (which includes other sports). You will report into the Global Football Director. You will partner frequently with our Geography Planning & Supply Chain teams, Global Supply Planning, Global Demand Planning, Delivery Excellence and Manufacturing teams, Global Sourcing, Global Materials Planning, Product and Merchandising and Sports Marketing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business / supply chain or related field
• Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
• Minimum of 3 years of supply & inventory planning, demand planning or other supply chain experience required
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including meeting facilitation, presentations and storytelling
• Ability to pivot from numbers into action-oriented insights, strong analytical skills and finding relevant information within large data sets and create executive story
• Ability to build strong working relationships with cross functional and consumer team partners, strong influencing skills including experience collaborating with virtual teams
• Detail oriented and self-motivated, with strong organizational skills (multi-tasking)
• High level of proficiency with MS Office, including Microsoft Word and Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, & macros

Nice To Haves

• Experience with SAP/APO, Cognos or other advanced planning systems is preferred
• Experience in a licensed, wholesale apparel, footwear, or equipment organization is preferred

Responsibilities

• Executing and managing supply commitments through the creation of purchase orders (POs) for the procurement of Nike’s finished goods and will partner with manufacturing on buy exceptions.
• Maintaining changes to POs, including updates to delivery, price and ultimate destination and will be expected to communicate those changes and impacts across the Organization.
• Analyzing how to proactively identify challenges, craft a story around those challenges and ultimately drive clarity for key stakeholders using key business metrics.
• Being the subject matter expert (SME) on projects and support key initiatives that impact our day-to-day business.

What This Job Offers

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