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Overview of the Job: Optimize consumer demand & supply to serve consumer and drive profitable growth and inventory productivity for NDDC.
Build seasonal product investment plan & strategies for retail concepts that tie to the financial targets & brand vision. Play a critical role in cross-function conversations to ensure the team adapt to retail speed & support Nike Strategy.
Reporting Line: Senior Supervisor, NDDC Kids Assortment Planning GC
Key Partnership:
- Digital Merch
- Consumer Planning
- MFP
Job Responsibility:
Pre-season:
- Build strategic framework of seasonal product investment plan;
- Lead digital buy strategy by reconciling topline financials, brand roadmap, consumer moments, membership plan with bottom up investment
- Align plan with input and collaboration from key stakeholders including Merchandising and Business Team
- Partner with Supply Planning team to secure capacity & plan inventory flow
In-season:
- Weekly analyze and recap marketplace performance
- Recommend key actions to cross function partners to optimize business
Post-season:
- Analyze seasonal topline financials and product performance including sell-through, color performance, and SKU productivity
- Provide insights and recommendations to key stakeholders for future season planning
- Recap performance of key retail moments to provide insights for future planning
Functional Skill Required (Hard skills):
- Buying, Planning, Assortment Planning experience with apparel / footwear in Digital preferred
- Comprehensive understanding of retail math
- Experience in developing an understanding of consumers, competitors, and retail trends
- Ability to interpret financial sales data to make decisions and recommendations that impact the business
- Advanced knowledge of MS office applications; proficiency in Excel
- Product Knowledge
- Fluent in Chinese & English
- Bachelor degree or above
Experience Required (Soft skills):
- Keep Open and Curious
- High profile x-functional communication
- Visionary and Strategic
- Strong team player and management on all aspects of the business
- Learning agility
OUR HIRING GAME PLAN
01 Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
03 Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
