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Elevating Nike’s partnership with JD Sports / Finish Line will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just a job. You'll be an ambassador of the Nike brand - everything we stand for: passion for sport, an instinct to innovate, and relentless commitment to serving athletes.

Nike’s Demand and Supply Management (DSM) function partners with diverse teams across the company — and around the world — to bring our mission of elevating human potential to life. Nike DSM drives profitable, sustainable growth and inventory productivity for Nike and our partners. As a team, we are building a more connected, and automated value chain.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will work both within the Nike DSM function and across the broader cross-functional organization including partnering closely with both internal and external JD Sports/ Finish Line’s partners, Consumer MFP, MPO, Finance, and others to deliver top-down financial business targets both pre-season and in-season. Your focus is to understand and share trade-off actions that ultimately drive consumer demand, improve Nike and Partner margin, and optimize inventory health.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As the Merchandise Financial Planning Manager for JD Sports / Finish Line, you play a critical role in defining, shaping and meeting consumer demand. You are responsible for defining and leading multi-season sales, receipt, and inventory plans for JD Sports / Finish Line to serve consumer demand, while adjusting and aligning based on evolving targets. You can build hypotheses and data driven analysis, translate insights into action through problem-solving and critical thinking skills. You possess a deep understanding of the marketplace, product and inventory planning with actions grounded in qualitative research, data, and insights to support your view. You are a great collaborator who proactively builds positive relationships across the organization. Using your strong financial and commercial acuity, you show good judgment in making decisions and problem solving.

You Bring: 

  • Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 3 yrs; Masters + 4 yrs; Associates degree + 6 yrs; High School + 7 yrs

  • 5+ years’ experience in retail, planning and/or product management

  • Strong ability to influence & work constructively with others by communicating effectively. Listens actively and contributes to advance the conversation.

  • Outstanding written/verbal communication, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail

  • Ability to collate and understand relevant market data that integrates and informs the Merchandise Financial Plan; assessing risk and solving problems to deliver business results

  • Strong command of Retail metrics including Retail Sales, ST%, WOS, Inventories (marketplace + DC), Revenue and Margin with the ability to manipulate data for efficient outcome

  • In-depth knowledge of consumers, competitors, and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred.

  • Advanced capabilities in Excel

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you will serve as the merchandise financial planning Lead to Nike’s JD Sports / Finish Line team, working cross-functionally to forecast consumer demand, plan optimal supply, and meet financial expectations. You will set tops-down plans for key business dimensions across both Gross-to-Net and Stock & Sales that balance consumer demand, partner strategies, and align with the Consumer Architecture. Your plans will inform franchise/style plans, financial forecasts, and end-to-end inventory forecasts. You’ll reconcile forecasts, recap business results, and clearly depict decision impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams. You will also lead and conduct internal/external seasonal financial account meetings while providing overall context to seasonal plans.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.

Was dich erwartet

UNSER REKRUTIERUNGSPLAN

01 Bewerben

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02 Recruiter:in treffen oder an Beurteilung teilnehmen

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