SENIOR ASSORTMENT PLANNER- SOCCER APPAREL & ACCESSORIES, NORTH AMERICA

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

The NIKE, Inc. Supply Chain team is the engine that propels product around the world. Supply Chain experts ensure that every year, almost a billion units of footwear, apparel and equipment arrive at the right place, at the right time. To ensure this complex job goes off without a hitch, Supply Chain teams work with a network of more than 50 distribution centers, thousands of accounts, and more than 100,000 retail stores worldwide — making the impossible happen every single day.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:

You will partner cross functionally with Merchandising, Sport Planning, Business Planning, Sales, Concept Planners and Marketing/ Brand teams.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

We are looking for a Senior Assortment Planner to 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.  You will be tasked with creating 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.  A strong candidate will

• 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 of consumer and marketplace trend
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 3-5 years directly relevant work experience Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 1 yr; Masters + 0-3 yrs

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON:

Working on this team will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just another job. You'll be an ambassador of the Nike brand - everything we stand for: drive, determination, the unyielding commitment to excellence.  These all will be a part of your everyday experience. In this role you'll establish clear assortment plans that tell a story for the season and helps merchandising create a line grounded in profitability and consumer centric offering. This will include collaborating with merchandising and sales to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial plans and product opportunities.

You will:

• Present financial plans, forecasts and strategies in key meetings. You'll 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. You'll collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge. In addition, you'll 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

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.