Become part of the Converse Team
Converse is a place to explore potential, break barriers 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 Converse, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.
North America Direct Planner
NORTH AMERICA – DIRECT PLANNING
ABOUT CONVERSE
Are you interested in working for the most iconic and well-loved sneaker brand in the world? Born in sports and made for the street, Converse is a place to explore your potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. We seek people who can lead, grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. Converse seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing their authentic self, skills, and passion to serve the daring spirit of youth.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
The Converse Direct Planning team unleashes the power of information and data to forecast, predict, and obsess our consumer demand, profitability, and inventory. These insights drive decisions and plans that help to ensure our consumer has access to the products they want, when they want them, and how they want to get them.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for a Planner to join the Converse North America Direct Planning team.
This individual will support driving sales, profitability, and inventory through the product launched on converse.com and in our Converse branded stores. In this role, you will drive growth to achieve company financial plans while delivering the brand and geography priorities & vision. You will collaborate with North America partners to develop and execute cohesive strategies and process to optimize the Digital and Stores businesses. Using data-driven insights, you will initiate and proactively partner with teams to manage the product life cycle, inventory, and pricing for the Direct business and build recommendations for the future.
The role requires someone who is curious can be agile, roll-up their sleeves, and is excited by managing the fast-paced direct-to-consumer business. You have a passion for creating impact and can identify trends and synthesize demand signals to develop key highlights and action plans. You ask questions, are continually learning, and are finding opportunities to share knowledge with others.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
You will work alongside business partners to manage the Merchandise Financial Plan to drive Converse Direct towards growth, profitability, and healthy inventory levels. To do this, you will:
- Activate the Open-to-Buy (OTB) plans that maximize sales, margin and inventory to support financial targets
- Recommend and align with team members on inventory and pricing actions
- Build promotional forecasts and create a toolkit through analysis and partnership with Direct team members
- Communicate and manage operational execution of promotional strategy
- Create and manage the daily forecasts by Line of Business and Store tied to the financial plan and provide demand order flow outlook to the Operations teams
- Analyze and summarize weekly business to actively drive cross-functional collaboration and deliver business results
- Create and recommend store, district, and segment level insights to adjust future business
- Effectively communicate merchandise strategies, insights, and action plans to peers and leadership
- Actively collaborate with team members to identify business opportunities and efficiencies
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will report to the Direct Planning Manager. This role is heavily collaborative, working with many cross-functional teams such as finance, buying, allocation, site, analytics, store operations, marketing, and consumer planning.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education, experience, and training
- 2+ years in merchandise planning, demand planning or business planning.
- An understanding of key business metrics with experience in Direct-to-Consumer a plus
- Strong retail math, analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills utilizing Excel
- Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects at once
- Self-starter with the skills to manage through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate and influence across diverse audiences
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NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
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.
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.
