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