The APLA Supply & Inventory Management team optimizes our Supply-Demand match while ensuring key inventory targets are met. We interact with various stakeholders in APLA and Nike’s Global Supply & Inventory Management teams. Our team has governance over Finished Goods purchasing and recovery action plans to solve for buy and late delivery issues.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a strong candidate to join the APLA Supply and Inventory Management (S&IM) team as a Lead,  with a high degree of ownership and autonomy, to drive supply and inventory decisions, actions, and information sharing for key segments of the APLA Sport business, as well a develop cross team and geo analytical and automation capabilities to optimize supply and inventory management.

This role will own and manage supply and inventory plans for a Sport(s) across multiple seasons, ensuring all products are planned, evaluating risks and opportunities, escalating issues, and communicating relevant information to S&IM and Sport teams. This role will collaborate and influence cross functional business partners through proactive planning and analysis of key metrics in the name of optimal supply, productive inventory, and strong business results.

In addition, this person will spend time to identify, scope, suggest new opportunities, and execute high-impact analytical projects. This person will be hands on developing analytical and automation capabilities to optimize planning workflows and recommend both supply and marketplace actions to maximize revenue and margin while maintaining healthy inventory levels. APLA is a place for fast paced innovation that can help Nike test and learn quickly, before scaling solutions to other geos with the help of global analytics and technology partners.

The candidate needs to have proven track record of strategic thinking, resolving complex business issues as well as the ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and provide recommendations to a wide and diverse audience. Candidates will be advanced in analytical tools, coding, specifically with complex modeling/analysis and storytelling with data.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you will be accountable for the planning performance and inventory health of an assigned Sport segment, collaborating with internal and cross functional teams. You will lead regular supply and inventory reviews, including issue escalation and storytelling to leadership and stakeholder teams. You will conduct analysis to proactively identify challenges, provide recommendations, manage communication, and execute a wide variety of supply and inventory shaping activities. You will drive multi-season KPI reviews across key franchise or classifications to drive inventory health on our most critical products; influencing marketplace decisions and future inventory investments.

A typical day/week revolves around proactively driving actions to keep a healthy inventory position in the assigned business segment. You will leverage multiple reports and dashboards to review key metrics, escalating any issues that will cause unfulfilled demand and/or a delay to the expected timelines and lead recommendations/decisions that maintain a healthy Weeks of Supply for your Sport Segment. You will report and communicate to territory teams and consumer planning teams delivery expectations, risks and opportunities.  You will support and enhance critical initiatives that are relevant to our GEO and Territories.

In addition, you will be accountable for driving process efficiency and revenue optimization by developing and evangelizing analytics, AI and automation that have an impact to our day-to-day business. You will partner with analytics and technology teams to develop rapid prototypes in APLA keeping in mind how the solutions may scale across territories and other geos.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will report to the Supply & Inventory Management Director, working closely with S&IM Territory Managers and S&IM analysts to resolve issues. You will serve as the S&IM key partner for the Sport Planning leadership team, including cross-functional Sports teams, Assortment Planners, Merchandising, and Global Supply Planning. This in an individual contributor role.

WHAT YOU BRING

• We are looking for a leader that is process-oriented, results driven, and able to strategize and innovate to create a roadmap for the future. Key to success in this role will be the ability to be a flexible thinker and outstanding communicator who is comfortable working cross-functionally to drive change and influence leaders while also developing rigorous processes and well-communicated deliverables.
• Master's degree in Engineering or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Strong quantitative and analytics background, with experience in data engineering, statistical modeling, AI, optimization and visualization
• Strong ability to solve complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions
• Strong collaboration skills with a demonstrated ability of working well within a team
• Demonstrated ability to work well with internal teammates and cross functional partners

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.