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Lead Merchandise Financial Planner, Global
Beaverton, Oregon
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
You will work both within the Nike DSM function and across the broader cross-functional organization including partnering closely with Merch Planning, S&IP, EBP, Merchandising, Finance, GMs, and others to deliver top-down financial business targets both pre-season and in-season. You will also work across Fields of Play (FOP) to drive trade-off actions to drive consumer demand, margin and optimize overall consumer and FOP inventory health.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for a Lead Merchandise Financial Planner (MFP) to join our Team! As a Lead Merchandise Financial Planner, you will play a meaningful role in defining, crafting and setting consumer demand. You will be responsible for defining and leading multi-season revenue, receipt and inventory plans for the Global and FOP teams to serve consumer demand while adjusting and aligning to the consumer architecture based on targets and actuals.
You can build hypothesis & data driven analysis, translating insights into action through problem solving and critical thinking skills. You possess a deep understanding of consumer, marketplace, product and inventory planning with actions that are grounded in qualitative research, data and insights to support your view. You are a great collaborator who proactively builds positive relationships across the organization with both upstream and downstream functions. Using your strong financial and commercial acuity, you show good judgment in making decisions and problem solving.
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
Commercial and entrepreneurial approach
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
You’ll be working with the Consumer and broader Merchandise Financial Planning team to define and lead multi-season Merchandise Financial Plans for the global, consumer, FOP, and marketplace. You will set long range financial plans based on consumer demand and fields of play strategies as well as reconcile assortment plans with merchandise financial plans to align to consumer architecture. Your top-down financial targets will inform franchise/style plans, financial forecasts and end-to-end inventory forecasts, including liquidation plans both within and across Geos and FOPs. You’ll work across Consumer and FOPs with Merch Planning to reconcile forecasts and communicate results & impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Define and lead multi-season Merchandise Financial Plan for Consumer and FOP
Adjust and align Merchandise Financial Plan to consumer architecture based on targets and actuals
Determine (Perform) Global and Geo, Pre-Season top-down financial business targets (MFP - Consumer Demand, Revenue, Margin and Inventory) for Geo, Gender, Channel to inform Franchise/Style plans, Financial Forecasts and E2E Inventory Forecasts
Set and run E2E inventory liquidation plans within and across Channel
Define location (geo, FOP) consumer demand, revenue, receipt and inventory plans
Determine cross-FOP trade-off actions to drive consumer demand, Nike and partner margin and optimize overall marketplace inventory health
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. 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.
