Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
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.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a Lead Assortment Planner to establish clear end to end bottom-up merchandise plans to ensure consumer demand is met and a healthy pull market is maintained.The success of our team relies on collaborative and detail-oriented assortment planners who manage style-color and franchise plans to optimize sales, margin and profitable sustainable growth across the marketplace.Our planners step up to address difficult issues, operate effectively when the way forward isn't clear, develop innovative ideas and they win with consumers by understanding their business to drive success. They are self-starters who proactively look to drive the business forward.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
If this is you, you'll develop and own a robust assortment plan that includes product depth, flow and style/color efficiency. Whilst ensuring marketplace and plan insights are utilized to curate the optimal product line.In a typical day/week you will building bottom-up forecasts to inform pre-season decisions, monthly sales analysis to identify risk and opportunity, collaboration with your marketplace team and Running partners to manage performance and providing post-season assortment insights and recommendations to key stakeholders. You will drive the Mens Running Footwear portfolio, leading the way for Running.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will report to the Running FW Senior Manager and will be working closely with your Womens FW counterpart to ensure alignment in strategy, storylines, and plans.You will work side by side with your Sport Merchant partner to collectively own and drive the Mens Running FW business across demand plans, Code moments, and franchise management.You will also work with marketplace, engaging with retailer's planning teams in monthly and seasonal conversations. You'll also stay connected to other planners and succeed through your ability to self-start, collaborate and drive action and results.
WHAT YOU BRING
- 5 + years of demand planning experience is highly desirable
- Ability to work across a matrixed environment while driving alignment
- Self-Starter
- Strong Excel skills are essential
- Comprehensive understanding of retail math required
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
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.
