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SENIOR ASSORTMENT PLANNER, E-COMMERCE
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
This Senior Planner will help optimize Nike’s business with key marketplace partners, serving as the planning lead for specific product segments. They will collaborate closely with Planning, Sales, Merchandising, Supply Chain, and external marketplace partners, joining an inclusive team focused on strong business results and consumer demand.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for a Senior Planner who brings strong retail acumen, planning expertise, curiosity, and a drive to turn data into action. This person will play a pivotal role in bringing Nike’s e-commerce partner marketplace vision to life through pre-season forecasting, in-season decision-making, and results analysis. They will build clear financial plans and work across functions to shape assortments grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer demand. They are a self-starter who can navigate ambiguity, think critically, and identify gaps between top-down financial targets and bottom-up product plans. Strong collaboration and influential communication are essential, both within Nike and with external marketplace partners. They can work confidently with large data sets, uncover what matters, and translate insights into compelling recommendations that move the business forward.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Merchandising, Economics, Marketing, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- 4+ years of experience in Planning, Buying, or Sales, with an emphasis on retail or wholesale financial planning and analysis.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and demonstrated ability to analyze large amounts of data, identify critical insights, and develop actionable recommendations.
- Experience in digital or e-commerce assortment planning, including forecasting, in-season performance analysis, and translating consumer demand into product and financial recommendations.
- Ability to travel up to 5% of the time.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
You’ll turn consumer demand, financial targets, and business performance into plans that guide assortment, inventory, and marketplace decisions. Working across teams and with external partners, you’ll connect the data, surface risks and opportunities, and translate insights into action throughout the season.
- Create financial and assortment plans that support business health and financial targets.
- Develop pre-season forecasts and buy recommendations, connecting top-down targets with bottom-up product and inventory plans.
- Build franchise and classification plans that inform buy and supply decisions.
- Monitor weekly, monthly, and seasonal sales, inventory, sell-through, profitability, and key digital demand signals.
- Analyze in-season performance, manage product forecasts, and recommend actions based on emerging risks and opportunities.
- Partner with Sales, Merchandising, and Supply Chain to align financial plans, seasonal assortments, launches, and inventory decisions.
- Build productive relationships with internal teams and external marketplace partners, using clear communication and data-driven insights to align decisions with broader business strategy.
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.