WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will work both within the Nike Planning function and across the broader cross-functional organization, including partnering closely with GMs, Merchandising, Finance, Supply & Inventory Planning, and others, both Global and Geo. You will be responsible for delivering both a top-down merchandise financial plan that meets our financial and strategic objectives, as well as the bottoms-up assortment plan that optimizes consumer demand, margin and inventory health. You will also analyze and share consumer-led insights to shape future product strategies.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Ideal candidate will possess a comprehensive understanding of retail metrics and how they are used across functions to deliver profitable and sustainable growth for Nike, with a strong ability to interpret financial sales data to make decisions and recommendations that impact the business. 

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.

Strong communication skills are critical.  Candidate must be forward-thinking with growth mindset and desire to build the future of retail.  Digital and/or vertical retail experience is preferred. 

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training

• A minimum of 10 years directly relevant experience

• 7+ years experience in retail assortment planning, merch financial planning, or merchandising 

• Strong and demonstrated ability to influence & work constructively with others by communicating and teaming 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, Inventory, Revenue and Margin with the ability to manipulate data for efficient outcome

• Commercial and entrepreneurial approach

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You’ll be working to define and lead multi-season Merchandise Financial Plans for the NikeSKIMS global business, as well as building the bottoms-up assortment plan that optimizes consumer demand, margin and inventory health to drive sustainable growth. You will partner with the broader cross-functional team from Nike and Skims build and refine future consumer and product strategies that support growth through comprehensive assortment forecasts. 

You will set long range financial plans based on consumer demand and consumer strategies as well as marketplace strategy. You will define tops-down multi-season revenue, receipt and inventory plans and reconcile against bottoms up product level plans.  Your top-down financial targets will inform franchise/style plans, financial forecasts and end-to-end inventory forecasts. You’ll also work across key stakeholders to reconcile forecasts and communicate results & impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams.

This role will include presenting financial plans, forecasts and product strategies in key meetings. You will proactively report on the health of the business and facilitate sound business decisions and action plans, to leaders and cross-functional team members, on a weekly basis. You will collaborate with peers and key stakeholders to ensure consistency of information, create and share best practices, and develop systems knowledge. 

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.