Lead Planner, Sport Specialty, NA

Lead Planner, Sport Specialty, NA 

Elevating Nike’s partnership with marketplace partners will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just a job. You'll be an ambassador of the Nike brand - everything we stand for: passion for sport, an instinct to innovate, and relentless commitment to serving athletes. 

Nike’s Sales Planning function partners with diverse teams across the company — and around the world — to bring our mission of elevating human potential to life. Nike Sales Planning drives profitable, sustainable growth and inventory productivity for Nike and our partners. As a team, we are building a smarter, more connected, and automated value chain.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As a Lead Planner in the NA marketplace, you play a critical role in defining, shaping and meeting consumer demand. You are responsible for defining and leading multi-season sales, receipt, and inventory plans for an influential portfolio of banners to serve consumer demand, while adjusting and aligning based on evolving targets. You can build hypotheses and data driven analysis, translate insights into action through problem-solving and critical thinking skills. You possess a deep understanding of the marketplace, product and inventory planning with actions grounded in qualitative research, data, and insights to support your view. You are a great collaborator who proactively builds positive relationships across the organization. Using your strong financial and commercial acuity, you show good judgment in making decisions and problem solving.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you will serve as a Lead Planner, working cross-functionally to forecast consumer demand, plan optimal supply, and meet financial expectations. You will set tops-down plans for key business dimensions across both Gross-to-Net and Stock & Sales that balance consumer demand, partner strategies, and align with the Consumer Architecture.  Your plans will inform franchise/style plans, financial forecasts, and end-to-end inventory forecasts.  You’ll reconcile forecasts, recap business results, and clearly depict decision impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams. You will also lead and conduct internal/external seasonal financial account meetings while providing overall context to seasonal plans.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will work both within the Nike Sales Planning function and across the broader cross-functional organization including partnering closely with both internal and external marketplace partner stakeholders, Sport Planning, MSC, Finance, and others to deliver top-down financial business targets both pre-season and in-season. Your focus is to understand and share trade-off actions that ultimately drive consumer demand, maximize Nike and Partner margin, and optimize inventory health.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 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
• In-depth knowledge of consumers, competitors, and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred.
• Advanced capabilities in Excel
• Bachelor’s degree required

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.