Senior Planner, Global

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are looking for a Senior Assortment Planner for Running to establish clear end-to-end bottom-up merchandise plans. This role will partner with Merchandising and MFP to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer-centric offerings. Responsibilities include creating pre-season style level plans that support Nike’s goals and managing in-season optimization through a robust rolling forecast process and collaborative monthly offense with Enterprise Business Planning. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON • Develop seasonal plans and monthly forecasts inclusive of sales, margin and inventory at the style level (leveraging analytics), develop strategies to meet Sport financial goals and own open to buy bottom’s up forecasts to inform manufacturing decisions through to in season optimization • Partner with key stakeholders across Geo and Global to optimize business health throughout the entirety of the product life cycle inclusive of responsive offering • Recap and analyze the business against forecast and forecast sales and inventories on a monthly basis • Product forecasting and in season optimization by analyzing data, & providing actionable insights • Report on forecast variance weekly with action plans and risks & opportunities • Support monthly and seasonal inventory and supply planning activities WHAT YOU BRING • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain and Logistics or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training • Leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season • Demonstrated experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning • Strong ability to influence and ability to design compelling communication grounded in data • Ability to think critically and understand the potential of a style in the marketplace as well as quantify any gaps to financial plans from a bottoms up perspective • Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes • Current understanding of consumer and marketplace trend of Running • 3-5 years directly relevant work experience at minimum 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. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job