Lead Business Planner, North America

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will work both within the Nike Sales Planning function and across the broader cross-functional organization, including partnering closely with internal marketplace partner stakeholders, Sport Planning, Marketplace Supply Chain, 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.

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.

• 6+ years’ experience in retail, planning and/or product management

• Strong ability to influence and 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 Operating 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 in business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You will serve as a Lead Business Planner, working cross-functionally to forecast consumer demand, plan optimal supply, and meet financial expectations. You will help choreograph the NMP Marketplace Planning process for a subset of Sports creating tops-down plans across both Gross-to-Net and Stock & Sales that balance consumer demand, partner strategies, and align with the Sport Architecture. You will then translate and synthesize these plans into action points to drive franchise/style plans, financial forecasts, and end-to-end inventory forecasts specifically partnering with our upstream Sport Planning Teams. You’ll reconcile forecasts, recap business results, and clearly depict decision impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams acting as the Marketplace Sport Expert.

• Leads the recurring planning processes across the Nike Wholesale Marketplace driving consistency in approach and high fidelity in all planned metrics

• Supports the reconciliation of the operational & assortment plan through the lens of Sport and Marketplace

• Drive proactive connectivity between the Sales Planning and Sport Planning Functions resulting in a truly connected operating plan across the Geo owned timeframes (Seasons 1-6)

• Organize risks and opportunities, monitoring tradeoffs and highlighting required actions across key code and fiscal moments

• Serve as a subject matter expert for the Nike Marketplace for a subset of Sports

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.