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.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Merchandising, Economics, Marketing, or a related field; suitable combinations of education, experience, and training accepted
- 4+ years of experience in Planning, Buying, or Sales, emphasizing retail or wholesale financial planning and analysis
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience analyzing large data sets, identifying critical insights, and developing actionable recommendations
- Experience in digital or e-commerce assortment planning, forecasting, in-season performance analysis, and translating consumer demand into product and financial recommendations
- Ability to travel up to 5% of the time
Nike Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nike and has not been reviewed or approved by Nike.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is complemented by options such as a Mega Backdoor Roth and deferred compensation for eligible earners. Financial coaching and structured savings programs support long-term financial security.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a stock discount sits alongside broad-based equity vehicles like RSUs and non-qualified stock options. These avenues expand wealth-building opportunities beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes maternity and paternity time, recently expanded in the U.S. to 16 weeks and extended to part-time retail teammates. Additional supports include childcare assistance at select locations and family-building benefits such as fertility, surrogacy, and adoption.
Nike Insights
What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., we innovate to serve athletes*. Every teammate - from coder to creator - plays a role in making these athletes’ dreams real. Our tech, data, and digital teams push limits every day, building the future of sport and the tools that drive it. Here, curiosity is fuel. Innovation is the game plan. Different perspectives keep us on the offense. You’ll solve challenges worth tackling, grow fast and belong to a team that backs you to do the right thing. Bring your drive. Bring your bold. Let’s move the world, together. Take your first step at nike.com/careers * If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
Why Work With Us
At NIKE, Inc., your dedication fuels the future of sport. There is a sense of pride that comes from representing an iconic brand and shaping its future. Here, we treat every day as a new opportunity to push boundaries, ask tough questions and share whole-hearted convictions. We are a team – united by the belief that anything is possible.
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