Lead Jordan Brand Assortment Planner, Marketplace Partners
Lead Jordan Brand Assortment Planner, Marketplace Partners
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Job Description
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
Youll be the planning point person for Jordan product line in the WHQ office and collaborate regularly with a variety of groups and individuals including (but not limited to): sales merchandising planning marketplace teams brand as well as various external contributors and leaders. Youll participate in a team structure that facilitates individual and team performance supporting and encouraging an open and inclusive environment that embraces diversity encourages accountability and drives toward results.
** Hiring for multiple roles
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Our WHQ-based Demand & Supply Management (DSM) team is looking for a Lead Assortment Planner focused on optimizing the Jordan Brand business with our Marketplace Partners. In this role you will play a pivotal role in bringing Jordan Brands marketplace vision to life with specific focus on pre-season forecasting reacting to in-season trends and results analysis. You will establish clear financial plans while partnering with cross functional teammates to create a line grounded in profitability productivity and consumer demand. Strong collaboration is a key working both internally with Jordan/Nike and externally with Partner Accounts. As a Lead Planner youll bring curiosity a self-starter mentality influential communication skills and a strong ability to operate in ambiguous situations. Youll have phenomenal data storytelling abilities grounded in retail acumen planning expertise and supported through elevated excel capabilities.
You Bring:
Bachelors degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training
4 years experience in Planning/Buying/Sales with emphasis on retail/wholesale financial planning and analysis
Proven ability to leverage large amounts of data identify critical information analyze and potentially create new ways of working to develop a recommendation
Strong ability to influence through compelling communication.
Able to think critically and understand the potential of a product in the marketplace while identifying gaps to tops-down and bottoms-up financial plan
Advanced Excel skills
Travel up to 15% of the time
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
On any given day you might be developing style-level plans to inform financial plans that will fuel assortments and influence buy and supply decisions while partnering with key stakeholders. Youll also continuously monitor performance indicators keeping a pulse on the business: analyzing sales results managing key product forecasts in season recommendations and sharing actionable insights on risks and opportunities. You will create plans that optimize business health while achieving financial targets. Youll use strong communication skills with internal/external partners to elicit information cultivate productive dialogue verbalize ideas and align financial plans with an overarching strategy. Youll enable success by collaborating with multiple cross functional internal teammates and external planning counterparts.
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.
Employment Type
Full-Time
