NDDC Assortment Planner, NA

Beaverton, OR - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

WHO YOULL WORK WITH

You will report to the North America Nike Direct Digital Commerce (NA NDDC) Planning Manager and work hand-in-hand with the Merchandising buyers and with a variety of dedicated cross-functional partners focused on develop strategies to meet financial and inventory goals.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Working in Nikes Direct business will be rewarding itll be challenging and itll most definitely not be just another job. We are looking for an Assortment Planner North America for our Nike Direct Digital Commerce (NDDC) team. Youll be an ambassador of the Nike brand - everything we stand for: drive determination the unyielding commitment to excellence. These all will be a part of your everyday experience. Were committed to making every consumers experience a rewarding one and as a member of our Nike Digital and Stores Retail team your contributions will be a big part of our success.

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training
2-3 years of relevant professional experience
Microsoft Excel at high-intermediate to advanced level
Ability to independently drive toward a clear outcome with an unclear path
Natural tendency to organize information coming from various sources and owners and shape clean processes to drive repeatable sustainable outcomes
Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to curate and share out actionable insights from multiple data sources

Highly Preferred:

Experience working in a retail environment
Proven track record in retail planning merchandising inventory management or related operational disciplines
Intermediate data manipulation and visualization skills (i.e. SQL Snowflake Tableau PowerBI)
Experience communicating to executive and a variety of non-technical audiences

WHAT YOULL WORK ON

In this role youll establish clear stock and sales plans that tell a story for the season and help merchandising to create a line grounded in profitability and consumer centric offering. This will include collaborating with the merchandising and business units to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial plans and product opportunities. Youll create pre-season style plans that support the ultimate goal of Nike Direct. Youll recap and analyze the business against the financial plan and forecast in-season sales and inventories on a weekly/monthly/quarterly addition youll develop monthly forecasts of sales and inventory for all basic and fashion styles and will develop strategies to meet department financial goals and own open to buy forecasts.

This role will include presenting financial plans forecasts and strategies in key meetings. Youll proactively report on the health of the business and facilitate smart business decisions communicate financial results forecasts and action plans to managers and cross-functional team members on a weekly basis. Youll collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information share best practices and develop systems addition youll participate in a team structure that facilitates and maximizes individual and team performance supporting and fostering an open and inclusive environment that embraces diversity encourages accountability and drives toward results.

Key Accountabilities:

Support product forecasting & pricing processes by managing reporting tools analyzing data & providing actionable insights
Report on forecast variance weekly
Construct and maintain reporting tools for use across the planning team
Manage weekly markdown process across portfolio in system and alignment with stakeholders
Monitor price positioning across the marketplace and across the product portfolio taking actions to adjust in accordance with overall pricing strategy
Support monthly and seasonal inventory management activities
Actively manage product lifecycles across seasons through close-out process and aging inventory

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.

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