Supply & Inventory Planning Planner

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The Asia Pacific/Latin America (APLA) Supply & Inventory Management (S&IM) teams mission is to responsibly manage the supply we purchase and the inventory we and partners own in service of profitable growth for Nike. Our team works with stakeholders in the APLA organization (Geo and Territory) as well as Nikes Global Supply & Inventory Operation teams. Our team has governance over Finished Goods purchasing processes and recovery action plans to solve for buy and late delivery issues.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

APLA S&IM is looking for a Supply and Inventory Planner. This role will support and participate in seasonal planning and execution for a given Territory serving as the teams primary point of contact for all supply planning and purchasing activities. This candidate will ensure the rights products are planned and purchased at the right time evaluate risks and opportunities escalate issues and communicate all relevant information within S&IP and Geo/Terr x-functional teams to drive optimal business results. This role partners cross functionally representing S&IP representing key metrics and actions.

This candidate will ensure the right products are planned and purchased at the right time evaluate risks and opportunities escalate issues and communicate all relevant information across S&IM Geography and Territory crossfunctional partners to drive optimal business results.

The candidate needs to have a proven track record of information seeking analytical skills resolving complex business issues and making sound decisions as well as the ability to communicate complex and/or businesscritical topics to a wide and diverse audience. Experience working with distributor models or multistakeholder environments is a plus.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• A typical day/week revolves around facilitating twice monthly delivery planning process and ensure that all materials are planned and purchased on the appropriate timelines.
• You will be responsible for executing and managing supply commitments through creation of POs maintaining changes ensuring accuracy and ensuring product movement from factory to DC as expected.
• Youll be conducting analysis to proactively identify challenges and tell a story through core business metrics (PIFOT Coverage and Unplanned). This includes supporting flow optimization decisions (M1/M2/M3) where relevant to the Mexico Territory.
• You will be proactively driving actions to keep a healthy inventory position escalating issues that will cause unfulfilled demand and/or delays. You will participate in unplanned resolution processes and help recommend mitigations including flow adjustments or expedite (FAF) considerations where appropriate.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will report into the Supply & Inventory Management Territory Manager working closely with Nike Territory Planning and Inventory Ops teams Geography Sports Planning and Merch teams Global Supply Planning and other partner teams as needed.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Minimum of 1 year of supply/inventory planning or supply chain experience
• Bachelors degree or an additional 2 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Excellent written spoken and visual communication skills with demonstrated capability converting complex concepts into clear and compelling stories
• Flexibility in switching between strategic tactical and operational levels of work
• Superior interpersonal influencing and facilitation skills; ability to work crossfunctionally and crossculturally fostering productive relationships with key partners
• Validated strong analytical skills with ability to extract insights from large datasets and create executiveready storytelling
• Strong Excel skills (pivot tables formulas Power Query/Power Pivot macros etc.)
• Strong collaboration/teamwork skills to work with multiple stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate good decisionmaking in ambiguous circumstances
• Must have tolerance for a complex everchanging and dynamic work environment (duplicate removed; now appears only once)
• Participate on projects including system releases as assigned

Additional Tech Experience

• Prior SAP experience preferred including PRA/PRD access PO creation/cancellation (including MPOs) and use of Order Management Reports
• Experience using BHP for realtime PO visibility reporting and downloads
• Experience using APO DP for demand planning inputs
• Familiarity with STR (SAP live buy plan) for buy signal validation
• Familiarity with NikeConnect (PMD/PDP) for product and material validations

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.