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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 Brand’s 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, you’ll bring curiosity, a self-starter mentality, influential communication skills, and a strong ability to operate in ambiguous situations. You’ll have phenomenal data storytelling abilities grounded in retail acumen, planning expertise and supported through elevated excel capabilities.

You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

• 4+ years experience inPlanning/Buying/Saleswith 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

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. You’ll 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. You’ll use strong communication skills with internal/external partners to elicit information, cultivate productive dialogue, verbalize ideas, and align financial plans with an overarching strategy. You’ll enable success by collaborating with multiple cross functional internal teammates and external planning counterparts.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:

You will partner cross functionally with Buying, Consumer Planning, Allocation, Merch Financial Planning, and Marketing/ Brand teams.

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training

• A minimum of 3 years directly relevant work experience

• Ability to leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season

• Demonstrated experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning.

• Strong ability to influence and ability to design compelling communication grounded in data

• Ability to think critically and understand the potential of a style in our store fleet as well as quantify any gaps to financial plans from a bottoms up perspective

• Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes

• Current understanding of consumer and marketplace trend

• Experience planning a stores centric business a plus

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON:

Working on this team will be rewarding, it'll be challenging, and it'll most definitely not be just another job. You'll 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. In this role you'll establish clear assortment plans that tell a story for the season and helps buying to create a line grounded in profitability and a consumer-centric offering. This will include collaborating with buying and other cross functional partners to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial plans and product opportunities.

You will:

• Present financial plans, forecasts and strategies in key meetings. You'll 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. You'll collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge. In addition, you'll 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.

• Develop seasonal plans and monthly forecasts inclusive of sales, margin and inventory at the style color level (leveraging analytics), develop strategies to meet North America Value Stores financial goals and own open to buy bottoms up forecasts to inform manufacturing decisions through to in season optimization

• Recap and analyze the business against forecast weekly and forecast in-season sales and inventories on a monthly basis

• Product forecasting and in season optimization by analyzing data, & providing actionable insights

• Report on forecast variance weekly with action plans and risks & opportunities

• Support monthly and seasonal inventory planning and management activities

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:

You will partner cross functionally with Buying, Consumer Planning, Allocation, Merch Financial Planning, and Marketing/ Brand teams.

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training

• A minimum of 2 years directly relevant work experience

• Ability to leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season

• Demonstrated experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning.

• Strong ability to influence and ability to design compelling communication grounded in data

• Ability to think critically and understand the potential of a style in our store fleet as well as quantify any gaps to financial plans from a bottoms up perspective

• Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes

• Current understanding of consumer and marketplace trend

• Experience planning a stores centric business a plus

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON:

Working on this team will be rewarding, it'll be challenging, and it'll most definitely not be just another job. You'll 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. In this role you'll establish clear assortment plans that tell a story for the season and helps buying to create a line grounded in profitability and a consumer-centric offering. This will include collaborating with buying and other cross functional partners to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial plans and product opportunities.

You will:

• Present financial plans, forecasts and strategies in key meetings. You'll 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. You'll collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge. In addition, you'll 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.

• Develop seasonal plans and monthly forecasts inclusive of sales, margin and inventory at the style color level (leveraging analytics), develop strategies to meet North America Value Stores financial goals and own open to buy bottoms up forecasts to inform manufacturing decisions through to in season optimization

• Recap and analyze the business against forecast weekly and forecast in-season sales and inventories on a monthly basis

• Product forecasting and in season optimization by analyzing data, & providing actionable insights

• Report on forecast variance weekly with action plans and risks & opportunities

• Support monthly and seasonal inventory planning and management activities

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Key stakeholders:

• China Geo Teams (Responsiveness Supply Planning, Merch)

• Technology & Analytics

• Materials Supply Chain Teams (Planning, Costing, Sourcing, Material Source Option, Materials Management) Partners

• FW & AP Product Supply Chain Partners (Sourcing, Global Supply Planning, Partner Management)

• AP and FW Product Creation Teams (GLAM, Materials Development)

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training

• A minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience, in product creation, planning, sourcing or manufacturing preferred across either Footwear or Apparel & Accessories.

• Strong problem-solving skills and an innate tenacity and desire to tackle complex situations.

• Ability to navigate through a complicated stakeholder matrix to achieve results and drive strategic decision making

• Data driven decision making skills and ability to parse through multiple sets of complex information to make decisions

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience influencing across different functional organiations

• A strong growth mindset as this role is looking for a proactive, thoughtful self-starter who embraces and leads change through strategic, innovative solutions while driving clarity and accountability to manage a dynamic materials supply chain environment.

• Ability to travel 5%

Leadership Capabilities are as follows:

• Instills Trusts

• Acts with Courage

• Embraces and Leads Change

• Fosters Effective Teamwork

• Values Differences

• Communicates Vision and Purpose

• Thinks Strategically

• Cultivates Innovation

• Drives Clarity

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

In this role, you will lead and coordinate cross-functional efforts to optimize materials demand signals for China Responsiveness Apparel and Footwear products as a representative of both Materials Planning and Sourcing. You will analyze demand and capacity, ensuring on-time production from key vendors while driving sustainable sourcing changes. You will quantify the benefit of responsiveness strategies and drive data-driven decision making. As a subject matter expert, you will engage with stakeholders and may need to accommodate late-evening commitments due to time zone differences.

Future Capabilities Development:

• Collaborate with the Materials Planning Director and Global Materials Planning & Sourcing leadership to identify gaps and opportunities in the current processes.

• Create and execute strategies and capabilities for a responsive materials supply chain that ensures on-time delivery while managing inventory and costs.

• Partner with Tech & Analytics teams to scope and develop new analytics and systems capabilities as needed.

• Create and support vision for long-term China Responsiveness materials planning & sourcing operating model & org structure, supporting potential resource asks in future corporate planning cycles