Nike SENIOR ASSORTMENT PLANNER EMEA 

Netherlands, North Holland 

550468759

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will be a part of the NMP AP team and closely interact with the NMP MFP teams to ensure plans and directions are aligned long term, pre-season and in-season. You will also form positive relationships with the assortment planning teams to support and guide them to make the right product and assortment decision, keeping the consumer at the center of strategy.

Other key partners are:

• Finance

• Marketplace Merchandising

• Central /GEO MFP & AP

• MSC

• Consumer Marketplace AP

• Insights & Analytics

• Partner Management

We are looking for a Senior Assortment Planner, NMP EMEA to establish clear end to end bottom up franchise plans for one or more major accounts, partnering with the Integrated Commercial Teams, Consumer Marketplace AP, and MFP to create seasonal plans grounded in revenue, inventory, profitability, productivity, margin, and consumer centricity. You will create pre-season franchise plans that support the commercial and product goals of Nike and consumer field of play. You will manage these plans through to in-season optimization and delivery of commercial targets through a robust rolling forecast process and collaborative weekly offense with the Integrated Account Teams and various cross-functional stakeholders.

: You have 5+ years of work experience, preferably in (retail merch) financial planning, and the ability to apply that knowledge independently in your work. Demonstrated experience working with stock and sales plans, high-level P&L comprehension, experience with Excel or other planning tools, and experience with retail KPIs are important for this role. You understand the importance and value of scenario planning. You are able to collaborate optimally with up- & downstream functions and are aware of emerging trends in planning.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Self-Awareness: You have a growth demeanor toward yourself and others. You seek a balance between demonstrating your strengths and working on your development opportunities. You know what motivates you, what your pitfalls are, and what unconscious biases you may bring to the table, and you are able and willing to communicate about them and work on them. You know how to admit your mistakes.

: Your thirst for knowledge is well-known by others. You seek to understand first. You are able to make objective recommendations and draw conclusions based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative insights because you are always willing to challenge your and others’ assumptions.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Co-create and influence the seasonal plan inclusive of RSV, net sales, margin, receipts, and inventory by Franchise/App equivalent for your CFOP(s) and/or MPU(s) (leveraging consistent business logic & analytics) together with Consumer Marketplace AP.

• Develop strategies to meet CFoP strategic and financial goals and own product-driven OTB forecast to inform manufacturing decisions through to in-season optimization

• Analyze the business against plan and forecasted in-season sales and inventories on a monthly or weekly basis, assessing business risk / opportunity & developing action plans and driving escalations where needed

• Monitor top Franchise SSPs & contribute to x-marketplace decision-making to optimize product health and captured consumer demand and inform trading / pricing decisions

• Set and Manage E2E Inventory health within your CFOP(s) & MPU(s), plus understanding any impact on overall marketplace health

• Communicate and advocate Assortment Plan to Partner Management (or internal x-functional leadership team) at Franchise-/App equivalent-level through lens of CFoP and in partnership with Merchandising to optimize sell-in in line with MPU(s) strategy and marketplace role

• Drive the insights that help build the NMP merch financial plan accordingly with consumer-right marketplace capacity and business strategy, including supporting the MFP conversation with central MFP, Finance, and other marketplace teams to drive consumer-right demand plans

• Actively participate in the development and deployment of NMP and MPU multi-year strategy

• Collaborate with Central AP to deliver MPU insights for central reporting, marketplace franchise health monitoring, seasonal templatization, and competitive analysis

• Drive projects independently (day-to-day)

• Prioritize workload & deliverables within projects & workstreams (day-to-day)

• Develop & practice best-in-class storytelling and communication (and provide clarity & visibility with our partners)