Lead Brand Business Planning, Global

Lead Brand Business Planner

You will work both within the Nike Planning function and across the broader cross-functional organization including partnering closely with Sport Planning, EBP, Finance, GMs, and others to deliver top-down financial business targets both pre-season and in-season. You will also work across Sport teams to drive trade-off actions to drive consumer demand, margin and optimize overall consumer and inventory health.

We're looking for a Lead Brand Business Planner to join our Team! As a Lead Brand Business Planner, you will play a meaningful role in defining, crafting and setting consumer demand. You will be responsible for defining and leading multi-season revenue, receipt and inventory plans across Global and Brand teams to serve consumer demand.

You can build hypothesis & data driven analysis, translating insights into action through problem solving and critical thinking skills. You possess a deep understanding of consumer, marketplace, product and inventory planning with actions that are grounded in qualitative research, data and insights to support your view. You are a great collaborator who proactively builds positive relationships across the organization with both upstream and downstream functions. Using your strong financial and commercial acuity, you show good judgment in making decisions and problem solving.

• 5+ years experience in retail planning and/or product management
• Strong ability to influence & work constructively with others by communicating effectively.
• Listens actively and contributes to advance the conversation.
• Outstanding written/verbal communication, analytical capabilities and attention to detail
• Ability to collate and understand relevant market data that integrates and informs the Operating Plan; assessing risk and solving problems to deliver business results
• Strong command of Retail metrics including Retail Sales, ST%, WOS, Inventories (marketplace + DC), Revenue and Margin with the ability to manipulate data for efficient outcome
• Commercial and entrepreneurial approach
• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

You'll be working with the Sport and broader Business Planning team to define and lead multi-season Operating Plans for Global, Sport, and Marketplace. You will set long range financial plans based on consumer demand and Sport strategies as well as reconcile assortment plans with operating plans to align to Sport architecture. Your top-down financial targets will inform franchise/style plans, financial forecasts and end-to-end inventory forecasts, including liquidation plans both within and across Geos and Sport. You'll work across Consumer and Product Engine with Business Planning to reconcile forecasts and communicate results & impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and lead multi-season Operating Plan for Sport and Product Engine
• Adjust and align Operating Plan to Sport architecture based on targets and actuals
• Determine (Perform) Global and Geo, Pre-Season top-down financial business targets (Operating Plan - Consumer Demand, Revenue, Margin and Inventory) for Geo, Gender, and Channel to inform Franchise/Style plans, Financial Forecasts and E2E Inventory Forecasts
• Define location (Geo, Channel, Sport) consumer demand, revenue, receipt and inventory plans
• Determine cross-Sport trade-off actions to drive consumer demand, Nike and partner margin and optimize overall marketplace inventory health

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.