Lead, Sport Business Planner, APLA

Lead, Sport Business Planner, APLA

Global Grade: 40

Who You'll Work With

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

Who We Are Looking For

We're looking for a Lead Business Planner to join our Team! As a Senior 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 for the APLA Brand Impact Sport (BIS) teams to serve consumer demand while adjusting and aligning to the consumer architecture based on targets and actuals. 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 Business 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.
• Commercial and entrepreneurial approach
• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

What You'll Work On

You'll be working with the Sport and broader Business Planning team to define and lead multi-season Business Plans for the APLA, Sport, Consumer, and Marketplace. You will set mid- to long range financial plans based on consumer demand and sport specific strategies as well as reconcile assortment plans with business plans to align to consumer 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 Territories and Sport. You'll work across Sport with Business Planning to reconcile forecasts and communicate results & impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and lead multi-season Business Plan for BIS across APLA territories
• Adjust and align Business Plan to consumer architecture based on targets and actuals
• Determine (Perform) Territory and Geo, Pre-Season top-down financial business targets (Business Plan - Consumer Demand, Revenue, Margin and Inventory) for Geo, Territory, Gender, Channel to inform Franchise/Style plans, Financial Forecasts and E2E Inventory Forecasts
• Inform and Influence E2E inventory liquidation plans within and across Channel
• Define location (Territory, Sport) consumer demand, revenue, receipt and inventory plans
• Determine trade-off actions to drive consumer demand, Nike and partner margin, and optimize overall marketplace inventory health.