Lead Business Planner - NA - City Specialty - NYHQ

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Elevating Nike’s partnership with City Specialty wholesale customers will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just a job. You'll be an ambassador of the Nike brand - everything we stand for: passion for sport, an instinct to innovate, and relentless commitment to serving athletes. Nike’s Sales Planning team partners with diverse teams across the company — and around the world — to bring our mission of elevating human potential to life. Nike Sales Planning drives profitable, sustainable growth and inventory productivity for Nike and our partners. As a team, we are building a smarter, more connected, and automated value chain.

As the Lead Business Planner for City Specialty, you play a critical role in defining, shaping and meeting consumer demand. You are responsible for defining and leading multi-season sales, receipt, and inventory plans for an influential portfolio of accounts to serve consumer demand, while adjusting and aligning based on evolving targets. You can build hypotheses and data driven analysis, translate insights into action through problem-solving and critical thinking skills. You possess a deep understanding of the marketplace, product and inventory planning with actions grounded in qualitative research, data, and insights to support your view. You are a great collaborator who proactively builds positive relationships across the organization. Using your strong financial and commercial acuity, you show good judgment in making decisions and problem solving.

If this is you, you will serve as the Lead Business Planner for Nike’s City Specialty team, working cross-functionally to forecast consumer demand, planning optimal supply, and meeting financial expectations. You will set tops-down plans for key business dimensions across both Gross-to-Net and Stock & Sales that balance consumer demand, partner strategies, and align with the Consumer Architecture.  Your plans will inform franchise/style plans, financial forecasts, and end-to-end inventory forecasts.  You’ll reconcile forecasts, recap business results, and clearly depict decision impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams. You will also lead and conduct internal/external seasonal financial account meetings while providing overall context to seasonal plans.

You will work both within the Nike Planning function and across the broader cross-functional organization including partnering closely with both internal and external Partner stakeholders, Sport Planning teams, MSC, Finance, and others to deliver top-down financial business targets both pre-season and in-season. Your focus is to understand and share trade-off actions that ultimately drive consumer demand, maximize Nike and Partner margin, and optimize inventory health.

• 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 sales 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.
• In-depth knowledge of consumers, competitors, and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred.
• Advanced capabilities in Excel
• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

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.