Lead, Running Business Planning, Global

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 Sports Planning, Geo BP, Brand BP, EBP, Finance, and others to deliver top-down financial business plans in the Global Horizon. You will also work within the Global Sport team and BP community to bring new planning capacity to life, and work with the Sport team to drive trade-off actions to drive consumer demand, margin, and optimize overall consumer and inventory health.

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.
• Support 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.
• Work on the Sports and Product Engine and within the Business Planning community (Global and Geo) to reconcile forecasts and communicate results & impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams.

Requirements

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

Skills

• Deep understanding of consumer, marketplace, product, and inventory planning with actions grounded in qualitative research, data, and insights.
• Strong financial and commercial acuity with good judgment in decision-making and problem-solving.
• Proactive collaborator who builds positive relationships across the organization with both upstream and downstream functions.