Global Nike Direct Merchandise PlannerHybrid

Title: Global Nike Direct Merchandise Planner

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 4 months contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Position Summary

A Global Marketplace merchandise planner supports strategic marketplace planning for Nike Direct Channels, partnering across Merchandising, Marketplace, Sales, Finance, Sport Planning, and Geographic Planning teams to translate consumer demand into actionable marketplace strategies.

You serve as a key connective point between global strategy and marketplace execution, driving decisions that shape product assortments, franchise investments, seasonal priorities, and retail performance across a multi-billion-dollar global business. The role combines assortment planning with strategic planning, business analytics, marketplace insights, and executive storytelling to influence both short-term performance and long-term growth.

The position requires frequent collaboration with global and geography teams to assess business performance, identify opportunities and risks, and align seasonal plans that create consumer-right assortments across owned channels

Key Responsibilities

Global Nike Direct Planning

• Develop and maintain a forward-looking view of marketplace demand, consumer trends, and product performance.
• Partner with global and geography planning teams to build demand plans aligned to seasonal priorities and strategic business objectives.
• Translate marketplace insights into recommendations that influence assortment, inventory, and investment decisions.
• Drive alignment between global priorities and geographic marketplace needs. 

Help Shape Franchise and Assortment Strategy

• Analyze franchise health, portfolio evolution, and category performance across multiple consumer segments and channels.
• Evaluate opportunities to expand emerging franchises while reducing reliance on legacy business drivers.
• Influence assortment decisions through marketplace insights, performance analysis, and consumer demand signals.
• Partner with merchandising and product teams to inform future line planning and seasonal product strategies. 

Support Business Reviews and Performance Management

• Support creating and updating executive-level scorecards, dashboards, and business reviews that monitor global retail performance.
• Provide senior leadership with clear perspectives on performance trends, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Consolidate insights across Nike Direct, partner marketplaces, and retail channels into a single marketplace narrative.
• Support key planning forums, operating reviews, marketplace reviews, and seasonal business checkpoints. 

Deliver Advanced Marketplace Analytics

• Help build scalable analytical frameworks that improve visibility into sales performance, consumer behavior, inventory health, and marketplace trends.
• Leverage automation, data science, and AI-enabled processes to accelerate decision-making and reporting efficiency.
• Translate complex datasets into clear business implications and strategic recommendations.
• Develop tools, reporting solutions, and planning methodologies that can be adopted across the broader organization.