Demand PlannerHybrid

Title: Demand Planner

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 7 month 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.

Working at Nike will be rewarding, it'll be challenging, and it'll most definitely won’t be just another job. You'll be an ambassador of the Nike brand - everything we strand for: drive, determination, the unyielding commitment to excellence. These all will be a part of your everyday experience. We're committed to making every consumer's experience a rewarding one, and as a member of our Nike Demand Supply Management team, your contributions will be a big part of our success!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

In this role, this individual will oversee the Nike Direct Digital Commerce and Nike Stored Owned (NDDC/NSO) marketplace planning across the Asia-Pacific/Latin-America business unit. As part of the NDDC/NSO team, this individual will help drive key performance indicators by creating and cultivating plans to elevate the business. They need to possess vast digital experience, along with solid analytical, collaborative, and communication skills. An understanding of Merchandising, Buying and retails sales is strongly recommended!

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• This role will include communicating financial plans, forecasts and strategies in key meetings.
• You will proactively report on the health of the business and facilitate sound business decisions and action plans, to managers and cross-functional team members, on a weekly basis.
• You will collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, create standard methodologies, and develop systems knowledge.
• In addition, you will participate in a team structure that facilitates and enhances individual and team performance, supporting and fostering an open and expansive environment that adopts diversity, encourages accountability, and drives toward results.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

In this role, you will support key business initiatives and goals through demand and supply management. You will partner with the broader cross-functional team to build and refine strategies; you will support strategies with development of comprehensive financial forecasts. You will work across a highly complementary team of counterparts, with key partners that are both WHQ-based and territory-based. You will look across the total marketplace, developing a deep understanding of business needs across both the owned and unowned channels. You will be responsible for supporting multiple product lines, each with unique timelines and nuances.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field
• 5+ years relevant experience in merchandise buying or planning, company planning, merchandising, allocations or operations
• 2 additional years' experience is generally accepted in lieu of degree
• Experience in Digital vertical retail preferred
• Strong and demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and influence others; ability to effectively communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience; experience working with highly-diverse international team preferred
• Strong knowledge of cross team calibration; international experience preferred
• Comprehensive understanding of retail math; ability to interpret financial sales data to make decisions and recommendations that impact the business
• Experience in developing an understanding of customers, competitors and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred
• Experience working across multiple business platforms, including owned website/apps and partner businesses
• Familiarity with merchandise and forecasting management systems
• PC literate with strong working knowledge of Excel
• Ability to develop strong working relationships with management and external resources