WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH Join a dynamic team of planners dedicated to sales planning, where you'll play a key role in shaping the future of the Nike Marketplace Partner (NMP) business. As Senior Assortment Planner, you will collaborate across a wide network of teams, including Merchandising, Finance, Sports & Business planning, and S&IM.
You'll serve as the NMP partner lead in multiple forums, coordinating and consolidating key deliverables for the NMP team. This role reports to Manager, Sales Planning.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR - We are looking for a candidate who has demonstrated experience in assortment / retail planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning. (min +3years)
- Ability to demonstrate a growth mindset that is ready to leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop a fact-based plan.
- Ability to think critically and understand the potential of data & quantify any gaps to financial plan from a product potential perspective.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and design compelling communication / story telling grounded in data.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills and ability to work independently.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON - The Senior Assortment Planner role is responsible for developing and/or
- informing/influencing seasonal plan based on rolling SSP inclusive of retail sales (value / units), receipts, and inventory at the levels of Franchise/Merch Class x Sports x Marketplace unit
- You will develop strategies to meet Sports Offense strategic and financial
- goals and own product-driven OTB forecast to inform manufacturing decisions through
- to in-season optimization.
- Analyze the business against plan and forecasted in-season sales and inventories on a monthly or weekly basis assessing business risk / opportunity & developing action plans and driving escalations where needed Monitor top Franchise SSPs & drive x-marketplace decision-making to optimize product health and captured consumer demand and inform trading / pricing decisions.
- Set and manage E2E inventory health within and across categories &NMP MPU's within your MPU, plus understanding impact on overall marketplace health. Communicate and advocate Assortment Plan to x-functional leadership team at Franchise-/Merch Class- level through the lens of Sports Offense and In partnership with Merchandising to optimize sell-in in line with MPU strategy and marketplace role.
- Drive projects independently; Prioritize workload and deliverables within the project.
*Application Deadline: March 4th 2026 (11:59pm)
