<h2><b>NA JORDAN LEAD BUSINESS PLANNING<br /><span>NORTH AMERICA PLANNING</span></b></h2><p></p><p>Elevating Jordan Brand’s partnership will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just a job. Youll be an ambassador of the Jordan Brand - everything we stand for: relentless commitment to serving athletes. Nike Inc.’s Planning function partners with diverse teams across the company — and around the world — to bring our mission of elevating human potential to life. Nike/Jordan Planning drives profitable, sustainable growth and inventory productivity for Nike/Jordan and our partners. As a team, we are building a smarter, more connected, and automated value chain.</p><p></p><h2></h2><h2>WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR</h2><p></p><p>As the NA Jordan Lead Business Planner, 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 Sport Specialty/Sporting Goods 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.</p><p></p><h2>WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON</h2><p></p><p>If this is you, you will serve as the merchandise financial planning Lead working cross-functionally to forecast consumer demand, plan optimal supply, and meet financial expectations. You will set tops-down plans for key business dimensions across both Gross-to-Net and Stock &amp; Sales in the MFP o9 planning tool 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.</p><p></p><p></p><h2>WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH</h2><p></p><p>You will work both within the Nike/Jordan Planning function and across the broader cross-functional organization including partnering closely with both internal and external stakeholders, Sales, Sport Business Planning, Sport Assortment Planning, MPO, 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 drive consumer demand, maximize Nike and Partner margin, and optimize inventory health.</p><p></p><p></p><h2>WHAT YOU BRING</h2><p></p><ul><li>5+ years’ experience in retail, planning and/or product management</li><li>Strong ability to influence &amp; work constructively with others by communicating effectively. Listens actively and contributes to advance the conversation.</li><li>Outstanding written/verbal communication, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail</li><li>Ability to collate and understand relevant market data that integrates and informs the Merchandise Financial Plan; assessing risk and solving problems to deliver business results</li><li>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</li><li>In-depth knowledge of consumers, competitors, and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred.</li><li>Advanced capabilities in Excel</li><li>Bachelor’s degree required</li></ul><p></p><p><span>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 </span><a href="https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5153e46a93f4460db48eb9e611386685" target="_blank">Candidate Accommodation Request Form</a><span>.</span></p><p></p>