Lead Assortment Planner - Emea

**WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH** This role sits within the EMEA Sport Planning team, focused on Nike Basketball & Kobe. The Lead Assortment Planner co-owns the One EMEA Assortment Plan with Marketplace Planning and partners closely with Merchandising, Marketplace Planning, Business Planning, Global Planning, and Supply & Inventory Management to shape profitable, productive, sport-led seasonal plans that support Nike Inc. goals. **WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR** * Advanced experience in assortment planning across financial, product, and inventory planning. * Growth mindset with the ability to leverage forecasting, data science, and new ways of working to build fact-based plans. * End-to-end planning mindset across marketplace channels and multi-season horizons, grounded in total marketplace health. * Ability to work independently and drive priorities forward with limited guidance. Strong communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills. **CORE BEHAVIOURS** * Wins With Consumers * Thinks Strategically * Embraces and Drives Change * Fosters Effective Teamwork **WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON** * Lead, drive and oversee sport multi-season assortment plans from top-down and bottom-up angles (Sports, Franchise/Product Family, Style-color) and give a clear demand signal to Supply Planning and ultimately Sourcing. * Own Open-To-Buy (OTB) plans and validate those by multi-season rolling Stock & Sales Plans (SSP) to optimize Sales, Margin, Inventory & Product Health. * Lead key Franchise/Product Family health aligning to global Franchise health targets and maintain a pull market. * Define OTB allocations of products which are constrained for production and/or demand capacity. * Influence and align with cross-functional partners in Merchandising, Nike Direct, Sales and S&IM to optimize key Sport and Marketplace seasonal and energy moments. * Lead projects independently by setting project direction, defining scope and proactively prioritizing across wider work and teams. * Strengthen to the broader cross sports planning and functional teams in building a culture of inclusion, engagement, empowerment, and continuous improvement of process and planning capabilities Relocation support is not provided for this role. **Deadline to apply - 10th August 2026**