Senior Assortment Planner Accessories Global

nike

📍 beaverton oregon united states🕐 30d ago🔗 workday

Job Description

**WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH** This role sits within Global Planning and partners across Merchandising, Business Planning, Enterprise Business Planning, and Geo and Global teams to build consumer-right assortment plans, optimize business health, and connect product decisions to financial outcomes across the product life cycle. **WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR** The Senior Assortment Planner for Global Accessories brings clarity, precision, and commercial instinct to the planning process. This person knows how to build bottom-up assortment plans that connect consumer demand, product potential, profitability, productivity, sales, margin, and inventory. They are a strong analytical thinker who can translate data into compelling recommendations, influence cross-functional partners, and make trade-offs that strengthen business outcomes. They will bring a current understanding of consumer and marketplace trends, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to evaluate style-level opportunities with discipline and speed. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across seasonal planning, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, inventory planning, and in-season optimization. They use statistical forecasting, data science, and new ways of working to make better decisions and move the business forward. The candidate will bring: * Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Merchandising, Analytics, Supply Chain, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training. * Requires a minimum of 3+ years of directly relevant work experience in assortment planning, financial planning, product planning, inventory planning, or a related field. * Demonstrated ability to influence partners and deliver compelling, data-grounded communication. * Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quantify gaps to financial plans from a bottom-up perspective. * Experience leveraging analytics, statistical forecasting, data science, and evolving ways of working to develop plans and guide decisions. **WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON** You will build seasonal plans, manage rolling forecasts, and turn data into decisions that shape product, inventory, and financial outcomes. You will partner across functions to optimize plans from pre-season strategy through in-season execution. * Develop seasonal plans and monthly forecasts for sales, margin, and inventory at the style level, using analytics to support Sport financial goals. * Own bottom-up forecasts that inform manufacturing decisions and drive in-season optimization. * Partner with Merchandising, Business Planning, Enterprise Business Planning, and Geo and Global stakeholders to strengthen business health across the product life cycle. * Build pre-season style-level plans grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer-centric assortment choices. * Recap and analyze business performance against forecast, then translate findings into monthly sales and inventory forecasts. * Analyze product performance, surface actionable insights, and communicate risks, opportunities, and forecast variance with clear action plans. * Support monthly and seasonal inventory and supply planning activities that help the team make sharper, faster decisions. 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 [Candidate Accommodation Request Form](https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5153e46a93f4460db48eb9e611386685).
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