Lead, Merch Financial Planner, EMEA

WHO YOU'll WORK WITH

The Nike Planning Function combines insights and analytics to sense and craft how much product consumers will want, where and when they'll want it. This offense combines work in the Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) and Assortment Planning (AP) sub functions to support a more detailed and flexible approach to serve consumers and drive inventory efficiency for NIKE and our partners.

You will be a part of the Nike Marketplace Partners (NMP) MFP team and closely interact with the NMP AP teams to ensure plans and directions are aligned long term, pre-season and in-season. Planning is a crucial member of the integrated commercial teams, shaping marketplace plans in line with Nike's strategic priorities and keeping the consumer at the center of strategy. You will collaborate closely with partner management, AP, finance, consumer MFP, supply chain and merchandising.

• You have 8+ years of work experience and demonstrated experience in business planning (both retail and wlsl) & good understanding of finance, merchandizing and supply chain planning processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to engage efficiently with a broad range of audiences including retail partner, senior business leaders and other senior planning leaders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent knowledge of automated planning systems, particularly Excel
• Can identify commercial opportunities and leads decision making based on well-developed merch financial plans
• Demonstrated ability to influence and design compelling communication grounded in data
• A strategic outlook and experience in leading projects
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear storytelling & business acumen
• Bigger picture thinking by understanding how the Nike matrix operates x-functionally

• Shape and contribute to 6 season Merchandise Financial Plan & Stock and Sales Plan (Retail Sales and inventory) for Consumer Fields of Play x Marketplace Units (MPU) including management of R&O
• Maintain Merch Financial Plan at sub-MPU dimensions (e.g. banner, account, account group) and act as a planning function representative and influencer in MPU specific alignment meetings
• Partner with key stakeholders within MPU and across Geo to drive marketplace business health throughout 6 season planning horizon
• Influence and execute In-Season optimization within Marketplace
• Reconcile Assortment Plans with Merch Financial Plan Rolling Forecast and Align to Consumer Fields of Play
• Execute cross-MPU trade-off actions to drive consumer demand, Nike and partner margin and optimize overall marketplace inventory health
• Act as the planning representative within a CFOP Squad, responsible for end-to-end functional and marketplace awareness as the sole functional squad member
• Drive projects independently and lead through others in the absence of official hierarchy (day-to-day)