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Elevating Jordan’s partnership within the Global Marketplace will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just a job. You'll be an ambassador of the Jordan brand - everything we stand for: passion for sport, an instinct to innovate, and relentless commitment to serving athletes through Streetwear and Sport. 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 more connected, and automated value chain.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As the Senior Manager, Jordan Planning, Global you play a critical role in defining, shaping and meeting consumer demand for a portfolio Sport and Marketplace. You are responsible for defining and leading multi-season sales, receipt, and inventory plans both tops down and bottoms up 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.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

As the Jordan Global Planning Sr. Manager, you play the role of player coach while driving

onboarding, training and providing regular collaborative feedback for your direct reports

across marketplace and business planning. You will be involved in strategic projects and

business process improvements, championing efficient and consistent ways of working. You

will serve as the business planning manager for key areas and Sport in the Global

Marketplace, 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 & Sales that balance consumer demand, business

strategies, and align with the consumer and sport architecture. You will obsess the

marketplace strategy by channel, ensuring operating plans and assortment plans drive

sustainable growth and meet strategic objectives. You will foster collaboration among

business planning and assortment planning to ensure consistency of information, share

standard methodologies, and drive new system implementation and adoption. You will work

with your team to elevate key themes and stories and present them in a succinct manner to

drive your business forward. You will be responsible for providing leadership communication

relevant to your team’s areas of business, summarizing key findings and recommendations.

You will help identify meaningful opportunities for growth within your portfolio and

collaborate with cross functional peers to drive actions within your team to bring those

opportunities to life.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

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 partners,

Sport Business Planning, Marketplace Planning, Sport Assortment Planning, Supply

Planning, Merchandising, 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 consumer demand, maximize Nike and Partner margin, and optimize

inventory health.

WHAT YOU BRING

+ Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.

+ 5+ years’ experience in retail, planning and/or product management

+ People & team management experience preferred

+ Strong ability to influence & work constructively with others by communicating effectively. Listens actively and contributes to advance the conversation.

+ Outstanding written/verbal communication, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail

+ Ability to collate and understand relevant channel and market data that integrates and informs the Operating Plan; assessing risk and solving problems to deliver business results

+ Strong command of Retail metrics including Retail Sales, ST%, WOS, Inventory (marketplace + DC), Revenue and Margin with the ability to leverage data for efficient outcome

+ In-depth knowledge of consumers, competitors, and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred.

+ Ability to resolve conflict and manage multiple priorities

+ Demonstrated experience influencing people and teams

+ Ability to build strong working relationships with teammates and cross functional partners

+ Advanced capabilities in Excel and PowerPoint

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) .

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, protected veteran status, or disability. NIKE is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call +1 503-671-4156 and let us know the nature of your request, your location and your contact information.