Senior Assortment Planner

Overview

As a Senior Assortment Planner 2 Soccer, you will play a critical role in building and executing end-to-end assortment plans for the North America marketplace. This position focuses on bottom-up forecasting, in-season optimization, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver profitable, consumer-centric product assortments. This role will support soccer forecasting for the USA and Canada total marketplace, with a primary focus on footwear and a smaller portion of branded apparel.

You will partner closely with merchandising, sales, finance, and planning teams to ensure strong business outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.

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How You Will Contribute

• Develop and own end-to-end bottom-up assortment plans aligned with financial, inventory, and consumer goals.
• Build pre-season style/color plans and manage in-season optimization through rolling forecasts.
• Present financial plans, forecasts, risks, and opportunities to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.
• Forecast sales, margin, and inventory at the style-color level using data-driven insights and retail math.
• Analyze business performance versus forecast and provide actionable recommendations on a monthly and seasonal basis.
• Partner across regional and global teams to optimize business health across the full product lifecycle.
• Support manufacturing and inventory decisions through open-to-buy forecasting and in-season adjustments.
• Actively manage aging inventory and close-out strategies in collaboration with account teams.
• Communicate clearly and effectively, using data storytelling to influence decisions and align stakeholders.

• Minimum 35 years of experience in demand planning, assortment planning, or forecasting.
• Hands-on experience with forecasting and planning in a retail or consumer products environment.
• Strong Excel proficiency and comfort working with large data sets.
• Solid understanding of retail math
  , inventory management, and financial planning.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelors degree preferred (not a hard requirement).

• Experience with planning or forecasting tools beyond Excel.
• Background working with large or global consumer brands
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• Prior experience forecasting footwear or apparel categories.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

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