Demand Planner

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 6-Month Contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries, and push the edges of what can be. We look for people who can grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. We seek achievers, leaders, and visionaries - people who bring skill and passion to a challenging, ever-evolving game.

In this role, you will support future forecasting for the basketball footwear, apparel, and equipment business. You will analyze current marketplace plans to manage franchise health, tell a story through data, and collaborate cross-functionally with merchandising, product, and analytics teams.

• Set, review and reconcile periodic demand plans (including assortments, flow, drops, stock-keeping unit productivity and allocations to maximize revenues and minimize closeout inventory).
• Taking the lead in demand management (including communication of purchase position, forecast variances, and prioritize, negotiate and resolve category-specific inventory issues).
• Taking the lead in Demand & Delivery performance analysis (including building inventory management awareness, analyze inventory data & KPI's, manage and track key targets on inventory and delivery performance).
• Operational excellence (including knowledge of planning tools, their dependencies and associated systems, being accurate, communicating well and an understanding of KPI's and resulting improvements).

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3-5 years of minimum experience in a demand, marketplace, or supply chain planning role
• Strong business acumen
• General knowledge of supply chain principles
• Retail math knowledge
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Familiarity with Tableau
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently
• Adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity
• Curious passion for sports, the Nike brand, and basketball