Merchandise Planner

Title: Merchandise Planner 3

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 8 months contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Nature of the work is focused on planning merchandise priorities to ensure product arrives at the right place and the right time for the consumer.

• Drives financial results that maximize sales, inventory, and gross margin profitability at the SKU level up to the category total, for both Nike and the retailer.
• Manages the financial success of area of responsibility by meeting strategic objectives.
• Establishes clear merchandise plans that tell a story for the season and drives merchandising to create a line plan grounded in profitability and consumer centric offerings
• Recaps and analyzes actual sales results to plan, and forecast in-season sales and inventories.
• Collaborates with retail counterparts to manage sales / inventory plans that yield maximum sales & profits for Nike and the retailer.
• Proactively reports on the health of the business and facilitate smart business decisions.
• Drives process improvements.
• Helps establish consistency in the Planning process, both in documentation and implementation
• Provides retailer information to assist account team in the go to market process.
• Collaborates with the account team in aligning the product assortment & retailer sales/margin/turn goals.
• Provides selling data from current and previous seasons to assist the account team in assortment planning by location cluster/gender/category/class for the Nike Brand.
• Evaluates retailer assortment needs versus Nike, Inc. category objectives, provides opportunities and communicates opportunities/risks.

• Minimum of 5 years Retail/planning experience
• Bachelors Degree
• Self starter
• Ability to story tell with data
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to work in ambiguity
• Time management
• Ability to prioritize
• Team player