Lead, Assortment Planning NA - Jordan FNL​/JD Sports

** WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR*
* Our Indianapolis-based Demand & Supply Management (DSM) team is looking for a Lead Assortment Planner focused on optimizing the Jordan Brand business with JD Sports/Finish Line. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in bringing Jordan Brand's marketplace vision to life with specific focus on pre-season forecasting, reacting to in-season trends and results analysis. You will establish clear financial plans while partnering with cross functional teammates to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer demand.

Strong collaboration is a key, working both internally with Jordan/Nike and externally with JD Sports/Finish Line. As a Lead Planner, you'll bring curiosity, a self-starter mentality, influential communication skills, and a strong ability to operate in ambiguous situations. You'll have phenomenal data storytelling abilities grounded in retail acumen, planning expertise and supported through elevated excel capabilities.

** WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON*
* On any given day you might be developing style-level plans to inform financial plans that will fuel assortments and influence buy and supply decisions while partnering with key stakeholders. You'll also continuously monitor performance indicators keeping a pulse on the business: analyzing sales results, managing key product forecasts, in season recommendations and sharing actionable insights on risks and opportunities. You will create plans that optimize business health while achieving financial targets.

You'll use strong communication skills with internal/external partners to elicit information, cultivate productive dialogue, verbalize ideas, and align financial plans with an overarching strategy. You'll enable success by collaborating with multiple cross functional internal teammates and external planning counterparts.

** WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH*
* You'll be the planning point person for Jordan product line in the Indianapolis office and collaborate regularly with a variety of groups and individuals, including (but not limited to): sales, merchandising, planning, marketplace teams, brand, as well as various external contributors and leaders. You'll participate in a team structure that facilitates individual and team performance, supporting and encouraging an open and inclusive environment that embraces diversity, encourages accountability, and drives toward results.

WHAT YOU BRING

+ Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Merchandising, Economics, Marketing, or related field

+ 4+ years experience in Planning/Buying/Sales with emphasis on retail/wholesale financial planning and analysis

+ Proven ability to leverage large amounts of data, identify critical information, analyze, and potentially create new ways of working to develop a recommendation.

+ Strong ability to influence through compelling communication.

+ Able to think critically and understand the potential of a product in the marketplace while identifying gaps to tops-down and bottoms-up financial plan.

+ Advanced Excel skills

+ Travel up to 15% of the time

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 () .

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  and let us know the nature of your request, your location and your contact information.