Lead Business Planner

Please note:

This is an individual contributor or People Leader/Hybrid role based out of our Nike Canada Downtown Toronto HQ (Mondays to Thursdays on‑site and Fridays remote).

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.

Elevating Nike’s partnership in Canada will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just a job. You'll be an ambassador of the Nike brand - everything we stand for: passion for sport, an instinct to innovate, and relentless commitment to serving athletes.

Nike’s Planning function partners with diverse teams across the company to bring our mission of elevating human potential to life. Nike Planning drives profitable, sustainable growth and inventory productivity for Nike and our partners. As a team, we are building a smarter, more connected, and automated value chain.

As a Lead Business Planner in Canada, you play a critical role in defining, shaping and meeting consumer demand. You are responsible for defining and leading multi‑season sales, receipt, and inventory plans 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 acumen, you show good judgment in making decisions and problem solving.

If this is you, you will work 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, partner strategies, and align with the Consumer Architecture. You will maintain monthly rolling forecasts at prescribed product grains that fully capture key Sport and marketplace trends.

Your plans will inform franchise/style plans, financial forecasts, and end‑to‑end inventory forecasts. You’ll reconcile forecasts, recap business results, and clearly depict decision impacts with cross‑functional and leadership teams. You will also lead and conduct internal/external seasonal financial account meetings while providing overall context to seasonal plans.

The Lead Business Planner will report directly to the Senior Manager, Business Planning Canada. You will work both within the Nike Planning function and across the broader cross‑functional organization including partnering closely with both internal and external partners, Sport Planners, MSC, 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, improve Nike and Partner margin, and optimize inventory health.

• 6+ years’ experience in retail, planning and/or product management
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 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
• Deep passion for retail, fluent in the wholesale marketplace and product trends; ability to translate these insights into strategic action plans
• Strong command of Retail metrics…