Lead Planner, NDDC

This role sits within the Planning function and the Global Sport team, partnering closely with Sports Planning, Geography Business Planning, Brand Business Planning, Enterprise Business Planning, Finance, and other cross-functional teams. It turns consumer, marketplace, product, and inventory insights into clear business actions and leads multi-season sales trend, revenue, receipt, and inventory plans for Kids sports FW. The role partners with Brand teams to serve consumer demand and connects consumer demand, Sport strategies, assortment plans, and financial targets to inform forecasts, inventory decisions, and trade-offs across the global marketplace.

• Define and lead multi-season Operating Plans for Global Sport and the Product Engine.
• Define and lead multi-season sales trend, revenue, receipt, and inventory plans for Kids sports FW, partnering with Brand teams to serve consumer demand.
• Adjust and align Operating Plans to Sport architecture using financial targets, actual performance, consumer demand, and marketplace insights.
• Support Global and Geography pre-season top-down financial targets across consumer demand, revenue, margin, and inventory.
• Define consumer demand, revenue, receipt, and inventory plans across Geography, channel, and Sport.
• Reconcile assortment plans with Operating Plans to maintain alignment with Sport architecture and long-range financial objectives.
• Partner across Global and Geography Business Planning teams to reconcile forecasts and communicate results, risks, opportunities, and business impacts.
• Determine cross-Sport trade-off actions that strengthen consumer demand, support Nike and partner margin, and optimise overall marketplace inventory health.

• 5+ years of experience in retail, planning, and/or product management.
• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field; any suitable combination of education, experience and training will be accepted.
• Ability to turn consumer, marketplace, product, and inventory insights into clear business actions.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, with the ability to build data-driven hypotheses and use critical thinking to solve complex planning challenges.
• Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to collaborate constructively across teams.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, analytical capabilities, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Strong command of retail metrics, including retail sales, sell-through, Weeks of Stock (WOS), inventory, revenue, and margin.