WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
We are looking for a Senior Planner focused on optimizing the Nike business with Dick's Sporting Goods. They will be the point person for specific product segments and will collaborate with a variety of teams: planning, sales, merchandising, marketplace, and external contributors. They will join a team that embraces inclusivity and diversity.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
This person will play a pivotal role in bringing Nike's marketplace vision to life with specific focus on pre-season forecasting, reacting to in-season trends and results analysis. They 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 Nike and externally with Dick's Sporting Goods. As a Senior Planner, they'll bring curiosity, a self-starter mentality, influential communication skills, and a strong ability to operate in ambiguous situations. They have phenomenal data story telling abilities grounded in retail acumen, planning expertise, and supported through elevated excel capabilities.
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- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
- 5+ years experience in Planning/Buying/Sales with emphasis on retail/wholesale financial planning and analysis with advanced Excel skills.
- A minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience
- Proven ability to leverage large amounts of data, identify critical information, develop recommendations and 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.
- Travel up to 15% of the time.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
On any given day you might be developing style-level plans that 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 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 will 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 will enable success by collaborating with multiple cross functional internal teammates that are based in multiple locations, a remote leader and external planning counterparts.
- You will thrive in a fast-paced, results oriented, team mentality environment.
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.