About the Role
The Global Supply Chain team at NIKE, Inc. is responsible for moving product around the world and delivering an integrated operating plan. The Supply Chain Planning team seeks a graduate intern to explore how consumer demand, marketplace strategies and product plans come together. The intern will work within North America Marketplace Planning and across a broad cross-functional network, contributing to high-priority business initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Support demand, sales, receipt and inventory planning across a portfolio of marketplace partners, sports or product areas.
- Analyse consumer, marketplace, financial and inventory data to identify trends, risks, opportunities and planning trade-offs.
- Help connect top-down financial targets with bottoms-up product and inventory plans across pre-season and in-season timeframes.
- Support recurring planning processes and the reconciliation of operational, assortment and marketplace plans.
- Build forecasts, scenarios, dashboards or decision frameworks that improve visibility and enable timely action.
- Synthesise findings into clear recommendations and communicate decision impacts to cross-functional partners and leaders.
- Contribute to tools, playbooks or process improvements that strengthen planning consistency, accuracy and connectivity.
- Contribute to high-priority, real business initiatives that align with the NIKE, Inc. strategic roadmap.
- Take ownership of a scoped project, with guidance from senior leaders and experienced managers, to drive impact and contribute to team goals.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Currently enrolled in an MBA or relevant graduate degree programme with an expected graduation date of December 2027 or Spring 2028.
- Academic or professional background in Supply Chain, Operations, Planning, Finance, Analytics, Business, Economics, or a related field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to build hypotheses, evaluate trade-offs and translate insights into action.
- Ability to work cross-functionally, influence partners and build relationships across multiple teams and levels.
- Comfort working through ambiguity with curiosity, sound judgment and a bias for action.
- Strong written, verbal and visual communication skills, with the ability to tell a compelling story using data.
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables and data analysis.
- A growth mindset and process-oriented approach, with strong attention to detail.
Preferred Skills
- 3-5 years work experience strongly preferred.
- Experience with forecasting, business planning, demand planning, inventory planning or financial planning.
- Understanding of retail or supply chain metrics such as sales, sell-through, weeks of supply, inventory, revenue and margin.
- Experience with data visualisation or analytical tools.
- Knowledge of consumers, competitors, retail trends or the sports apparel and footwear marketplace.
Workplace
- In-person at the NIKE, Inc. Philip H. Knight Campus in Beaverton, OR.
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About the Company
The team plans, makes and positions products to deliver on the athlete promise on a global scale.