LEAD JORDAN BRAND ASSORTMENT PLANNER, FOOT LOCKER

Nike; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 67,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike is seeking a Lead Jordan Brand Assortment Planner to join their Demand & Supply Management team in Tampa. This pivotal role focuses on optimizing product line forecasts while maintaining collaboration with both internal teams and external partners. Ideal candidates will bring strong analytical skills, data storytelling abilities, and a proven track record in financial planning within the retail sector.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in Planning/Buying/Sales with emphasis on retail/wholesale financial planning.
• Proven ability to leverage large amounts of data and create recommendations.
• Strong communication skills and critical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Develop style-level plans and inform financial plans.
• Monitor performance indicators and analyze sales results.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners.

Skills

Financial planning

Data analysis

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Retail acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

Tools

Excel

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Who We Are Looking For

Our Tampa-based Demand & Supply Management (DSM) team is looking for a Lead Assortment Planner focused on optimizing the Jordan Brand business with Foot Locker. 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 Foot Locker. 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.

Who We Are Looking For

Our Tampa-based Demand & Supply Management (DSM) team is looking for a Lead Assortment Planner focused on optimizing the Jordan Brand business with Foot Locker. 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 Foot Locker. 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.

Who You Will Work With

You’ll be the planning point person for Jordan product line in the Tampa 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.

You bring;

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
• 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
  
  

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.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing and Sales

• Industries

  Retail

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