Merchandise & Assortment Planner

Nike; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike is seeking a Merchandise & Assortment Planner contractor to manage OTB budgets and assortment plans across digital and marketplace channels from Beaverton. The role involves analyzing POS data, sell-through rates, and inventory positions to drive weekly and seasonal business decisions.

You will lead weekly business reviews with merchant and planning counterparts, build and present assortment plans and performance stories to senior leadership, and identify opportunities and risks to inform

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in merchandise planning, assortment planning or retail buying.
• Strong retail math, OTB management, margin, sell-through and weeks of supply are daily vocabulary.
• Advanced Excel skills; Cognos experience a plus.
• Ability to tell a clear story with data in weekly business review formats.
• Experience working with merchant and planning partners in a matrix environment.
• Ecommerce or direct-to-consumer channel planning experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage OTB budgets and assortment plans across digital and marketplace channels.
• Analyze POS data, sell-through rates and inventory positions to drive weekly and seasonal business decisions.
• Lead weekly business reviews with merchant and planning counterparts.
• Build and present assortment plans and performance stories to senior commercial leadership.
• Identify opportunities and risks in current season and make in-season trading recommendations.

Skills

Merchandise planning

Assortment planning

Retail buying

Data storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Ecommerce planning

Tools

Excel

Cognos

Job description

Typical Title: Merchandise & Assortment Planner

Locations: Beaverton, OR | Boston, MA

As a Merchandise & Assortment Planner contractor at Nike, you can do work with impact.

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.

The Merchandise & Assortment Planner typically manages commercial assortments and OTB across marketplace channels.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Manage OTB budgets and assortment plans across digital and marketplace channels.
• Analyze POS data, sell-through rates and inventory positions to drive weekly and seasonal business decisions.
• Lead weekly business reviews with merchant and planning counterparts.
• Build and present assortment plans and performance stories to senior commercial leadership.
• Identify opportunities and risks in current season and make in-season trading recommendations.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 2+ years experience in merchandise planning, assortment planning or retail buying.
• Strong retail math, OTB management, margin, sell-through and weeks of supply are daily vocabulary.
• Advanced Excel skills; Cognos experience a plus.
• Ability to tell a clear story with data in weekly business review formats.
• Experience working with merchant and planning partners in a matrix environment.
• Ecommerce or direct-to-consumer channel planning experience is a plus.