senior assortment planner.

• Salary between € 28 - € 40,- per hour
• Temporary role till the end of February 2025
• 40 hours a week
• Hilversum
• Nike

For this role you need to have demonstrated experience working with stock and sales plans, high-level P&L comprehension, experience with Excel or other planning tools, and experience with retail KPIs are important for this role. You understand the importance and value of scenario planning. You are able to collaborate optimally with up- & downstream functions and are aware of emerging trends in planning.

We are looking for a Senior Assortment Planner with the following business and interpersonal skills:

• Planning: you have 5+ years of work experience, preferably in (retail merch) financial planning, and the ability to apply that knowledge independently in your work.
• Critical thinking: you demonstrate strong problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing proven plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes. You understand retail metrics and business drivers and can flexibly adapt scenarios.
• Risk management: you can asses risks and opportunities that are grounded in facts, make impactful recommendations and present options for resolution. You assess risk within business objectives, taking a holistic business view.
• Analytics: you know how to use statistical forecasting, data science and new ways to develop plans and drive better decisions. You have experience in Excel, PowerBI, or other data modelling applications. This is a must.
• Consumer focus: You can ground yourself quickly in consumer needs and the marketplace from available internal and external data and are able to link your plans to market trends.
• Influencing: your maturity allows you to influence senior stakeholders through a combination of facts and relational skills. You are a good listener, strong communicator and are able to serve as a role model.
• Self-awareness: you have a growth demeanor toward yourself and others. You seek balance between demonstrating your strenghts and working on your development opportunities.
• Curiosity: your thirst for knowledge is well-known by others. You seek to understand first. You are able to make objective recommendations and draw conclusions.

We are looking for a Senior Assortment Planner, NMP EMEA to establish clear end to end bottom up franchise plans for one or more major accounts. You partner with the Integrated Commercial Teams, Consumer Marketplace AP, and MFP to create seasonal plans grounded in revenue, inventory, profitability, productivity, margin, and consumer centricity. You will create pre-season franchise plans that support the commercial and product goals of Nike and consumer field of play. You will manage these plans through to in-season optimization and delivery of commercial targets through a robust rolling forecast process and collaborative weekly offense with the Integrated Account Teams and various cross-functional stakeholders.

• Co-create and influence the seasonal plan inclusive of RSV, net sales, margin, receipts and inventory by franchise;
• Develop strategies to meet CFoP strategic and financial goals and own product-driven OTB forecast to manufacturing decisions to in-season optimization;
• Analyze the business against plan and forecasted in-season sales and inventories on a monthly or weekly basis, assessing business risk and opportunity and developing action plans and driving escalations where needed;
• Monitor top Franchise SSPs and contribute to x-marketplace decision-making to optimize health and captured consumer demand and inform trading and pricing decisions;
• Communicate and advocate assortment plan to partner management. Actively participate in the development and deployment of NMP and MPU multi-year strategy;
• Drive the insights that help build the NMP merch financial plan accordingly with consumer-right marketplace capacity and business strategy;
• Collaborate with Central AP to deliver MPU insights for central reporting, marketplace franchise health monitoring, seasonal templatization and competitive analysis;
• Set and Manage E2E Inventory health within your CFOP and MPU, plus understanding any impact on overall marketplace health.

Demand and Supply Management (DSM) serves the Nike planning function combining insights and analytics to sense and craft how much product consumers will want, where and when they’ll want it.
You will be a part of the NMP AP team and closely interact with the NMP MFP teams to ensure plans and directions are aligned long term, pre-season and in-season. You will also form positive relationships with the assortment planning teams to support and guide them to make the right product and assortment decision, keeping the consumer at the center of strategy.

NIKE EHQ is based on an inspiring campus in Hilversum. A dynamic, energizing place to work that reflects the values and spirit of the brand. Colleagues from all over the world and located in and amongst numerous parks, cycling lanes and running tracks. Nike maintains a hybrid working model, 3 days in the office, 2 days from home.

• Access to the gym facilities on campus;
• Commuting allowance of € 0,23 per km;
• 25 vacation days if you work 40 hours per week a full year;
• Diverse team;
• Work from home allowance of €5 per day on days you are working from home;
• 8.33% holiday allowance.

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