Overview of the Job: An analytical and collaborative Senior Planner to support NSO business. Optimize consumer demand & supply to serve consumer and drive profitable growth and inventory productivity for NSO.
Build seasonal product investment plan & strategies for retail concepts that tie to the financial targets & brand vision. Play a critical role in cross-function conversations to ensure the team adapt to retail speed & support Nike Strategy.
Pre-season
Job Responsibility:
- Build strategic framework of seasonal product investment plan;
- Lead NSO buy strategy by reconciling topline financials, brand roadmap, consumer moments, membership plan with bottom-up investment
- Align plan with input and collaboration from key stakeholders including Merchandising and Business Team
- Partner with Supply Planning team to secure capacity & plan inventory flow
In-season
- Weekly analyze and recap marketplace performance
- Recommend key actions to cross function partners to optimize business
Post-season
- Analyze seasonal topline financials and product performance including sell-through, color performance, and SKU productivity
- Provide insights and recommendations to key stakeholders for future season planning
- Recap performance of key retail moments to provide insights for future planning
Functional Skill Required (Hard Skills)
- Buying, Planning, Assortment Planning experience with apparel / footwear in ND retail preferred
- Comprehensive understanding of retail math
- Experience in developing an understanding of consumers, competitors, and retail trends
- Ability to interpret financial sales data to make decisions and recommendations that impact the business
- Advanced knowledge of MS office applications; proficiency in Excel
- Product Knowledge
- Fluent in Chinese & English
- Bachelor degree or above
Experience Required (Soft Skills)
- Keep Open and Proactive
- High profile x-functional communication
- Visionary and Strategic
- Strong team player and management on all aspects of the business
- Learning agility