Lead, Supply & Inventory Planning ManagerHybrid

Title: Lead, Supply & Inventory Planning Manager

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 3 months contract

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 APLA Supply & Inventory Planning team’s mission is to optimize our Supply and Demand match while ensuring our key inventory targets are met. It has interaction across various stakeholders in the APLA organization and Nike’s Global Supply & Inventory Planning teams. Our team also has governance over Finished Goods Purchasing processes and recovery action plans to solve for buy and late delivery issues.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Supply and Inventory Planning Manager to drive supply/inventory health for key segments of the APLA consumer business. 

This role will own and manage supply and inventory plans across multiple seasons, ensuring that all products are planned, evaluating risks and opportunities, escalating issues, and communicating all relevant information within S&IP and Consumer teams that drive productive inventory and strong business results. This role will collaborate and influence cross functional business partners through proactive planning and analysis of key metrics to create strategic supply and deliver healthy & productive inventory positions.  

The candidate needs to have proven track record of strategic thinking, resolving complex business issues as well as the ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and provide recommendations to a wide and diverse audience. Candidates will be advanced in Excel specifically with complex analysis and storytelling with data.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you will be accountable for the planning performance and inventory health of an assigned consumer segment, collaborating with internal and cross functional teams. You will lead monthly inventory and supply reviews, including issue escalation and storytelling to leadership and stakeholder teams. You’ll be conducting analysis to proactively identify challenges and manage communication, recommendations and execution of a wide variety of supply shaping activities. You will drive multi-season KPI reviews across key franchise or classifications to drive inventory health on our most critical products; influencing marketplace decisions and future inventory investment. At times, we will look to you to take initiative on projects and support and enhance key initiatives that have an impact to our day-to-day business.

A typical day/week revolves around proactively driving actions to keep a healthy inventory position in the assigned business segment. You will leverage multiple reports and dashboards to review key metrics, escalating any issues that will cause unfulfilled demand and/or a delay to the expected timelines and lead recommendations/decisions that maintain a healthy Weeks of Supply for your Consumer Segment. You will report and communicate to territory teams and consumer planning teams delivery expectations, risks and opportunities. You will support and enhance critical initiatives that are relevant to our GEO and Territories. 

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will report into the Supply & Inventory Planning Director, working closely with S&IP analysts and inventory operations to resolve issues. You will serve as the S&IP key partner for the Merchandising Planning leadership team, including Assortment Planners, Merchandising and Global Supply Planning. 

WHAT YOU BRING

• We are looking for a leader that is process-oriented, results driven, and able to strategize and innovate to create a roadmap for the future. Key to success in this role will be the ability to be a flexible thinker and outstanding communicator who is comfortable working cross-functionally to drive change and influence leaders while also developing rigorous processes and well-communicated deliverables.
• Advanced planning expertise with clear understanding of E2E Planning Ecosystem; including Retail Sales / Demand, Supply / Inventory, Revenue / Margin and Operational Planning. 
• Understanding of product, merch or consumer code processes with strong consumer awareness and ability to interpret consumer trends into effective plans. 
• Experience assessing and mitigating risks and liabilities that could disrupt our ability to meet market demand; strong ability to assess and quantify risks, determine scenarios and tradeoffs and recommendations with balanced incentives 
• Flexibility in switching from strategic to tactical and operational levels of thinking and working, specifically in strategy deployment ensuring priorities are clear and plans are aligned to meet commitments and organizational goals