Elevating Jordan Brand’s partnership with Sport Specialty/Sporting Goods will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just a job. You'll be an ambassador of the Jordan Brand - everything we stand for: relentless commitment to serving athletes through Streetwear and Sport.
As the NA Jordan Lead Business Planner for Sport Specialty/Sporting Goods, you play a critical role in defining, shaping and meeting consumer demand. You are responsible for defining and leading multi-season sales, receipt, and inventory plans for Sport Specialty/Sporting Goods to serve consumer demand, while adjusting and aligning based on evolving targets. You can build hypotheses and data driven analysis, translate insights into action through problem-solving and critical thinking skills. You possess a deep understanding of the marketplace, product and inventory planning with actions grounded in qualitative research, data, and insights to support your view. You are a great collaborator who proactively builds positive relationships across the organization. Using your strong financial and commercial acuity, you show good judgment in making decisions and problem solving.
If this is you, you will serve as the merchandise financial planning Lead to Jordan’s Sport Specialty/Sporting Goods team, working cross-functionally to forecast consumer demand, plan optimal supply, and meet financial expectations. You will set tops-down plans for key business dimensions across both Gross-to-Net and Stock & Sales in the MFP o9 planning tool that balance consumer demand, partner strategies, and align with the Consumer Architecture. Your plans will inform franchise/style plans, financial forecasts, and end-to-end inventory forecasts. You’ll reconcile forecasts, recap business results, and clearly depict decision impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams. You will also lead and conduct internal/external seasonal financial account meetings while providing overall context to seasonal plans.
You will work both within the Nike/Jordan Planning function and across the broader cross-functional organization including partnering closely with both internal and external Sport Specialty/Sporting Goods stakeholders, Sales, Sport Business Planning, Sport Assortment Planning, MPO, Finance, and others to deliver top-down financial business targets both pre-season and in-season. Your focus is to understand and share trade-off actions that ultimately drive drive consumer demand, maximize Nike and Partner margin, and optimize inventory health.
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