SUPPLY AND INVENTORY PLANNER

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NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the worlds 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, Inc. its about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

The NIKE, Inc. Supply Chain team is the engine that propels product around the world. Supply Chain experts ensure that every year, almost a billion units of footwear, apparel and equipment arrive at the right place, at the right time.

To ensure this complex job goes off without a hitch, Supply Chain teams work with a network of more than 50 distribution centers, thousands of accounts, and more than 100,000 retail stores worldwide making the impossible happen every single day.

The APLA Supply & Inventory Planning Teams mission is to optimize our Supply and Demand match while ensuring our key inventory targets are met.

It has interaction across various collaborators in the APLA organization and Nikes Global Supply & Inventory Planning teams.

Our team also has governance over Finished Goods Purchasing processes and recovery action plans to tackle buy and late delivery issues.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR This role will support and participate in the planning execution, serving as the planning teams primary point of contact for all inventory planning needs.

This candidate will ensure that all products are planned, evaluate risks and opportunities, advance issues, and communicate all relevant information within Supply & Inventory Planning and Consumer Planning / Marketplace Planning teams to drive positive business results.

This role partners cross-functionally, representing IP, and explaining critical standards and actions.

We are looking for a candidate that has a proven track record of information seeking, analytical abilities, tackle sophisticated business issues and making sound decisions as well as the ability to communicate sophisticated and / or business critical topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience.

This person will need to successfully collaborate with cross-functional team members on a regular basis and proactively address, resolve, and / or advance any operational issues affecting the timely purchasing of product.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON A typical day / week revolves around facilitating twice monthly delivery planning process and ensure that all materials are planned & purchased on the appropriate timelines under Demand Supply Management (DSM) function.

This role will be responsible for carrying out and leading supply commitments through creation of purchase orders (POs) for procurement of Nikes finished goods and the management of buy exceptions.

You will maintain any changes to POs, including product movement from factory to distribution center. You will review POs for conformance to company policy and may address issues related to delivery.

In this role, conducting analysis to proactively identify challenges, at the same time be able to tell a story, driving clarity for your essential team members through key business metric (PIFOT-Planned in Full On Time, Coverage, and Unplanned), will be steady focuses.

At times, you will be asked to represent our team on projects and support key initiatives that have an impact to our day-to-day business.

The Supply and Inventory Planner will proactively drive actions to keep a healthy inventory position in the assigned business.

You will use multiple reports and dashboards to review key metrics, advance any issues that will cause unfulfilled demand and / or a delay to the expected timelines.

You will report and communicate to territory teams and consumer planning teams delivery expectations, risks and opportunities.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH The Supply and Inventory Planner will report into the Supply & Inventory Purchasing Manager and Planning Director, working closely with Consumer teams and Inventory Operations team to resolve issues related to supply & inventory.

You will also work closely with the Consumer Planning team, including Assortment Planning, Integrated Marketplace Planning and Merchandise Financial Planning as well as Global Supply Planning and Territory collaborators.

• Bachelor's degree or higher or combination of relevant education, experience and training.
• Minimum of 1 year of supply / inventory planning, or supply chain experience required.
• Excellent written, spoken and visual communication skills. Specifically, well demonstrated capability converting complex concepts into easy to interpret stories that resonate across a varied audience.
• Flexibility in switching from strategic to tactical and operational levels of thinking and working, specifically in strategy deployment.
• Superior interpersonal, influencing and facilitation skills with the ability to work both cross-functionally and cross-culturally, specifically fostering productive relationships between key players and immediate team.
• Validated analytical abilities, finding pertinent information within large data sets and create executive story.
• Solid understanding of Excel (pivot tables, formulas, macros)
• Prior SAP experience preferred.
• Tableau & Cognos user preferred.
• A tolerance for a sophisticated, constantly evolving and dynamic work environment.
• Ability to demonstrate good decision making in ambiguous circumstances.
• Participate on projects, including system releases, as assigned.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development.

No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission : To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

How We Hire

At NIKE, Inc. we promise to provide a premium, inclusive, compelling and authentic candidate experience. Delivering on this promise means we allow you to be at your best and to do that, you need to understand how the hiring process works. Transparency is key.

This overview explains our hiring process for corporate roles. Note there may be different hiring steps involved for non-corporate roles.

Benefits

Whether its transportation or financial health, we continually invest in our employees to help them achieve greatness inside and outside of work.

All who work here should be able to realize their full potential.

Job titleSupply and Inventory PlannerLocationBeaverton, OregonNIKE, Inc. is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all NIKE employees and job applicants and offers a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including readers and sign language, accessible and single location for in-person interviewers, modified equipment / devices and closed captioning.

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