Assortment Planner

Do you want to work for one of the world's most iconic brand? This is your chance! For our client Nike, we are looking for an Assortment planner. It is a role for 40 hours a week.

The European Headquarters are located in Hilversum. You will work 3 days at the office, it is possible to work from home for 2 days. We are looking for someone that can start as soon as possible. It is a temporary role till the beginning of September 2025.

We are looking for an Assortment Planner.

What you bring:

• Planning: at least 1 year of experience in planning or operations. Ability to apply that knowledge independently in your work. Basic understanding of financial-, product and supply planning;
• You have a good understanding of the retail matrix. It's a must that you already have experience working for a retail organization.
• Analytics: demonstrate statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of thinking to develop plans and drive better decisions. Expand existing frameworks to do analysis in a logical structure. Expertise in Excel. PowerBI, Tableau and Sap are a pr
• Insights: demonstrate strong problem-solving & critical thinking skills by developing validated plans that optimize trade-off & outcomes. Think beyond prescribed solution, demonstrates industry & market trends to improve business outcomes. Understand
• Consumer focus: understand consumer needs & marketplace from available data and able to link plan with market trends. Awareness of product portfolio and strategy, including expectations around consumer response, growth opportunities and product lifec
• Story telling: craft compelling communication that articulate the story and insights with a clear summary of the main ideas. Strive for a clear and inspiring vision that others can relate to;
• Influence: connect with visibility and confidence in order to gain agreement and alignment amongst a broad range of partners. Listen actively & make insightful contributions to advance the conversation;
• You have relevant work experience as a planner, experience in retail planning is an advantage.

As an Assortment planner you will build product-level depth and breadth plans to meet consumer demand, while improving full-price realization and inventory efficiency. In partnership with other stakeholders within Nike, you will help advise the Consumer/Product Engine architecture framework at regular touch points.

You will provide information, analysis and recommendations to drive planning decisions during all phases of seasonal product creation. You will utilize sophisticated forecasting techniques to analyze market and product trends to develop seasonal demand forecasts and long range plans.

You will have the opportunity to develop detailed product demand plans that meet seasonal and lead the revenue targets. Be responsible for the planning processes to meet multi-season calendar timelines, ensure data integrity and continually improve forecast accuracy.

• Land the seasonal plan for a specific gender/dimension at style/color/size in alignment with merchandising and guided by the consumer strategy;
• Drive the consumer Franchise/key classification Stock & Sales Planning for the EMEA marketplace, supporting the Consumer Franchise management strategy;
• Analyze demand information, product, market & platform performance through point of sales data, statistical analysis and data focused decision-making toolsets;
• Collaborate with key x-functional partners to deliver a meaningful perspective on pre-season and in-season risks & opportunities;
• Join assortment conversation with the x-functional Marketplace team to drive right consumer demand plans;
• Own the EMEA Consumer Responsive Plans across the Nike Consumer Code;
• Be responsible for the Demand plan that triggers the Supply signal, submit/update in APO DP at key dates;
• Foster an end-to-end process improvement approach to adjust ways of working and embed the retail planning fundamentals.

You will work at the Nike European Headquarters in Hilversum. It is a dynamic, energizing place to work that reflects the values and spirit of the brand. Your colleagues come from all over the world, the team is diverse.

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 € 0,21 per km
• 25 vacation days if you work 40 hours per week a full year
• Diverse team

Are you interested in this challenging job? Then respond via the button and add a recent CV and short motivation to your application.

Esmée Buitenhuis

Senior intercedent

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