Supply & Inventory Planner, APLA

The Asia Pacific/Latin America (APLA) Supply & Inventory Planning (S&IP) team’s mission is to responsibly manage the supply we purchase and the inventory we and partners own, in service of profitable growth for Nike. Our team works with stakeholders in the APLA organization (Geo and Territory) as well as Nike’s Global Supply & Inventory Planning teams. Our team has governance over Finished Goods purchasing processes and recovery action plans to solve for buy and late delivery issues.

Who You Will Work With

You will report into the Supply & Inventory Planning Territory Manager, working closely with Territory DSM/Ops teams, Geography Consumer Planning and Merch teams, Global Supply Planning, and other partner teams as needed.

Who We Are Looking For

APLA S&IP is looking for a Planning Analyst. This role will support and participate in seasonal planning and execution for a given Territory, serving as the team’s primary point of contact for all supply planning and purchasing activities. This candidate will ensure the rights products are planned and purchased at the right time, evaluate risks and opportunities, escalate issues, and communicate all relevant information within S&IP and Geo/Terr x-functional teams to drive optimal business results. This role partners cross functionally, representing S&IP, representing key metrics and actions.

The candidate needs to have proven track record of information seeking, analytical skills, resolving complex business issues and making sound decisions as well as the ability to communicate complex 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 escalate any operational issues affecting the on-time purchasing of product.

You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of 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 strong analytical skills, finding relevant information within large data sets and create executive story
• Strong knowledge of Excel skills (pivot tables, formulas, macros, etc.)
• Prior SAP experience preferred
• High level Tableau & Cognos user preferred
• Experience with SQL and visualization tools (PowerQuery, PowerPivot, PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx, etc.) desired
• Must have tolerance for a complex, ever-changing and dynamic work environment
• Ability to demonstrate good decision making in ambiguous circumstances
• Participate on projects, including system releases, as assigned
• Strong collaboration/teamwork skills to work with multiple stakeholders
  
  

What You Will Work On

• A typical day/week revolves around facilitating twice monthly delivery planning process and ensure that all materials are planned and purchased on the appropriate timelines.
• You will be responsible for executing and managing supply commitments through creation of purchase orders (POs) for procurement of Nike’s 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.
• You’ll be conducting analysis to proactively identify challenges, at the same time be able to tell a story, driving clarity for your key stakeholders through key business metric (PIFOT-Planned in Full On Time, Coverage, and Unplanned). You will be asked to represent our team on projects and support key initiatives that have an impact to our day-to-day business.
• You will be proactively driving actions to keep a healthy inventory position in the assigned business. 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. You will report and communicate to Territory/Countries and Geo x-functional teams delivery expectations, risks and opportunities.
  
  

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.