Sr. Manager-Nike Value Stores Apparel & Accessories Planning NA

Strategic Planning Leader

You will report to the North America Senior Director of Nike Value Stores Planning. As part of the North America Nike Value Stores Planning leadership team, you will collaborate with partners across Merchandising Buying, Allocation, Enterprise Business Planning, Finance, and Supply Chain. You will work closely with our Geography planning teams to ensure clarity and alignment of strategy, assortment, and demand planning metrics. You will lead a diverse team of both people managers and individual contributors.

We are looking for a strategic planning leader with deep passion and expertise in retail planning and a talent for leading and developing high performing teams. This individual understands sport culture, marketplace, and consumer trends and brings a strong foundation in planning, merchandising and operations. They thrive in complex environments, create clarity from ambiguity, and drive accountability through influence. The ideal candidate is highly collaborative, skilled at building relationships across functions, and adept at balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution. They have a proven ability to align teams, enable others, and deliver results in dynamic, retail settings. Success in this role requires exceptional communication skills, analytical strength, and a commitment to fostering an inclusive, high-performing team environment.

Key skills and traits include :

• Deep expertise and passion for a stores-based direct to consumer retail business, with a strong understanding of consumer, marketplace, and cultural dynamics
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team (People Manager) through influence and ability drive alignment across the team and cross functional partners at all levels including Senior Leadership
• Proven track record in retail planning, financial planning and targeting, merchandising, inventory management, or related operational disciplines
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 10+ years of relevant experience in planning, merchandising, operations, or strategy roles

Working on this team will be rewarding, it'll be challenging, and it'll most definitely not be just another job. You'll be an ambassador of the Nike brand - everything we stand for : drive, determination, the unyielding commitment to excellence, these all will be a part of your everyday experience.

In this role, you will be responsible to guide a team of planning managers and assortment planners plus yourself as the Business Planner leader owning the topline financial plan and targeting for the Nike Value Stores Apparel and Accessories business segments. You will be responsible for both pre-season financial targeting, leading the in-season offense, and the connection between them. You and your team will partner with Enterprise Business Planning, Geo Sport Planning, Merchandising Buying, Allocation, Finance and Nike Direct Sport and Ops teams to influence and give guidance on weekly execution, monthly forecast and seasonal buys, ensuring consistency on driving the actualization of One Plan.

This role will not only own the tops down forecast and strategy but will present financial plans and report out on business results in key meetings. You will proactively report on the health of the business and facilitate sound business decisions and action plans, to managers and cross-functional team members, on a weekly basis. You will collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, create best practices, and develop systems knowledge. In addition, you will participate in a team structure that facilitates and maximizes individual and team performance, supporting and fostering an open and inclusive environment that embraces diversity, encourages accountability, and drives toward results.