Lead Assortment Planner - EMEA

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

This role sits within the EMEA Sport Planning team, focused on Nike Basketball & Kobe. The Lead Assortment Planner co-owns the One EMEA Assortment Plan with Marketplace Planning and partners closely with Merchandising, Marketplace Planning, Business Planning, Global Planning, and Supply & Inventory Management to shape profitable, productive, sport-led seasonal plans that support Nike Inc. goals.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Advanced experience in assortment planning across financial, product, and inventory planning.

• Growth mindset with the ability to leverage forecasting, data science, and new ways of working to build fact-based plans.

• End-to-end planning mindset across marketplace channels and multi-season horizons, grounded in total marketplace health.

• Ability to work independently and drive priorities forward with limited guidance. Strong communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

CORE BEHAVIOURS

• Wins With Consumers

• Thinks Strategically

• Embraces and Drives Change

• Fosters Effective Teamwork

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Lead, drive and oversee sport multi-season assortment plans from top-down and bottom-up angles (Sports, Franchise/Product Family, Style-color) and give a clear demand signal to Supply Planning and ultimately Sourcing.

• Own Open-To-Buy (OTB) plans and validate those by multi-season rolling Stock & Sales Plans (SSP) to optimize Sales, Margin, Inventory & Product Health.

• Lead key Franchise/Product Family health aligning to global Franchise health targets and maintain a pull market.

• Define OTB allocations of products which are constrained for production and/or demand capacity.

• Influence and align with cross-functional partners in Merchandising, Nike Direct, Sales and S&IM to optimize key Sport and Marketplace seasonal and energy moments.

• Lead projects independently by setting project direction, defining scope and proactively prioritizing across wider work and teams.

• Strengthen to the broader cross sports planning and functional teams in building a culture of inclusion, engagement, empowerment, and continuous improvement of process and planning capabilities

Relocation support is not provided for this role. Deadline to apply - 10th August 2026