**SENIOR SUPPLY & INVENTORY PLANNER** **NA DSM - Supply and Inventory Planning** **WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR** We’re looking for a North America (NA) Senior Supply & Inventory Planner, who will support E2E Supply & Inventory Planning by a specific consumer segment. This role will support and participate in the planning execution, serving as the planning team’s primary point of contact for all inventory planning needs. This candidate will ensure that products are planned, evaluate risks and opportunities, escalate 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 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 and E2E inventory health. **WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON** A typical day/week revolves around facilitating twice/month delivery planning process and ensure that materials are planned & purchased on the appropriate timelines under Demand Supply Management (DSM) function while supporting the marketplace supply strategy supporting global inventory health targets. 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 thru key business metrics. You will be asked to be the subject matter expert (SME) on projects and support key initiatives that have an impact to our day-to-day business. You will proactively drive actions to keep a healthy inventory position in the assigned business. You will leverage multiple reports and dashboards to review key metrics, escalate any issues that will cause unfulfilled demand and/or a delay to the expected timelines. You will report and communicate to consumer planning teams delivery expectations, solutions to risks and opportunities and driving inventory health/productivity. **WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH** You will report into the Supply & Inventory Planning Manager or Director, working closely with Consumer teams and Inventory Operations team to ensure your inventory ownership supports Nike, Inc. E2E targets. You will also work closely with DSM counterparts, Marketplace Supply Chain, Merchandising, Brand and Consumer Fields of Play leadership within the geography as well as Global Supply and Manufacturing Partners. **WHAT YOU BRING** + Minimum of 5 years 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 + Agility to shift between strategic to tactical and operational levels of thinking and working to develop and deploy strategies + 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 + Strong analytical skills, finding relevant information within large data sets and creating high level storytelling + Strong knowledge of Excel (pivot tables, formulas, macros) + Prior SAP ERP experience preferred + 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 + Curiosity and the drive to improve processes and tools 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. 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