Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

The NIKE, Inc. Supply Chain team is the engine that propels product around the world. Supply Chain experts ensure that every year, almost a billion units of footwear, apparel and equipment arrive at the right place, at the right time. To ensure this complex job goes off without a hitch, Supply Chain teams work with a network of more than 50 distribution centers, thousands of accounts, and more than 100,000 retail stores worldwide — making the impossible happen every single day.

Central & South America (CaSA) is one of our key Territories in the Asia Pacific & Latin America portfolio. We provide inspiration and innovation to millions of athletes* across the region, and we play an important role in delivering Nike’s vision to life. The Demand & Supply Management function (DSM) is responsible to quantify and supply our consumers demand, while ensuring profitable growth and healthy inventories!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for an Integrated Business Planning Manager to lead our CaSA cross functional offense and drive actions to achieve healthy growth across CaSA’s portfolio.

This role will manage an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) ecosystem to facilitate business discussions, translate functional insights into stories, track performance against goals, define and align actions required to achieve goals, and elevate to Senior Leaders for fast decision making.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, in this role you will be responsible for driving a collaborative end-to-end (E2E) business management process that helps all functions to land ONE operating plan. Among several other things, this entails bringing additional clarity on business objectives, regularly monitor performance against our goals, understand trends and predict deviations that will require alignment or decisions to balance the achievement of financial goals while serving our consumers. The scope for this work goes from long range plans to the current seasonal execution at point of sale, which makes this role incumbencies wide enough to cover almost every link in the value chain.

For all of the above reasons, the candidate needs to have proven track record of critical thinking, resolving business issues as well as the outstanding ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics with the appropriate recommendations to a wide and diverse audience in several levels of the organization. You will need to understand multi-seasonal critical metrics across functions like Operations, Finance, Merchandising & Planning (both Business & Retail) to properly evaluate risks and opportunities that would need attention.

A typical day/week revolves around consuming information that circulates in the process, translate data points into valuable information, facilitate meetings to support cross-functional communication and drive accountability on action plans..

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will report into the CaSA Demand & Supply Management Director and you’ll have regular connections with APLA’s IBP Team to ensure functional alignment on the company’s vision deployment for IBP.

As many other functions in CaSA, you’ll drive a close partnership with six Distributors across Latin America to align process frameworks, deliverables in the cycle and one-off requirements tied to the business dynamic.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree or higher or Combination of relevant education, experience, and training.
• Advanced planning expertise with clear understanding of a Planning Ecosystem; including at least 5 years experience in Retail Sales / Demand, Supply / Inventory, Revenue / Margin and Operational Planning. Proven experience in Planning functions on the ground is a must.
• We are looking for a leader that is results driven, self started and capable to navigate different levels in an organization. Key to success in this role will be the ability to have an E2E understanding of the operation and outstanding communication skills to translate complex stories in a simple way.
• You’ll need the have proven experience influencing leaders into action and driving accountabilities. This requires superior interpersonal, influencing and facilitation skills with the ability to work both cross-functionally and cross-culturally, specifically fostering productive relationships between key players.
• Experience assessing and mitigating risks and liabilities that could disrupt our ability to meet market demand; strong ability to assess and quantify risks, determine scenarios, tradeoffs and recommendations with balanced incentives
• Being fluent in Spanish/Portuguese is preferred.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.