LEAD Assortment Planner, Indonesia

The Lead Assortment Planner for SEA&I Indonesia works closely with stakeholders across Business Planning, Sales, Marketing, and Merchandising to determine optimal style depth, maintain franchise health, and achieve financial and retail goals. The role leads pre-, in-, and post-season assortment planning reviews, shares consumer-led insights, and collaborates with the Assortment Planning community on projects and deliverables within the Nike Direct Planning team and the wider SEA&I Planning Team. The planner also works with Business Planner, Nike Direct Sales, Merchandising, and Marketing teams to set SKU count targets and ensure plans reconcile with the top-line financial plan to drive profitable and sustainable growth.

• Lead pre-, in-, and post-season assortment planning reviews and share consumer-led insights to shape future planning.
• Determine SKU count targets based on retail strategies and opportunities in collaboration with Business Planner, Nike Direct Sales, Merchandising, and Marketing teams.
• Ensure assortment plans reconcile with the top-line financial plan to maximize consumer demand and drive profitable and sustainable growth.
• Create Open to Buy (OTB) investment plans by Franchise, Classification, and Gender, incorporating seasonal marketing, marketplace initiatives, key consumer moments, franchise health guidance, and fleet movements.
• Work with Sales, Merchandising, and Sports Marketplace teams to forecast and manage allocations for Capacity Constrained, Intentionally Constrained, and High-Heat/Launch Products.
• Provide ongoing in-season recaps and analysis, identifying best and slow sellers and comparing against forecast and prior year.
• Monitor performance of key items and seasonal stories, taking actions to maximize revenue, margin, franchise health, and inventory productivity, and use learnings to shape future buy recommendations.
• Recap assortment performance post-season, including weekly sell-through, colour performance, and SKU productivity.
• Analyse and report performance of marketing and seasonal stories, proactively providing insights for future planning.
• Drive and lead selected projects, assignments, and deliverables within the Assortment Planning community.

• Comprehensive understanding of retail metrics, buying, forecasting, account management, and how they are used across functions to deliver profitable and sustainable growth.
• Strong ability to interpret sales data to make decisions and recommendations that impact the business.
• Commercial acumen and ability to influence internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills.
• Competencies: think strategically, cultivate innovation, foster effective teamwork, value differences, act with courage, achieve results, and embrace and drive change.
• Degree (e.g., Bachelor's) in Business or related field with minimum 6 years' relevant retail experience in merchandise assortment planning, business, or demand supply planning.
• Strong ability to interpret and connect the dots from sell-in, sell-through to inventory and business implications, make recommendations, negotiate and influence decision making that will drive profitable and sustainable growth for Nike
• Including ability to build and understand Stock and Sales Plan (SSP), determine optimal style depth plans, and manage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Strong cross-team collaboration, inspires high levels of engagement, trust and collaboration across a matrix environment with diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong influencing skills, ability to connect the dots, champion complex projects both cross-functionally and vertically within the organisation.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications; proficiency in advanced Excel including creating spreadsheets, complex formulas, pivot tables, etc.

• Experience with planning software/tools and merchandise management systems.