Lead Assortment Planning Manager, Digital Basketball Planning GC

Overview of the Job: Optimize consumer demand & supply to serve consumer and drive profitable growth and inventory productivity for NDDC.Build seasonal product investment plan & strategies for retail concepts that tie to the financial targets & brand vision. Play a critical role in cross-function conversations to ensure the team adapt to retail speed & support Nike Strategy.Key Partnership:Digital MerchNDDC business teamNDDC BPJob Responsibility:Pre-season:Build strategic framework of seasonal product investment plan; Lead digital buy strategy by reconciling topline financials, brand roadmap, consumer moments, membership plan with bottom up investmentAlign plan with input and collaboration from key stakeholders including Merchandising and Business TeamPartner with Supply Planning team to secure capacity & plan inventory flowIn-season:Weekly analyze and recap marketplace performance Recommend key actions to cross function partners to optimize businessPost-season:Analyze seasonal topline financials and product performance including sell-through, color performance, and SKU productivityProvide insights and recommendations to key stakeholders for future season planningRecap performance of key retail moments to provide insights for future planningFunctional Skill Required (Hard skills):Buying, Planning, Assortment Planning experience with apparel / footwear in Digital preferred Comprehensive understanding of retail mathExperience in developing an understanding of consumers, competitors, and retail trendsAbility to interpret financial sales data to make decisions and recommendations that impact the businessAdvanced knowledge of MS office applications; proficiency in ExcelProduct KnowledgeFluent in Chinese & EnglishBachelor degree or aboveExperience Required (Soft skills):Keep Open and CuriousHigh profile x-functional communicationVisionary and StrategicStrong team player and management on all aspects of the business Learning agility