Over de vacature

As Senior Assortment Planner, you will co-own the *EMEA Assortment Plan

• for your assigned sport categories. You will translate marketplace demand into clear assortment and inventory plans, working from both a top-down and bottom-up perspective. You will work closely with teams across *Merchandising, Direct-to-Consumer, Wholesale, Supply & Inventory Management and Supply Planning

• to ensure the right products are available in the right quantities across the marketplace.Your main responsibilities will include:

• Managing *multi-season assortment plans

• across sports, franchises/product families and individual styles/colours.

• Translating assortment plans into a clear *demand signal

• for Supply Planning and Sourcing.

• Owning *Open-To-Buy (OTB)

• plans and validating these against rolling *Stock & Sales Plans (SSP)

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• Balancing and optimising *sales, margin, inventory levels and product health

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• Monitoring key franchises and product families and aligning plans with global targets.
• Managing product allocations where production capacity or available inventory is constrained.
• Developing and validating forecasts using *historical data, statistical forecasting, marketplace insights and commercial targets

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• Supporting responsive and continuously available product plans across multiple seasons, including adjusting forecasts based on in-season performance.
• Partnering with Merchandising, Sales, Direct-to-Consumer and Supply & Inventory teams to optimise important seasonal, marketplace and sporting moments.
• Analysing demand patterns, sell-through and marketplace performance to identify risks and opportunities.
• Independently managing planning activities, priorities and deliverables while ensuring stakeholders remain aligned.

Requirements

You are an analytical planner who is comfortable working with large amounts of commercial and product data, but you are equally capable of turning those insights into recommendations and influencing stakeholders. You understand that a strong assortment plan is not simply about forecasting demand — it requires balancing *consumer demand, product strategy, inventory and financial performance

• .Ideally, you bring: - A Bachelor’s degree in *Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Economics or a related field

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• Around 3**+ years of relevant professional experience*

• in assortment planning, merchandise planning, demand planning or a closely related area.

• Strong experience working across *financial, product and inventory planning

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• Experience managing assortments or forecasts across *multiple seasons and/or sales channels

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• A good understanding of *Open-To-Buy (OTB), inventory planning, sales forecasting and stock management

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• Strong analytical skills and confidence using data to build fact-based plans and recommendations.
• Experience with statistical forecasting or data-driven planning methodologies.
• An end-to-end planning mindset and the ability to understand how assortment decisions affect the wider marketplace and supply chain.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• The ability to work independently, set priorities and move projects forward with limited guidance.
• A collaborative, adaptable and solution-oriented mindset.

Please note that only candidates who are currently based within commuting distance of Hilversum will be considered for this position. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship. #

Benefits

Contract via *Undutchables

• and competitive secondary benefits. - Est. Start date: ASAP

• Est. End Date: 28 February, 2027

*Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.

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Over de vacature

As a Senior Assortment Planner for Nike based in Hilversum, you will be a vital part of the EMEA Sport Planning team. In this full-time role, you will co-own the One EMEA Assortment Plan by Sport and Marketplace. Working within a close team of six planners, you will utilize advanced forecasting techniques and the SEP planning system to anticipate consumer demand for sports like basketball, golf, tennis and skateboarding, ultimately contributing to NIKE's global goals and customer profitability.

what we offer

• €27-€34 gross based on experience
• 40 hours per week
• temporary assignment until February 28, 2027
• Nike EHQ (Hilversum)

who are you
Are you ready to shape the future of sports planning and keep our global marketplace healthy? We are looking for an agile, independent planner who thrives in a dynamic environment and is always ready for whatever comes their way!

• Experienced planner: You bring solid experience in assortment planning, working seamlessly across financial, product and inventory planning.
• Growth-oriented: You have a growth mindset and are able to leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop a fact-based plan.
• End-to-End thinker: You approach planning end-to-end across all marketplace channels and multi-seasons, grounded in total marketplace health.
• Independent communicator: You are able to work independently, while maintaining strong communication, problem-solving and collaboration skills.
• Flexible & Agile: You are ready to embrace and drive change, easily adapting to manage multiple categories at once.

what will you do
In your day-to-day work, you will build strong partnerships with merchandising, marketplace planning and supply & inventory management to create a strategic plan grounded in profitability, productivity and sport-centric offerings.

• Manage sport multi-season assortment plans from top-down and bottom-up angles and give a clear demand signal to supply planning and ultimately sourcing.
• Manage key franchise/product family health aligning to global franchise health targets and maintain a pull market.
• Define and manage OTB allocations of products which are constrained for production and/or demand capacity.
• Drive responsive/always available plans for season 1-6, which includes proposing validated analytical forecasts to MPUs, capturing MPU feedback and completing the forecast whilst optimizing revenue and inventory.
• Independently drive project activities on a day-to-day basis and prioritize workload and deliverables within the project.

where will you work
You will be based at Nike's inspiring European Headquarters (EHQ) in Hilversum, a dynamic campus that reflects the values of the brand. Nike offers a hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 days from home).

• Access to the gym facilities on campus.
• Commuting allowance of € 0,23 per km.
• 25 vacation days if you work 40 hours per week a full year.
• Diverse team.
• Work from home allowance of €5 per day on days you are working from home.
• 8.33% holiday allowance.

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