Nike Internship: Demand, Supply Chain, and Business Planning
Nike Internship Opportunities: Demand, Supply Chain, and Business Planning
Multiple positions available
Demand Planning
Demand planning involves analyzing historical data, market trends, and customer insights to forecast consumer demand for Nike products. As a demand planning intern, you would be responsible for gathering and analyzing data, collaborating with cross-functional teams such as sales, marketing, and operations, and using statistical models to predict future demand. Your goal would be to ensure that Nike has the right quantity of products available at the right time and in the right locations to meet customer demand.
Supply and Inventory Planning
Supply and inventory planning focuses on managing the availability and flow of Nike’s products throughout the supply chain. As an intern in this role, you would work closely with suppliers, logistics teams, and manufacturing units to optimize inventory levels, track product shipments, and identify potential bottlenecks or supply chain risks. You would also collaborate with demand planning teams to align supply with anticipated demand, ensuring that Nike can effectively fulfill customer orders while minimizing excess inventory and stockouts.
Business Planning
Business planning involves developing strategic plans and initiatives to drive the overall success of Nike’s business operations. As a business planning intern, you would support the development and execution of business strategies by conducting market research, analyzing financial data, and identifying growth opportunities. You may assist in creating business models, conducting competitor analysis, and assessing the feasibility of new initiatives. Additionally, you would work with cross-functional teams to develop budgets, track key performance indicators, and contribute to decision-making processes.
Depending on the position you are linked to, the tasks and responsibilities may include:
- Work on projects in advanced forecasting techniques (statistics, correlations, analysis, analytics)
- Support in process and reporting (forecast accuracy and other reports)
- Help to increase the data accuracy for planning and reporting purposes
- Support the Planning team in their re-occurring tasks, such as reporting, data validation and preparation for meetings
- Deep dive into metrics, benchmarking and KPIs
- Build, check and update different templates and presentations
- Initiate, lead and execute own projects
- Support in ad hoc requests and attend all team meetings
- Processing, mapping, and identifying potential improvements on data integrity
- Connecting to different teams, such as Finance, Merchandising and Sales is crucial in these positions
- Improve hard skills and knowledge on various professional analytics, reporting, planning and communication tools (for example, Alteryx, Tableau, R, SAP, advanced Excel, Cognos, SQL, etc)
What You Bring
- Bachelor Entrepreneurship & Business Innovation and a minor in AI & Computer programming.
- Strong research, technical and analytical skills, and excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office programs
- Strong project management skills and ability to bridge between business and technology.
- Proactive, energetic attitude with a passion for e-commerce, retail, sport, fashion and interested to link these with technology.
- Affinity with e-commerce platforms and applications and understanding of their business models
- Eagerness to be an active part of the team, ability to take ownership and curious to learn new things
- Pro-active, sense of responsibility and can work independently
- Accurate, strong analytical skills and an eye for detail
- Teammate, self-motivated, flexible, and open to change
- A global attitude and ideally a passion for sport