Nicole Sudyka: Demand Planner in los angeles, CA

Collaborate with Sales, e-Commerce, Retail, Finance and Supply Planning partners to adjust forecast throughout the season to improve accuracy of orders and fulfillment to customer • Analyze trends and create seasonal forecast for wholesale accounts for 500+ SKUs per season through data analysis to ensure best product and size mix for in-season at-once orders • Participate in monthly and seasonal product adoption events, sales forecast meetings, & S&OP meetings • Drive Demand Reviews and create content for meetings

Participate in cross functional meetings and consumer code gates with merchandising and finance • Compile Data to create weekly sales reports for cross functional teams

• Created, managed and maintained seasonal long range demand plan across Women's (9.2 Million/units a season) and Young Athletes (4.2 Million/Units a season) for apparel and footwear. 41% of factory store revenue. • Partnered closely with key stakeholders on long range rebuy forecast sharing insights into plan drivers, growth assumptions, risk and opportunities. • Drove cross functional collaboration between key stakeholders, such as Business Planners, Global Merch, Global DP, and Finance • Identified risk and opportunities in globally directed plans and geo plans through Hindsight and Buy Recon • Created tracking tool to track long range demand plan to bookings to analyze variance in forecasting

Senior Admin • Lead internal Nike website content uploading for the Training Team in 26 languages • Co-implemented a tracking process for all Training Team content

Coordinated with internal and external teams to fulfill contractual obligations between clients and licensees regarding compliance, financial reporting, and product approval • Maintained automated licensing database system (Dependable Rights Manager) for contract management, product approvals and finances in reference to over 250 licenses, and continually inputting and managing the system • Assisted in the product development process by tracking product status; maintain constant communication between parties, and providing feedback on products samples from brief to product launch. • Managed and processed over 25 booking reports for the Licensing Department.

Licensing Coordinator • Managed forecast schedules, quarterly Royalty Reports and Sales Forecast that were delivered to licensors • Maintained records of all products archives and sample requests to ensure compliance of timeframes • Coordinated approvals and owning relationship with licensor for the new product ideation process • Created UPC codes for internal use and customers and complied purchase orders • Managed accounts such as Marvel, DC comics, Dr. Who, Adventure Time, Star Wars, and Sons of Anarchy