Senior Merchant

The North America Brand Merchandising team is looking for a Senior Merchant to support the Footwear and Apparel businesses.  This role will leverage their skills in collaboration through multi-faceted partnerships with multiple functions (Global Merchandising, Geo Consumer Merchandising, Geo Product Creation, Marketplace partners, and Planning). You will be part of an agile team that brings the most critical North America brand initiatives and sport moments (e.g., Olympics) to life through Footwear or Apparel product merchandising. You will work across Consumer and Field of Play Merchandising teams to enable an integrated, cohesive execution of brand initiatives and sport moments. This role requires an agile, enterprise mindset and the ability to partner across key collaborators (Product, Planning, Consumer Merchandising). Strong communication and analytical thinking skills will be critical for these roles

 

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will work closely with fellow merchants and cross-functional teams within global  and geo merchandising;  Planning, Allocation, and Brand Marketing. We also work with finance, operations and the insights/analytics teams; relying on business reporting for your area which includes quantitative and qualitative metrics on sales, inventory and consumer behaviors.

 

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

For Nike merchants, everything begins and ends with the consumer! We are looking for a consumerist with an affinity for product who enjoys the energy of moving at the pace of retail and our consumer. A successful Senior Merchant will contribute to an inclusive, positive, and progressive team dynamic. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

This candidate should possess an understanding of the Nike consumer and marketplace landscapes. The candidate should possess solid retail acumen and analytical skills, and an understanding of retail environments.

At times working autonomously, agile, and solution-oriented, this role is responsible for driving the consumer product offering across the different merchandising dimensions and across the Consumer and FOP offense. They will also influence the product offering End to End (from insights to adoption) as well as focusing on multi-season management of Nike’s most innovative franchises!

What you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• 4+ years experience in Footwear, Apparel, Equipment, or relevant consumer product merchandising, product creation and/or retail in a vertical, multi-brand or digital environment
• Strong command of common retail and/or digital metrics such as sell-through, margin, full price realization, weeks of supply, etc.
• Proven ability to translate consumer, sales, trend, and marketplace insights into in-season and long-term breakthrough strategies
• Preparing seasonal tools to equip your marketplace partners with an understanding of seasonal priorities
• Experience developing strong working relationships with teammates and cross-functional partners
• Great teammate and contributor, with an attitude and excitement to learn new things
• Strong communication skills and comfort navigating a cross-functional matrix with an emphasis on influencing skills
• Attention to detail, understanding the importance of consistency

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will build consumer-centric assortment plans with an understanding of the full marketplace, blending fact-based and intuitive inputs. You will participate in seasonal reviews & assortment building in partnership with marketplace account-focused merchants.

You will balance multiple seasons. Your insights will contribute to future season plans and adoption by supporting Gender Merchandising Leadership and upstream partnership within Global Merchandising. You will manage your areas of assortment planning in depth during the seasonal process and gather consumer trends and marketplace insights from in-market seasons.

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