For Nike merchants, everything begins and ends with the consumer! We are looking for a consumerist with an affinity for sport performance product who enjoys the energy of moving in concert with the high school sport and college sport calendar 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.

As the Senior Merchant, Nike Team Apparel, you will focus on a range of varsity sports across mens, womens and kids apparel. You will obsess the market landscape competitively and audit our offering to enable success in your classifications of ownership. You will partner closely with geos to gain insights and be able to translate into succinct lineplans and global assortments. You will partner with product line management to ensure needs are covered with a distinctly Nike point of view. You will hold yourself accountable to the business and ultimately serve the consumer at the pace of the Team Marketplace.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH 

You will work closely with global product management and and cross-functional teams within global and geo Merchandising, Planning, Sports Marketing, and Digital Team. 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 

This candidate should possess an understanding of the Nike consumer and marketplace landscapes. The candidate should possess strong affinity for competition sport, retail acumen and analytical skills, and an understanding of organized team sports environments inclusive of coach, athlete, equipment management and seasonal sport moments higly focused on the High School competition calendars.

At times working autonomously, agile, and solution-oriented, this role is responsible for driving the consumer product offering across the different merchandising dimensions. 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!

• Bachelor's degree or higher, or combination of relevant education, experience, and training
• 4+ years’ experience in Apparel,  Footwear & Equipment, or relevant consumer product merchandising, product creation and/or retail in a multi-brand 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  .
• 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 teams.

You will balance multiple seasons and geographical needs. 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.