WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Nike Direct Merchandising is part of the Nike Merchandising Function.

Our role is to win with consumers through anchoring our strategies in the Consumer X Field of Play Offense. We obsess consumer, marketplace, competition, digital and store insights to serve our consumers’ needs, while driving the business today in tandem with a long-term growth direction. This can only be done through strong cross-functional work and partnership with the below teams.

Key Cross-Functional Partnerships:

• Merchandising partners (ND/Store/Consumer)

• Planning and Allocation counterparts

• Direct Marketing Team

• Digital Platform Experience Team

We are recruiting for 2 Merchandiser II positions within Nike Direct Merchandising:

1) Women’s Lifestyle Apparel 2) Girls Apparel. These roles report to Merchandising Managers within the Direct Merchandising Teams.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a great team mate to join our teams!

In this role you must have a passion for product and an understand the consumer and how we serve them. 

As you will be leading a complexed business area, former work experience of retail buying/planning is a must for this candidate, and knowledge of assortment building/buying processes are required. You need to have a confirmed knowledge in retail acumen, strong communication skillset with a proactive approach in your daily and seasonal work. 

You need to thrive working within a dynamic environment, which will require working on multiple seasons simultaneously while managing through ad-hoc requests.  With this you need to know how to prioritise your workload and have a flexible mindset and ability, a strength in multi-tasking is required.  Within this role, the candidate is expected to present their work to x-functional stakeholders, with this presentation skills are needed.

Requirements:

• Able to demonstrate experience in / knowledge of Merchandising Fundamentals: 

  • Assortment creation& product acumen - be able to create a balance product assortment, delivering on the consumer needs at the right product/time/place/price.

  • Strong Retail and financial acumen: understanding of retail KPI’s + how to read sales data and act.

  • Consumer centric mindset & Consumer knowledge + Trend knowledge & an affiliation for sports

• Tools: Merchandising visualisation + database tools, online analytical dashboards, fluency in Office suite (Power-point and Excel focus)

• Business + Stakeholder management & influencing skills

• Strategic Thinking

• Team player

• Strong communication + presentation skills:  verbal/written

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

We are looking for someone to inspire and serve our consumers by supporting the Nike Direct merchandising team in building a top in class merchandising and product assortment for EMEA. This person is responsible for seasonal assortment creation within a respective complexed business area, creating a Nike Direct omni-channel assortment that caters to both Nike Digital and Nike stores. This role will require close collaboration/influencing with the cross-functional team.

From a day-to-day perspective, the candidate accountability/focus will be on:

• Building assortments from seasonal strategy to execution; showcase visually and reflect in assortment plan (excel and online tools); decide on product distribution and flow of product for Nike Direct

• Partner with respective merchandising counterparts to make sure we are driving a full head to toe offering for our consumers

• Business management: *Pre-season: provide clear assortment direction to planning to jointly land a seasonal buy in support of the most productive and profitable ND business whilst aligning to business strategies.  Present seasonal strategy for respective business portfolio during sign-off gates and seasonal handovers to x-functional stakeholders* In-season: with your x-functional counterparts optimize business results leveraging respective trade levers.  Trade your respective business area, attend trade meetings and leverage retail data to understand the performance of the business portfolio; read-and-react using data to drive informed decisions to optimize the business and provide input on monthly or quarterly business re-caps* Future Seasons:  Provide geo consumer insights to relevant stakeholders + influencing future line plan needs for the ND consumer.

• Stakeholder management: Support the ND merchandising team on Merchandising seasonal deliverables to ensure delivery of your merchandising plan with x-functional partners. Works closely with your merchandising leader and team to provide relevant consumer insights and product opportunities that can be integrated in future line planning.

Please note, this role is not open for relocation.