NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and build. Its culture thrives by accepting diversity and exciting creativity. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and innovators. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to an exciting and constantly evolving game!

Partner Merchandising is part of the Merchandising Function. Our role is to win with consumers through anchoring our strategies in the Consumer X Field of Play Offense, creating differentiated retail and marketplace experiences.

We obsess consumer, marketplace, competition, and partner insights to serve our consumers’ needs and our business today whilst taking a pivotal role in serving their future needs and improving our future capacity. This can be only be done through the strong cross functional work and partnership with the Consumer Teams and wider Partner Organization.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for two Senior Managers, owning the newly crafted Football and Kid’s CFOP Partner Merch team to represent the consumer insights, trends and capacity for a group of aggregated partners within the Marketplace CFOP. These roles will be the voice of the consumer, product and story telling for this subset of partners in order for us to win with the end in mind and land the CFOP strategy. They are complex roles, working with real time insights to react to short term opportunities, as well as input into the longer term line planning for future consumer needs. These roles will require a daring ‘Just do it’ demeanor to bring the mission and vision to life.

The candidate needs to thrive working within a complex environment and with multiple partners, consumers and countries. The candidate needs to be confident in working through ambiguity, especially in the early stages of the CFOP Teams as we start to craft and define the newly built roles and teams. As a result the candidate will need to be a phenomenal teammate, have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to effectively prioritize inline with the short and long term priorities.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You’ll be working with multiple functions and collaborators to land the CFOP strategy with the subset of Partners. You will work with your direct CFOP team to represent the entire marketplace, joining forces on key tasks as Line Planning, Hind sighting, Trend and Insights and improving the CFOP strategy across the entire marketplace. You will develop a team of partner merchants who will report into you.

A typical season will focus on advising assortment capacity for Gender / Product Engine that advises our Lead, Play, Embrace model to influence future line planning. You will translate the Geo lead assortments frameworks into consumer right account assortments. You’ll be working with sales, planning and marketing and the account to land the go to market strategy. No two days will be the same, with a constant need to read & react to real time consumer and marketplace insights to improve in season and short term opportunities.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will be working with multiple collaborators in both the NMP and Geo Consumer teams in completing the football or kids strategy. You will be an integral part of the Partner CFOP Squad working cross functionally with marketing, sales and planning.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Strategic visioning skills
• Consistent record in Business management
• Extensive Merchandising, Buying and or Sales experience, demonstrating a high level of business, retail and merchandising competence.
• A consumerist attitude with strong product knowledge and with a sharp eye for product. You will bring a clear understanding of the total EMEA marketplace, from bricks and mortar to online retail.
• Account facing experience, with a consistent record of delivering results and driving clear & distinct strategies both externally and internally.
• Excel in story telling and product expertise
• Team leadership skills
• An innovative future thinking attitude, always eager to try, test and new strategies.
• Positive and flexible attitude, able to adapt within a fast-changing & dynamic environment.
• A confirmed ability to influence optimally and confident communication

PLEASE NOTE, RELOCATION IS NOT OFFERED FOR THIS POSITION.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, a casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world!

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.