Merchant II, Nike Global - Lifestyle, Brand Initiatives, Mens Sport, Womens Running

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This posting is for 5 positions within the Global Merchandising function. 

Merchant II, Mens Sports: This role works across footwear and apparel with a consumerist approach to support line planning and assortment creation for Men’s Sports with a focus on Golf, Tennis, American Football, and Field Sports. We are looking for an agile, flexible, and pro-active teammate to support across numerous projects and businesses to drive the growth of Men’s Sports. As a Merchant II, creating cross-functional partnerships and the ability to balance numerous tasks will be required to be successful in this role. Passion for one (or more) of the above sports is ideal, but not required.

Merchant II, Kids Lifestyle: In this Kids Lifestyle role, you will be an integral part of a footwear and apparel product merchandising team. To be successful, you will need to understand our Kids consumer, as well as stay connected to your adult partners. You'll work cross-functionally, balancing multiple tasks, prioritizing based upon the business needs. This role operates in a fast-paced, dynamic environment supporting the growth of the Kids Lifestyle business. Above all else, creating strong partnerships and relationships will be critical to the success of role.

Merchant II, Womens Lifestyle: We are looking for an optimistic and solution driven Merchant II who is focused on driving the future of Women's Lifestyle Apparel. You'll manage multiple stakeholders in a highly dynamic environment and work within multiple seasons, against numerous deadlines. Well-developed data and analytics skills, as well as being able to create strong partnership and relationships with different stockholders will be key to success in this role. Lastly, this Merchant II will be part of an incredible agile team that brings high levels of energy every day. 

Merchant II, Womens Running: We are seeking a Merchant who is passionate about driving the future of Nike Womens Running Apparel and Footwear. With a passion for Running and our consumer, this person will be able to handle multiple stakeholder relationships, have well developed planning and organization skills, and hold the capability to work within multiple seasons, against numerous deadlines. Supporting the creation of line plans and assortments, this Merchant will be hands on in visualizing assortments both digitally and physically, whilst maintaining and updating data and tools, to ensure accuracy, and optimize our impact.

Merchant II, Brand Initiatives: This Merchant II position will support the team in driving merchandising excellence against brand initiatives across Consumer and Field of Play to enable Consumer Merchandising teams to deliver on the end to end consumer vision. This role will support many projects, with differing content & scope, across varying brand initiatives. This Merchant II will be a part of an incredibly agile team that brings the most critical brand initiatives & sport moments to life for Nike brand.

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. 

We are looking for curious, energetic, and coachable merchants. You have demonstrated an awareness and understanding of the consumer and the dynamics of the marketplace. You have shown a passion to learn, make mistakes, and grow. You have an entrepreneurial spirit and excited to take on new concepts and ideas.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will enable the strategizing, building, and managing of global 3-year line plans and product journeys cross-functionally.

A consistent part of your day-to-day responsibilities will be the detailed management, maintenance and communication of all seasonal tools and assortments. Enabling this effort will be the development of key relationships among cross-functional teammates, comfort with research and analysis, along with a genuine curiosity and commitment to learn and evolve.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You’ll partner with several cross-functi