Senior Merchant, Global Merchandising

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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 create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

This posting is for 7 positions within the Global Merchandising function. You will be considered for all of the following positions:

Senior Merchant, Kids Performance Apparel – There are two positions available, one supporting Kids Performance Tops and one supporting Kids Performance Shorts. In these roles, you will have the opportunity to represent our Kids Performance Apparel business across a diverse set of geographies. Performance apparel is a key enabler for Nike's future growth, and this role will be a critical driver, managing partnership with cross functional and cross consumer partners. Enabling this, it will be important to collaborate, simplify and adapt to ever evolving consumer and business landscape.

Senior Merchant, Men’s Basketball Merchandising – There are two positions available, one supporting Men’s Basketball Footwear and the other position supporting Men’s Basketball Apparel. Our vision is to be a place where diverse, motivated people want to grow, to do their best work and support each other.

Senior Merchant, Kids Performance, Global Footwear – In this role, you will have the opportunity to represent our Global Football footwear business across a diverse set of geographies. Football is a dynamic business, relying on partnership with cross functional and cross consumer partners while also adapting to changes in the landscape of the sport. In order to do this, it’ll be important to collaborate and simplify, while also adapting to change as the business moves quickly.

Senior Merchant, Kids Lifestyle Merchandising, Tees – In this role, you will be working on the Kids Lifestyle Tee business. In this exciting and dynamic position, constant communication and collaboration will be required to advise upstream and downstream partners of evolving business needs and decisions. As a Kids Lifestyle Tee Sr. Merchant, it will be critical that you stay connected to your adult counterparts to understand the trend of the adult business and how it might apply to our Kids consumer.

Senior Merchant, Mens NSW Lifestyle Apparel –In this role, you will manage the Global Men’s Nike Sportswear Apparel Graphic Tees business. You will build consumer-led Product Line-Plans and Assortments that deliver on business expectations by using marketplace insights, retail savvy, and collaboration with Geographic and cross-functional partners.

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. 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 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.

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 qu