Senior Merchant, NA Marketplace – Apparel

This job posting is for 3 Sr. Merchant, NA Marketplace - Apparel roles on the North America Merchandising team.
 

We are looking for 2 Senior Merchants to lead growth as part of our newly established Marketplace Partners merchandising team. You will be responsible for managing a growing and profitable business in North America.  You will oversee both Performance and Lifestyle across multiple Fields of Play while serving the consumer focused on your Gender to build and sell in consumer-focused assortments. Key aspects for success will be collaborating with consumer teams to fuel growth, influencing account buying teams and ensuring healthy, strategic growth plans. These roles require ability to partner with key x-functional partners (Planning, Consumer Merchandising, Marketing and Sales) and strong communication and influencing skills to ensure alignment on the consumer-focused merchandising strategy tailored to key account. Building trust, relationships and a strong team culture while leading with courage through ambiguity will be critical to success in this role. 

The Foot Locker, Inc. Merchandising team is looking for 1 Apparel Merchant ready to join our team and use their skills and experiences to drive the Men’s Apparel business at Foot Locker, Inc., including the Foot Locker and Champs banners. You will own the Men’s Lifestyle and Basketball Apparel business that will sharpen your merchandising abilities through collaboration and cross-functional excellence across both internal and external partners - including consumer merchandising, planning, and brand marketing. Having a strategic vision, strong communication skills to influence a point of view, marketplace & consumer knowledge, and the ability to span multiple seasons will be critical for this role to create impact, fuel healthy growth, and drive results in this key account. 

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 their own personal 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 a understanding of retail environments.

At times working autonomously and with agility, this role is responsible for driving the consumer product offering across the different key merchandising dimensions. They will also influence the product assortment for their respective Marketplace partner while focusing on end-in-mind, as well as focusing on multi-season management of Nike’s most innovative and iconic franchises!

What you will work on

You will adapt and create consumer-centric assortment plans with an understanding of the full marketplace while delivering for a specific consumer and blending fact-based and intuitive inputs.

You will participate in seasonal reviews & assortment building and represent the voice of key marketplace partners.

You will balance multiple seasons. Your insights will contribute to future season plans and adoption by supporting Consumer 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 buyers across Nike Direct, MP Partners, and Field of Play merchants as well as cross-functional teams within the Marketplace partner team inclusive of, Planning, Sales, and Brand Marketing. Unique to this merchandising role, you will also work back with external partner buying and executive teams to land the seasonal assortment vision.

What you bring

• Bachelor's degree or higher, or combination of relevant education, experience, and training
• 4+ years experience in Footwear, Apparel, Equipment, or relevant consumer product merchandising, product creation and/or retail in a vertical, multi-brand or digital 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.
• Preparing seasonal tools to equip your marketplace partners with an understanding of seasonal priorities.
• Experience developing strong working relationships with teammates and cross-functional partners.
• Great teammate and contributor, with an attitude and excitement to learn new things.
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