Senior Merchant, Women's Running GC

BECOME A PART OF THE NIKE, INC TEAM

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.

Overview of the Job:

• The role is responsible for setting merchandising strategy, bringing end to end product insight with global and geo counterparts, as well as product sell-in to retailers. Serve GC consumers with the most relevant products to enable Nike's vision and drive sustainable growth.
• Focus on Women's Running Apparel

• Direct report to Running Merchandising Sr. Director

• Global Sports merch
• NSP/ND Merch
• SSD
• VMS
• Account sales / Sell-in & Sell-through

• Build the future of products - identify white spaces, wins & opportunities in product line and assortment.
• Translate observation to insights, with clear articulation and logic on relations to business.
• Build clustered product assortments for different retail concepts in a consumer-centric way.
• Delivers robust product sell-in to retailers, including sell-in tools preparation, product presentation & showroom sample setup, etc.
• Uncovers consumer insights & explores marketplace trends to make art/science balanced assortment decisions.
• Drives in-season product management based on thorough weekly sales analysis & consumer feedback from retail stores.
• Proactively optimize the assortment strategy, swiftly adapting to the dynamic and ever-changing marketplace.
• Coordinate cross Sport projects, process and deliverables.

• A deep understanding of products with technical apparel experience a plus
• A deep understanding of GC Consumer and marketplace
• A deep understanding of Running products, trends
• Solid Merchandising / buying experience in retail industry
• Fluent in English
• Strong retail and financial acumen
• Proficient in Office software

• Strategic thinker - articulate seasonal priorities to key counterparts with consistency and accuracy

• Highly responsible and resilient individual - excels in cross-functional communications ensuring seamless collaboration across teams to achieve common goals
• Continuously Grow and Develop with teamwork and Diversity
• Innovative problem solving & result driven
• Demonstrate strong passion for product, preferably apparel