Senior Professional Retail Production jobs at Nike in China, Shanghai

Who You Are:
• Skills & Experience:
• Proven experience in project management and retail production within
agencies or brands.
• Expertise in managing complex timelines, budgets, and spacial design
deliverables.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a proven team player with leadership
capabilities.
• Persona:
• Passionate, always learning, and evolving with trends in creativity.
• Exceptionally organized, a natural problem-solver, and comfortable
under pressure
• A master collaborator who inspires and motivates direct teams and
external spacial production crew.
• Language:
• Proficient in both Chinese and English (verbal & written).

What We Work On:
• End-to-End Retail Creative Production Management:
• Manage Retail / Experience production from planning to final asset
delivery, ensuring creativity is at the forefront.
• Oversee executions across various physical and digital mediums.
• Creative Thought Partnership:
• Collaborate closely with Nike's retail/ In real life creative team to drive
the creative production process consistently.
• Network and commission work from a broad network of agencies and
creative individuals.
• Continuously seek new talents and partners to enhance creative
outputs.
• Commission and manage multiple creative partners, from renowned
agencies to emerging talents.
• Facilitate creative partner outreach, negotiations, budget management,
and contract execution.
Who You Work With:
• Partner daily with Nike's internal retail / In retail life creative team, including
designers, art directors, and creative leaders and your border production
team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Marketing Retail Brands,
Finance, Legal, BA, Procurement by project basis.

What You Bring to Nike:
• Passion for creativety, sports and culture
• A wealth of experience in project management or retail production for
agencies or brand
• Future-forward thinker with a solution-oriented mindset and entrepreneurial
spirit.
• Ability to thrive in a matrix envrioment with multiple business functions and
senior sakehoders, cutting through the noise to challnege the business
priorities and deliver the best creative
• Knowing when and how to drive solutions via speak up
• Commitment to staying up-to-date with current and future creative
technologies and innovations.
• Willingness to travel 10-20% of the time.

Key Responsibilities (include but are not limited to)

• Lead the development and synthesis of cluster mapping to establish a holistic national perspective, and generate in-depth strategic insights
• Lead cross-cluster projects to accelerate the transformation of Nike’s fleet
• Lead the involvement and communication of overall marketplace mapping guardrail
• Serve as the primary interface for the mapping team, fostering collaboration with Nike’s cross-functional partners

Qualifications & Requirements

• >= 5 year working experience

• Mandatory: >=4 working experience in top consulting firms focusing on consumer goods industry, including MBB and other top consulting firms

• Preferred: Experience in corporate strategy in consumer goods / retail company

• Bachelor’s degree or above from a top-tier university (domestic or international)

• Strong data analytical and problem-solving skills

• Passion to drive results and strong self-motivation, excellent communication skills

What you will work on

• Support and partner with the Sr. Creative Director and Design Director to create seasonal and long-term vision, strategic and tactical direction, and design continuity.

• Support a design process of clear ideation focusing on exploration of color, materiality, texture, spacing, proportion, scale and use of the environment.

• Collaborate with producers, design counterparts (both Global and Geo), internal partners (Retail Brand, City Brand, Retail Concept, etc.) and external partners to ensure feasibility of designs and functional needs are met.

• Ensure project goals and priorities align with Nike Retail Brand, City Brand and business strategies.

• Develop presentation materials that effectively communicate design concepts to all levels of leadership and partners.

• Constantly seek new and innovative ways to tell stories through graphics, styling, lighting, sculpture, photography, video, animation and more.

• Contribute to education and inspiration, sharing knowledge and exposure to current and future trends influencing the innovation of consumer experiences and technology.

• Foster team work and lead the team to complete task and meet expectation.

• You may travel 10-20% of the time.

Who You Will Work With

Under the direction of a Sr. Creative Director and a Design Director manager, and in partnership with operation and producers, and cross-functional peers, you will realize innovative, original retail and in real life experience. You will collaborate with internal and external design teams to complete multiple projects and ensure the creative intent, design results, timelines and budgets are met.

What You Bring

• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive, technically sophisticated design experience in interior design, experiential design or brand design and a demonstrated ability to apply these skills in ways that elevate brand excellence.

• Bachelors/master’s degree in graphic design, architecture, industrial design, environmental design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Adept at applying and performing design skills including concepting, ideation, drawing/sketching, typography, color theory, texture, spatial design in scale, visual presentation development and space planning layouts.

• Strong knowledge of current trends in color, graphic design, art, photography, architecture and experience design — and their application to the sport industry.

• Strong knowledge of production design, fabrication, materiality, and emerging manufacturing trends.

• Strategic thinking and adept at connecting the dots across multiple approaches and outputs.

• Proven ability to manage ambiguity and create compelling solutions when the way forward is not always clear.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to present new concepts and designs to small and large groups, including presenting to executive leaders and external partners.

• Proven ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Store level RSU driven assortment plans cross CFOP based on seasonal product strategy, Store profile, and growth expectations.
• Partner with cross functional team to ensure seasonal buy plan meeting merchandise financial plan; reflecting merchandise strategy; supporting seasonal marketing stories
• Analyze sales data, market trends, and competitive landscapes to identify assortment opportunities and risks.
• Plan cross season assortment/inventory flow (new launches, replenishment, exit strategies) to minimize markdowns and maximize full-price sell-through.
• Develop and standardize store level assortment planning tools, frameworks, and reporting metrics.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion, Business, finance or Data Analytics.
• 5+ years in merchandising, assortment planning, retail planning
• Experience in multi-channel retail (e-commerce, brick-and-mortar, wholesale).
• Strong business/ retail industry acumen (weeks of supply, sell-through analysis).
• Strong cross functional alignment and influencing skills
• Fluent in English & Mandarin (spoken & written)
• Advanced knowledge of MS office applications (Excel and PPT)

What you will work on

• Support and partner with the Sr. Creative Director and Design Director to create seasonal and long-term vision, strategic and tactical direction, and design continuity.

• Support a design process of clear ideation focusing on exploration of color, materiality, texture, spacing, proportion, scale and use of the environment.

• Collaborate with producers, design counterparts (both Global and Geo), internal partners (Retail Brand, City Brand, Retail Concept, etc.) and external partners to ensure feasibility of designs and functional needs are met.

• Ensure project goals and priorities align with Nike Retail Brand, City Brand and business strategies.

• Develop presentation materials that effectively communicate design concepts to all levels of leadership and partners.

• Constantly seek new and innovative ways to tell stories through graphics, styling, lighting, sculpture, photography, video, animation and more.

• Contribute to education and inspiration, sharing knowledge and exposure to current and future trends influencing the innovation of consumer experiences and technology.

• Foster team work and lead the team to complete task and meet expectation.

• You may travel 10-20% of the time.

Who You Will Work With

Under the direction of a Sr. Creative Director and a Design Director manager, and in partnership with operation and producers, and cross-functional peers, you will realize innovative, original retail and in real life experience. You will collaborate with internal and external design teams to complete multiple projects and ensure the creative intent, design results, timelines and budgets are met.

What You Bring

• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive, technically sophisticated design experience in interior design, experiential design or brand design and a demonstrated ability to apply these skills in ways that elevate brand excellence.

• Bachelors/master’s degree in graphic design, architecture, industrial design, environmental design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Adept at applying and performing design skills including concepting, ideation, drawing/sketching, typography, color theory, texture, spatial design in scale, visual presentation development and space planning layouts.

• Strong knowledge of current trends in color, graphic design, art, photography, architecture and experience design — and their application to the sport industry.

• Strong knowledge of production design, fabrication, materiality, and emerging manufacturing trends.

• Strategic thinking and adept at connecting the dots across multiple approaches and outputs.

• Proven ability to manage ambiguity and create compelling solutions when the way forward is not always clear.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to present new concepts and designs to small and large groups, including presenting to executive leaders and external partners.

• Proven ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes.

You will work with different brand function squads, Concept and marketplace counterparts to ensure the experiences are brought to life in a consistent way.

Reporting Line:

Director, Retail Marketing, Concept Experience, GC

Key Partnership:

• X-functional Retail marketing & Brand Creative teams including RB, VM, RP, EKIN, Store Design and Storytelling Design.
• X-functional marketplace teams including NDSS, Retail Concept, Field, Care, Account, Social Commerce, and Merch.
• Global Retail Marketing and Concept Experience counterparts

Job Responsibility:

• Drive retail marketing strategy across global and C4C retail concepts to elevate Nike distinction and capture future growth.
• Deliver E2E (briefing to execution) concept specific contents and experiences partner with other RM and Marketplace function teams.
• Drive & execute service and experience strategy that elevate and deepen consumer brand engagement, drive traffic to the store.
• Deliver scalable and sustainable “toolkits” that maintain brand standard and meet the commercial needs in all concepts .
• Execute data, insights and learnings to future concept experience strategies and briefs.

Functional Skill Required (Hard skills):

• Solves problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions
• Independently utilizes knowledge, skills, and abilities to identify areas of opportunity, resolve complex problems & navigate solutions.
• Integrates and communicates moderately complex information, sometimes to audiences who are not familiar with the subject matter.
• Is accountable for smaller projects or programs with manageable risks andresourcerequirements.
• Acts as a resource to teammates. Completes work independently with review at critical points; requires guidance only on complex issues.
• Performs work in support of marketing plans; demonstrates link between daily work andcompanymission; participates in initiatives, programs or products with moderate visibility.
• Ensures actions protect company image and limits risks

Experience Required (Soft skills):

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience.
• Creatively oriented will be essential to push outside the box thinking
• Has a passion to build ‘new’ ways of doing/thinking.
• Has innate curiosity to learn and grow, professionally.
• Is familiar with English and can write/speak fluently.

Job Accountabilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop a balanced sales plan that considers sales, margin, and inventory, ensuring the achievement of financial targets and marketplace health for Nike Wholesale business.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive NSP top door/concept growth through sell-through analysis, buy planning, assortment optimization, and in-season actions.

Job Description Details:

• Lead GC WS revenue forecasting for CSR & AOP based on marketplace capacity, working with marketplace and Finance teams to align KPIs (e.g., Nike revenue, retail sales, marketplace inventory).
• Collaborate with Account MFP and Consumer Planning teams to deliver an aligned MFP plan through consumer code gates.
• Oversee cross-season MFP planning for NSP-prioritized top doors and new concepts, partnering with Concept AP to maximize sales, full-price sell-through, and inventory balance.
• Monitor in-season performance of top doors and implement data-driven actions to address opportunities or risks.
• Work with cross-functional teams to share business insights on top doors, analyzing retail KPIs and product performance.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in related field preferred
• 7+ years with demonstrated experiences on retail business planning. WHSL business experience is preferred.
• High learning agility. Demonstrated capability on quick read & react to the dynamic marketplace environment
• Strong leadership as well as team collaboration capability. Able to work with the cross functional partners and senior management on all aspects of the business