Visual Merchandising & Styling Specialist H/f - Alternance jobs at Nike in France

As a
Sales Associateyou will be responsible for driving the selling efforts and customer relationships in Converse stores through excelling in customer service and selling techniques, while supporting merchandising and product flow.

• Create a fun, energetic environment for our customer.
• Knowledge of and contribution to daily sales and KPI targets
• Consistently practice great customer service through storytelling
• Consistently perform to operational and merchandising standards
• Partner with teammates on tasks, processes, merchandising and product flow opportunities
• Ensure basic understanding of footwear, apparel and accessories
• Support superior standards around store cleanliness and store safety
• Acts in accordance with store policies and procedures at all times.
• Ability to work flexible hours, evenings, weekends and holidays as needed

Qualifications - External

• 1-2 years of retail experience
• Must be able to perform all retail floor functions including standing for extended periods, climb ladders, stock/retrieve/ merchandise, and unload shipments
• Must be able to communicate (written and verbal) clearly with employees and customers
• Must perform basic retail math and have basic computer skills.

What you bring:
Join the NIKE, Inc. team! As a Coach, you will be responsible for delivering exceptional consumer service and ensuring a premium brand experience for our consumers. You will coordinate, coach, and motivate the employees in your department while maintaining an excellent work atmosphere. You will support
the management of the daily business in your area to achieve sales targets, including digital services, visual merchandising, sales floor, and promotional campaigns. You will identify and solve problems in partnership with your store leadership and be a brand ambassador for NIKE’s initiatives. You will also

COMMERCIAL
• Leading a team who can deliver efficient receiving of product, inventory accuracy to visual presentation standards
• Ensuring the smooth process of all inventories warranting our sales floor is always full, presentable and achieve brand standards
• Working alongside department leads who will oversee the individual components (product receiving and visual presentation) whilst you will be responsible for the overall product journey in store
• Being responsible for monthly initiative launches
• Using our reporting tools to make the best commercial decisions
• Achieving accurate inventory to fulfill digital orders

ATHLETE EXPERIENCE
• Ensuring the team is equipped to deliver the highest quality athlete experience (Purpose)
• Leading team Engagement on NIKE Community Ambassador activities
• Partnering with senior store leadership, you will oversee the hiring processes including onboarding
• Being responsible for store scheduling
• Working collaboratively with store team to implement & maintain a positive NIKE culture

CONSUMER EXPERIENCE
• Leading by example and the delivery of our sales floor service and bring the consumer journey to life
• Ensuring the team is equipped with brand knowledge regarding all aspects consumer service including digital service enablers
• Completing specific training and share completion with athlete services
• Using data and analytics to provide insights and partner to achieve continuous improvement with senior store leadership

What you get:
• One of the best compensation and benefits packages in the industry
• Opportunity for quarterly performance-based bonus
• A supportive team that values Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• A career at a company at the forefront of the sports and fashion industry
• Generous online and in-store employee discounts and a brand-new NIKE outfit for you to sport with your teammates on the sales floor

Qualifications:
• Advanced customer service skills with demonstrated ability in leading a shop floor (or department) team in creating a unique customer experience
• Ability to coach and develop a strong team
• Effective communicator, brand ambassador, and innovative leader
• Demonstrated ability to apply product sales techniques
• Flexible with scheduling and available to work retail hours which may include day, evening, weekends, and/or holidays, based on department and store/company needs

** Relocation is not offered for this role.

Based in Paris,you will be part of the

Like a starting five on the court, you’ll team up with four other top creatives (designer, social specialist, producer and narrative) - each bringing their own strengths - to craft game-changing content that captures the energy of sport and the soul of Paris.
You, a brilliant writer and strategic thinker will report directly into the Senior Manager, Digital Creative Studio, Paris.

You'll also work very closely with other teams across our Paris/France marketing

organisation to ensure your concepts answers their brief. For this, you will need to clearly communicate your ideas to various internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership.

You’ll actively work across the Brand Creative network often collaborating with Global & EMEA teammates. Each project will also give you the chance to work with a broad spectrum of creative agencies and individuals, over time this will allow you to build a great creative network and be exposed to a wider range of creative practices and process.

You are a brilliant copywriter and strategic thinker with an obsession for crafting compelling stories and ideas, you’ll be comfortable writing long form copy, captions, content scripts and campaign lines.As a creative keen to leverage that passion to reimagine the future of sport and make athletes’ dreams real, you will constantly be looking for creating, and sharing innovative, social first ideas, concepts and copy.

You will be open minded, forward thinking, and a willing collaborator, centered on creating best in class work.

Essential requirements:

• Experience in a corporate or agency environment, preferably as a strategist/copywriter for a major retailer, e-commerce company or digital communications agency.
• Experience writing consumer-facing, creative, compelling marketing content, including digital communications.
• Expert command of the English languages (including spelling, grammar and punctuation).
• Ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes.
• A clear passion for and understanding of Paris sport & youth culture.
• Proven experience collaborating effectively with multiple functions, both within and outside of the creative discipline.
  

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

The purpose of the Brand Creative Digital Studio is to fuel our wider Nike ecosystem with brilliant creative. You will be working on marketing and creative briefs that deliver against our Nike offense. With a focus on powering our @NikeParis social and digital ecosystem, you’ll also work with our EMEA and Global partners to fuel them with industry leading ideas and stories.

Your copy will be read by millions of consumers and athletes across the City & EMEA geo, so it will need to align with the Nike Brand Voice, in-house style guides and seasonal directives.

• You will primarily obsess our @nikeParis channel, writing copy that brings our Nike offense to life through a Paris youth culture & sport lens.
  
• Depending on Paris France marketing plans you may step in to craft copy other key marketing output, including city moment campaigns such as product launches, partnerships and community opportunities or pinnacle seasonal work like the Euros, World Cup, Champions League.
  
• With the support of the Senior Manager you’ll be the one ensuring we speak with an authentic Nike Voice to our consumer in all communications. You'll communicate and present copy to team leaders. You'll actively gain knowledge and experience regarding Nike's philosophy, products and trends, as well as the consumer and overall marketplace culture.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and analytics solutions. As a Lead Data Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring that our data products are robust and capable of supporting our Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• An experienced data engineer with 6+ years in data engineering and at least 2 years in technical leadership roles.

• Deep hands-on expertise with Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Delta Lake, and Apache Airflow (or similar workflow management tools).

• Expert in SQL and Spark optimization techniques.

• Strong command of Medallion architecture and data modeling.

• Experience integrating ML/GenAI pipelines is a plus.

• Exposure to Tableau or other BI tools.

• Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to lead and mentor data engineering teams.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to design solutions for complex data challenges.

• Skilled in collaborating cross-functionally and mentoring engineers.

• Effective communicator, able to work cross-functionally and translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

• Preferred: Experience with Kafka/Kinesis or real-time data processing, and certifications in Databricks or Spark (strongly preferred).

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Architect and lead the development of scalable data pipelines and platform features.

• Translate business needs into technical solutions in collaboration with product teams, business stakeholders, and data science teams.

• Enforce best practices across teams, including governance, quality, and coding standards.

• Lead code reviews, pair programming, and mentoring.

• Troubleshoot complex systems and optimize distributed pipelines.

• Automate deployments using CI/CD and DevOps practices.

• As our Nike Store Athlete (Sales Associate) your mission will be to deliver a premium consumerexperience by demonstrating the expertise to navigate through individual needs and providing acomplete solution through Nike products and services to give consumers what they need toconnect, train, and compete with the knowledge to achieve their goals.

  
  Responsibilities

  
  ▪ Utilize customer service skills, basic sales techniques, and product knowledge to connectcustomers with the right product and drive sales
  ▪ Build the bond between consumer and brand by providing superior service and adaptingbrand stories to the retail setting
  ▪ Maintain knowledge of various store departments and be available to operate cashregister for regular transactions, perform shipping and receiving duties, stock the floor,perform cleaning duties, and build visual displays when necessary
  ▪ Serve as a product knowledge resource for consumers and entry level associates. Seekeducational opportunities to develop advanced level or specialized knowledge aboutselling, Nike products and culture, sales and service techniques
  ▪ Assist Leads, Senior Associates, and Managers in training entry level associates
  ▪ Assist with loss prevention efforts by providing proactive customer service
  ▪ One or more years of customer service and/or retail experience preferred
  ▪ Demonstrable passion for the Nike brand
  ▪ Able to perform basic math functions, including addition, subtraction, multiplication anddivision
  ▪ Able to effectively communicate in verbal and written English (or other relevantlanguage)
  ▪ Able to accomplish multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
  ▪ Able to work effectively with others in a team-oriented environment and provide excellent

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.