Senior Merchant Nike Inline Stores Merchandising jobs at Nike in Netherlands

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

We are looking for a Lead Merch Financial Planner, NMP EMEA to create a 6 season rolling MFP for one (or more) major accounts, grounded in revenue, inventory, retails sales, profitability, productivity, margin, and consumer centricity. You will create pre-season plans that support the commercial of Nike and consumer field of play. You will manage these plans through to in-season optimization and delivery of commercial targets through a robust rolling forecast process and collaborative weekly offense with the Integrated Account Teams and various cross-functional stakeholders.

• Demonstrated experience (8+ years) in business planning (both retail and wlsl) & good understanding of finance, merchandising and supply chain planning processes

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to engage efficiently with a broad range of audiences including retail partner, senior business leaders and other senior planning leaders

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent knowledge of automated planning systems, particularly Excel

• Can identify commercial opportunities and leads decision making based on well-developed merch financial plans

• Demonstrated ability to influence and design compelling communication grounded in data

• A strategic outlook and experience in leading projects

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear storytelling & business acumen

• Bigger picture thinking by understanding how the Nike matrix operates x-functionally.

Critical Thinking:

You are ready to think outside of the box, make decisions even if there is lack of data or information, also partnering with key stakeholders and remain agile.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Self-Awareness:You have a growthdemeanortoward yourself and others. You seek a balance between demonstrating your strengths and working on your development opportunities. You know what motivates you, what your pitfalls are, and what unconscious biases you may bring to the table, and you are able and willing to communicate about them and work on them. You know how to admit your mistakes.

Curiosity:Your thirst for knowledge is well-known by others. You seek to understand first. You are able to make objective recommendations and draw conclusions based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative insights

because you are always willing to challenge your and others’ assumptions.

You are ready to leverage statistical forecasting and data science to develop a decision-oriented plan.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Shape and contribute to 6 season merchandise financial plans, including orders and inventory for Consumer Fields of Play(CFOP) x Marketplace Units

• Manage Risks & Opportunities between CFOP x Marketplace

• Maintain Merch Financial Plan at sub-MPU dimensions (e.g. banner, account, account group)

• Partner with Consumer planning & CEMEA Assortment Planning

• Partner with key stakeholders across Geo to drive marketplace business health throughout the in-season product life cycle

• Influence and optimize inventory Sell-Through across Marketplace

• Reconcile In-Season Assortment Plans with Planning Rolling Forecast and Align to Consumer Fields of Play

• Execute cross-MPU trade-off actions to drive consumer demand, Nike and partner margin and optimize overall marketplace inventory health

What you bring:
• Using your expertise in the field of exceptional consumer service and product knowledge to serve and deliver a premium brand experience to our consumers.
• Assisting our retail leads and floor managers (Coaches) in training new employees
• Supporting various store departments (e.g. operate cash register, manage incoming and outgoing goods, refill products on shopfloor, build visual displays) and recommending appropriate products to reach sales targets.
• Using your knowledge for digital devices to create a bond between online and offline sales or services in the store.
• Informing consumers and new teammates about the NIKE products and services
• Improving your own knowledge via our tools and training courses to stay up to date and to seek for more insights on sales trends, NIKE products, services, and culture.

What you get:
• One of the best compensation and benefits packages in the industry
• Opportunity for monthly 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.

Availability
• Part Time 8 HOURS PER WEEK
• you must be FULLY FLEXIBLE
• Must include two out of the three: Friday, Saturday, Sunday

**For this positions relocation is not offered.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

We are looking for a Lead Merch Financial Planner, NMP EMEA to create a 6 season rolling MFP for one (or more) major accounts, grounded in revenue, inventory, retails sales, profitability, productivity, margin, and consumer centricity. You will create pre-season plans that support the commercial of Nike and consumer field of play. You will manage these plans through to in-season optimization and delivery of commercial targets through a robust rolling forecast process and collaborative weekly offense with the Integrated Account Teams and various cross-functional stakeholders.

• Demonstrated experience (8+ years) in business planning (both retail and wlsl) & good understanding of finance, merchandising and supply chain planning processes

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to engage efficiently with a broad range of audiences including retail partner, senior business leaders and other senior planning leaders

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent knowledge of automated planning systems, particularly Excel

• Can identify commercial opportunities and leads decision making based on well-developed merch financial plans

• Demonstrated ability to influence and design compelling communication grounded in data

• A strategic outlook and experience in leading projects

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear storytelling & business acumen

• Bigger picture thinking by understanding how the Nike matrix operates x-functionally.

Critical Thinking:

You are ready to think outside of the box, make decisions even if there is lack of data or information, also partnering with key stakeholders and remain agile.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Self-Awareness:You have a growthdemeanortoward yourself and others. You seek a balance between demonstrating your strengths and working on your development opportunities. You know what motivates you, what your pitfalls are, and what unconscious biases you may bring to the table, and you are able and willing to communicate about them and work on them. You know how to admit your mistakes.

Curiosity:Your thirst for knowledge is well-known by others. You seek to understand first. You are able to make objective recommendations and draw conclusions based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative insights

because you are always willing to challenge your and others’ assumptions.

You are ready to leverage statistical forecasting and data science to develop a decision-oriented plan.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Shape and contribute to 6 season merchandise financial plans, including orders and inventory for Consumer Fields of Play(CFOP) x Marketplace Units

• Manage Risks & Opportunities between CFOP x Marketplace

• Maintain Merch Financial Plan at sub-MPU dimensions (e.g. banner, account, account group)

• Partner with Consumer planning & CEMEA Assortment Planning

• Partner with key stakeholders across Geo to drive marketplace business health throughout the in-season product life cycle

• Influence and optimize inventory Sell-Through across Marketplace

• Reconcile In-Season Assortment Plans with Planning Rolling Forecast and Align to Consumer Fields of Play

• Execute cross-MPU trade-off actions to drive consumer demand, Nike and partner margin and optimize overall marketplace inventory health

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will report to the NDS Planning Director. You will work closely with Merch financial planner, In Season Analysts and Allocators within the same team to achieve revenue, margin, and inventory objectives for the current season. You will collaborate cross-functionally with the Marketplace Supply Chain, Store operations, Store field teams, Real state teams, Inventory Operations and Enterprise Business Planning / Performance Operations teams.

Drive and execute store-level plans to maximize productivity, profitability, and efficiency.

You will need to have the following skills to be successful in this role

• 1 Year + retail planning experience in a vertical or wholesale environment

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in disciplines such as Business

• Confidence in using Microsoft Office Suite, with knowledge in Excel. Desired: Cognos BI tool, Tableau

• English 85%

• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy, along with ability to work in deadline driven environment

• Interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate successfully across teams

• Competence to understand retail KPI’s, with the ability to use data and analytics to identify critical information on commercial drivers and managing large date sets

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Develop forward looking by-store business division sales and inventory forecasts that hit budget or forecasts.

• Maintain optimal store capacities, and weeks-of supply by delivering receipt unit, and open-to-ship targets to allocation

• Manage store clustering to group like stores for cross functional partners to better influence merchandising assortment decisions

• Partner with business planning on weekly, and monthly revenue, receipt and inventory plans to improve store productivity, profitability and in-store efficiencies through better product flow

• Influence store-level labour plans by providing monthly revenue and receipt plans