Brand Specialist jobs in United States, Oregon, Beaverton

** Hiring for multiple roles

Our WHQ-based Demand & Supply Management (DSM) team is looking for a Lead Assortment Planner focused on optimizing the Jordan Brand business with our Marketplace Partners. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in bringing Jordan Brand’s marketplace vision to life with specific focus on pre-season forecasting, reacting to in-season trends and results analysis. You will establish clear financial plans while partnering with cross functional teammates to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer demand. Strong collaboration is a key, working both internally with Jordan/Nike and externally with Partner Accounts. As a Lead Planner, you’ll bring curiosity, a self-starter mentality, influential communication skills, and a strong ability to operate in ambiguous situations. You’ll have phenomenal data storytelling abilities grounded in retail acumen, planning expertise and supported through elevated excel capabilities.

You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

• 4+ years experience inPlanning/Buying/Saleswith emphasis on retail/wholesale financial planning and analysis

• Proven ability to leverage large amounts of data, identify critical information, analyze, and potentially create new ways of working to develop a recommendation

• Strong ability to influence through compelling communication.

• Able to think critically and understand the potential of a product in the marketplace while identifying gaps to tops-down and bottoms-up financial plan

• Advanced Excel skills

• Travel up to 15% of the time

On any given day you might be developing style-level plans to inform financial plans that will fuel assortments and influence buy and supply decisions while partnering with key stakeholders. You’ll also continuously monitor performance indicators keeping a pulse on the business: analyzing sales results, managing key product forecasts, in season recommendations and sharing actionable insights on risks and opportunities. You will create plans that optimize business health while achieving financial targets. You’ll use strong communication skills with internal/external partners to elicit information, cultivate productive dialogue, verbalize ideas, and align financial plans with an overarching strategy. You’ll enable success by collaborating with multiple cross functional internal teammates and external planning counterparts.

As a technical training FW Program Specialist II on the Bowerman Creation University team (BCU), you will be part of a highly motivated, technically focused learning and development team. We are responsible for foundational footwear education and advancing experiences that aid in accelerating the skills and knowledge of functional roles within the Footwear Product Creation organization. We build and deliver engaging learning experiences that fuel passion for creation and manufacturing expertise. Within our work, we strive to cultivate a dedication to innovation, team, and product excellence. In this role you will provide project coordination support to your programming and content creation teammates. You’ll be engaged in projects to elevate and improve our experiences and operational standard methodologies. In partnership with team leads you will support initiatives to improve accessibility, awareness, and delivery of our training content. You will also be involved in efforts to identify and use opportunities that will make direct and significant impact to elevate the technical footwear expertise within our organization.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Associate’s degree or 2-4 years orequivalent combination of education, experience and or training.

• Proficiency with MIRO and Air Table, whiteboarding and database tools.

• Adobe LMS and Articulate Rise360 experience is a plus.

• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite programs. (InDesign, Illustrator, Premier)

• Strong communication and presentation skills.

• Strong project management skills, ability to prioritize, and deliver outcomes.

• Ability to manage and adapt to changing priorities quickly.

• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.

• Demonstrated ability to research and resolve problems and initiative to identify and address needs.

• Dynamic self-starter and strong results orientation.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

In your day-to-day work you will collaborate with your teammates and technical subject matter experts to support creation and facilitation of new and existing training programs and plans based on technical priorities and needs. You will play a supporting role in launching new technical training courses and experiences created by the team, including instructor-led classroom, eLearning, virtual, and immersion training. The goal is to aid our Footwear learners in acquiring knowledge, skills, and proficiencies in an effective and engaging manner that best supports organizational and business objectives.

• Help prepare, deliver, and assess class learning experiences.

• Support instructional exercises and activities in classes and programs.

• Support developing criteria for evaluating effectiveness of training and developing plans for the required updates.

• Responsible for taking action to update and improve content and experiences with oversight from team leads.

• Help develop and maintain supplemental learning tools and resources as needed (checklists, one-pagers, user guides, etc.) for targeted audiences that aid in the understanding of technical subjects.

• Manage and maintain project plans, related documentation, and program playbooks.

• Create instructions, schedules and develop dashboards that highlight critical programming landmarks for the team and partners.

• Document meeting decisions and next steps. Share the recaps with teammates and SMEs.

• Track project progression through to completion with on-time and continuous communication with project sponsors, teammates, and stakeholders.

• Support continuous development and execution of operational best practices.

• Research, evaluate and make recommendations of digital tools and platforms that will enhance, elevate, and modernize our training content and delivery methods.

• Manage inventory and supplies for classroom and program training needs.

• Ensure a diversity and inclusion lens across all learning content and approaches.

We’re looking for an experienced retail brand marketing, people-first leader who can help us develop, adapt and implement retail brand strategies across our retail concepts (owned and key wholesale partners).

You will be responsible for understanding both the art and science of marketing; obsessing the business, consumer insights and the creative ways we tell our product stories in store.

As the retail brand marketing expert, you will partner closely with the concept marketing teams to assist in building the wholistic seasonal store brand plan across concepts and ensure that the product stories are properly represented.

You will partner with Global, Geo and City retail marketing teams to set, adopt and enrich seasonal Retail Brand strategies that define the vision for product presentation, communication and consumer experience in North America. You will also work closely with the Retail Design team to build the vision for how the product storytelling and experiences comes to life in store.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING?

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, Marketing, Merchandising, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• A people-first approach that values diverse thought and is committed to building a diverse team.

• Experience leading and growing a team.

• 10+ years of retail brand experience (building and implementing strategies)

• Large Fleet, vertical retail and store opening experience.

• A strong understanding of the consumer, shopping behaviors and retail journeys.

• A track record of implementing a test and learn offense.

• The ability to fail forward.

• Exceptional written, verbal, visual communication and presentation skills.

• Self-motivated.

• Excellent organizational skills.

• Pro-active problem solver, with an ability to assess an issue and develop action steps for resolution.

• An impeccable ability for balancing creativity with business needs, inspired by the "now and next" and keeping the consumer at the center of the work.

• Able to work as part of a matrix, with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally towards a common goal.

• Can-do demeanor with shown ability of adapting to change in business needs or direction.

• A passion for the Athlete, Sport and Culture along with a sense of humor and humility - ensuring team success, while having fun.

• Ability to travel 20%

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As the Manager, Marketplace Supply Chain for DSG, you will use your leadership skills, cross-functional business knowledge, and supply-chain expertise to deliver product on time to consumers, maximize supply chain efficiencies, and optimize order book productivity. You will work collaboratively across internal Nike and external Partner commercial and supply chain teams. You will manage a team of supply chain specialists and analysts.

The candidate will bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience with an emphasis on marketplace supply chain, transportation and/or logistics

• Experience managing and coaching a team, with demonstrated interest in continuous learning and leadership development

• Ability to effectively communicate, manage difficult conversations with stakeholders, and influence decision making

• Experience, interest, and ability to work in a fast paced, ambiguous environment

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to communicate complex concepts to senior business audiences

• Omni-channel supply chain experience preferred

• Understanding of Nike Sales and Order Management processes preferred

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You and your team will own end-to-end order management process for a portfolio of wholesale Partners for Nike, while simultaneously delivering against revenue, inventory and profitability targets for Nike and our Partners.

• You are responsible for coaching and developing a high-performing team

• You and your team are responsible for working with internal and external cross-functional partners to maintain a shippable orderbook, drive optimal delivery performance, provide delivery visibility, and problem-solve operational risks

• You will monitor day-to-day operations and key KPI's to manage risks and opportunities

• You will manage shipping and supply delivery execution in close collaboration with internal sales, finance, and logistics partners as well as external supply chain partners

• You will work across marketplace supply chain teams to streamline best practices

• You will build expertise in our Partner's supply chain networks and capabilities and develop strategies to streamline Nike and Partner supply chains.

and understands the role visual merchandising plays in developing and implementing the consumersupports defined strategy

This role is responsible for executing product merchandising capabilities within our retail concepts – delivering consumer first, industry leading experiences. You will focus on resetting foundational excellence in our existing stores, and support future renovations and fleet expansion. You will work cross-functionally to bring product stories to life and achieve scale in Nike owned doors.

You will understand the art and science of visual merchandising; obsessing the business, consumer insights and leveraging this knowledge to deliver engaging product journeys and storytelling in retail stores as directed.

You will partner with Geo and Territory visual merchandising teams to set VM strategies that deliver the vision for product presentation, communication and consumer experience in North America. You will also work closely with the Lead – VMS – Cross Concepts to execute the product storytelling vision and experiences in stores.

You will serve as a key functional partner in the execution of the NA retail elevation & expansion plans.

This role reports directly to the

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, Marketing, Merchandising, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.

• 2+ years of direct experience in retail marketing, visual merchandising, product merchandising, or directly related experience.

• Possess a clear passion for the art and science of visual merchandising.

• Passionate about teamwork, collaboration, and problem-solving.

• Ability to set presentation solutions for various retail environments that inspire the consumer, drive sales, and align with the Nike Brand voice.

• Knowledge of the current retail landscape and the latest trends and innovations for retail.

• A track record of implementing a test and learn offense.

• Experience supporting projects in collaboration with cross functional teams.

• There are two open positions for this role.

Information about benefits can be found .

Our first collection launches this Spring in the United States and will begin to expand to global markets in 2026.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will be guiding the creative through the design season while working with a team of designers, developers, product managers, and merchants to deliver creative in line with thedesign ethos. This opportunity will require strong collaborative skills to meet cost requirements, deadlines, all while taking your partners though the thinking behind your work.You'll also partner with category team members in design, development and merchandising to ensure feasibility of designs, meeting price point, merchandising needs and product creation timelines.

We’re currently looking for a Lead Apparel Designer to lead and develop seasonal design concepts for NikeSkims Apparel design at Nike is a diverse culture of creativity, collaboration and innovative thinking on all levels. This role requires strong passion and knowledge of apparel product creation and the ability to problem solve every step of the way, from concept to final design. This teammate embodies expert communication skills with the ability to translate complex ideas into focused design narratives as well as a passion and energy for sport culture and design.

• Bachelor's Degree in Apparel/Fashion Design or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in a design environment working with materials, trims, design and fit.
• Demonstrated passion and understanding of trend and visual culture.
• Knowledge of apparel product creation and finishes.
• Ability to apply and perform design skills such as: drawing/sketching, ideation, color theory, use of texture, spacing and scale, visual presentation development and layout.
• Expert communication and presentation skills using a variety of formats
• Ability to seek out opportunities to elevate apparel graphics though craft and construction.
• Proficient in Adobe CC and comfortable working within new digital spaces.
• Passion for discovering new talent and points of influence for a global brand.
• Highlight and elevate diverse points of view while fostering an environment of inclusivity.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

This candidate will be our lead designer working on a variety of apparel products and collections while working with an amazing design team to create the future of NikeSKIMS apparel at Nike.

• You are a Culture-builder who prioritizes team, collaboration and relationships.
• You have a Passion for apparel design, understanding of collection-based design, can balance strong performance acumen as well as style and are a creative problem-solver.
• You are an Elite storyteller with a passion for narrative and improving product.
• You have Strong Focus, Excellent Time-Management and Prioritization Habits.
• You Ask Clarifying Questions and Adapt.
• You Know Why you’re coming to work at Nike.