Nike Lead Merchant Nike Direct Merchandising Men 's Sportswear Footwear 

Netherlands, North Holland 

451339429

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

• Merchandising partners:Nike Stores Merchandising,Consumer Merchandising,Marketplace Merchandising,Geo Express Lane (GEL).

• Planning in and pre-season teams.

• Digital Platform Experience team.

• Digital Marketing Team.

• CFOP Nike Direct Men’s Lifestyle.

As you will be leading a complex business area, former merchandising or buying experience is a must for this candidate (internal or external experience). This candidate has greatwith related buying processes and tools. You need to have a confirmed knowledge in retail acumen, the digital landscape and a strong communication skillset with a proactive approach in your daily and seasonal work.

You need to thrive working within a dynamic environment. You will work on multiple seasons simultaneously, while managing through ad-hoc requests. Therefore, you need to know how to prioritise your workload and have a flexible mindset and ability to toggle between various subjects, a strength in multi-tasking is required. Within this role, the candidate is expected to present their work to x-functional stakeholders on a regular basis; strong presentation skills are needed.
Requirements:

• Ability to manage a complex and volatile business matrix.

• Future thinking attitude, always eager to try and test new strategies as well as strategic and enterprise thinking.

• Translate trends, data & insights into actionable seasonal strategies and assortment plans.

• Merchandising Excellence:

• Build the seasonal assortments for Nike Digital and Nike Partner Stores within a strategic framework down to execution, leveraging business KPI’s & member data alongside marketplace insights and the competitive landscape.

• Strong retail and financial acumen - understanding retail KPI’s and how to read sales data and take necessary action.

• Consumer centric mindset (consumer specific knowledge) alongside trend knowledge; although this role is lifestyle, an affiliation for sport is fundamental as it is the DNA of our brand.

• Business and Stakeholder management and influencing skills

• Actively involve x-functional partners throughout the Merchandising CODE deliverables to ensure delivery of your merchandising plan.

• Effectively influence Consumer Merchandising on future assortment needs and x-functional ND counterparts on product support and trade levers.

• Fosters effective teamwork and values differences.

• Tools: merchandising assortment visualization, database tools, online analytical dashboards, fluency in Office suite (Power-point and Excel focus).

• Strong communication + presentation skills: verbal/written English

From a day-to-day perspective, the candidate accountability/focus will be on:

• Building assortments from seasonal strategy to execution; showcase visually and reflect in assortment plan (excel and online tools); decide on product distribution and flow of product for Nike Direct; drive the seasonal process and engage with key stakeholders.

• Partner with respective merchandising counterparts to make sure we are driving the Nike Direct strategy and vision forward.

Business management:

• Pre-season : provide clear assortment direction to planning counterparts and jointly land a seasonal buy in support of the most productive and profitable Nike Direct business whilst aligning to business strategies. Present seasonal strategy for respective business portfolio during sign-off gates and seasonal handovers to x-functional stakeholders

• In-season : with your x-functional counterparts optimize business results leveraging respective trade levers. Navigate a complex matrix in a volatile business with significant revenue impact. Trade your respective business area, actively participate in trade meetings and leverage retail data to understand the performance of the business portfolio; read-and-react using data to drive informed decisions to optimize the business and provide input on monthly or quarterly business re-caps.

• Future Seasons : Provide geo consumer insights to relevant stakeholders and influencing future line plan needs for the ND consumer.

Stakeholder management:

• Responsible for the seasonal Nike Direct Merchandising deliverables, ensuring delivery of your merchandising plan with x-functional partners.

• Works closely with your merchandising leader and team to provide relevant consumer insights and product opportunities that can be integrated in future line planning.

Team:

• Contribute to the overall team culture both in the Men’s Team as well as the Nike Direct Merchandising family.

• Fosters effective teamwork and values differences.

• Provide direction and mentorship to teammates.