Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are looking for 3 Partner Representatives who demonstrates curiosity and learning agility, combined with a results-driven mindset and a solution-oriented approach. This professional should excel in account planning, including both business and assortment planning and possess strong communication skills to effectively engage with account teams and internal cross-functional teams.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
In this role you drive and execute the account vision and strategy with a focus on Lifestyle or Performance CFOP’s throughout the pre and in-season offense. You are the commercial voice for the marketplace, storytelling throughout the go-to-market process.
You will be accountable for:
• Develop seasonal assortments based on frameworks delivered by merchandising. Ensuring seasonal product flow and optimize in-season trading and replenishment to maximize the accounts results
• Plan your accounts business: forecasts and scenario plans for the account using category, consumer, partner, brand and marketplace knowledge
• Manage the partner and the marketplace: Ensure best presentation of stories and products at your account (digital & B&M) aligned with the One Nike Marketplace strategy.
• Create and drive right assortment for your partner to contribute to the net revenue growth.
• Contribute to net revenue growth and net contribution of your account by managing the end to end business with your account.
• Build a seamless consumer experience, scaling online-to-offline. Obsess product launch journeys across Account platform ecosystem.
• High standard to partnership management, supporting commercial CFOP goals independently and contributing to collective team performance.
• Ensure recurring and consistent representation, presence and collaboration with partner/buyer in the market at retail (retail visit, staff training, competitor knowledge,…) where relevant and within T&E budget.
WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH
In this role you will deliver the above core responsibilities.
You will also work cross-functionally in the Türkiye office with key partners such as Marketing, Finance, Operations and with CEMEA team such as Merchandising, Planning, to deliver on our next % strategy. And most importantly you will work very closely with the Partner’s buying, marketing and retail teams.
You must be collaborative and maximize the effectiveness of the cross-functional team, in service of the consumer.
You will report directly into the Manager, Commercial & Partner Transformation, Turkey.
WHAT YOU BRING
A successful candidate will be expected to clearly demonstrate and articulate experience of the below essential requirements to be considered. Candidates that meet these criteria will then be assessed based on the competencies also outlined below.
Essential requirements
• Commercial experience across multiple seasons, Partner and/or stakeholder management at buyer level: Selling, consulting, negotiations
• Retail acumen and understanding Nike products and consumer trends
• Project management experience, being part of a team and working cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience in Merchandising: create account assortment based on POS account input and strategy
• Business planning: Analytical/ digital KPIs mindset
• Retail planning: Leveraging data, to optimize Inventory & gross margins
• A desire to better serve them with best-in-class retail journeys across the dimensions of sport performance and lifestyle.
Leadership Defined Key Competencies
• Instils trust by gaining the confidence and trust of others quickly through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Acts with courage Displays an openness to take on the unknown.
• Fosters effective teamwork contributes to a cohesive team culture and applies their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Ensures accountability holds themself and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Values Differences and creates an environment in which differences are openly shared, embraced and incorporated into team activities.
• Communicates clear vision and strategy that motivates others to action. Clear consistent communication, and inspirational product storytelling.
• Thinks strategically Thinks beyond the day to day, taking a long-term view of the business based on an understanding of our consumer.
OUR HIRING GAME PLAN
01 Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
03 Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
