Partner Merchandising is part of the Merchandising Function. Our role is to win with consumers through anchoring our strategies in the Consumer X Field of Play (FOP) Offense, creating differentiated retail and marketplace experiences.

We obsess consumer, marketplace, competition, and partner insights to serve our consumers’ needs and our business today whilst taking a pivotal role in serving their future needs and maximizing our future capacity. This can only be done through the strong cross functional work and partnership with the Consumer Teams and wider Partner Organization.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will be working with multiple collaborators in both the NMP and Geo Consumer teams in driving the football strategy. You will be an integral part of the Partner CFOP Squad working cross functionally with marketing, sales, and planning.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a Senior Merchant for Football in the Partner Merchandising team. In this role, you will represent consumer insights, trends, and capacity planning for a group of aggregated partners within the Marketplace CFOP. This role will be the voice of the consumer, product and storytelling for the Football marketplace for us to win with the end consumer in mind and land the CFOP strategy.

This is a dynamic role, working with real time insights to react to short term opportunities, as well as input into the longer-term line planning for future consumer needs. This role will require an entrepreneurial ‘Just do it’ attitude to bring the mission and vision to life.

The candidate needs to thrive working within a complex environment and with multiple partners, consumers, and countries. The candidate needs to able to drive structure and clarity around processes, be confident in working through ambiguity and taking initiative to explore new ways of working. As a result, the candidate will need to be a phenomenal teammate, have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to effectively prioritize in line with the short- and long-term priorities.

Requirements:

• A professional level of Merchandising, Buying and / or Sales experience, demonstrating a relevant level of business, retail, and merchandising acumen.

• A consumerist mindset with strong product knowledge, analytical mindset and with a sharp eye for product. You will bring a clear understanding of the total EMEA marketplace, from bricks and mortar to online retail.

• A proven track record of delivering results and driving clear and distinct strategies both externally and internally. Account facing experience is also of benefit.

• Excellent storytelling and product expertise, with a proven ability to influence effectively and the ability to communicate confidently.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, to help succeed in a multi-faceted, cross functional role.

• An innovative future thinking mindset, always eager to try, test and new strategies.

• Positive and flexible mindset, able to adapt within a fast-changing & dynamic environment.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You’ll be working with multiple functions and collaborators to land the CFOP strategy with the subset of Partners. You represent the entire marketplace, joining forces on key tasks such as Line Planning, Hind sighting, Trend, and Insights and driving the CFOP strategy across the entire marketplace.

A typical season will focus on advising assortment capacity for Gender / Product Engine that advises our Lead, Play, adopt model to influence future line planning. You will translate the Geo lead assortments frameworks into consumer right account assortments. You’ll be working with sales, planning, marketing and the account to land the go to market strategy. No two days will be the same, with a constant need to read & react to real time consumer and marketplace insights to improve in season and short-term opportunities.