WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

As the Senior Merchant for Nike EMEA Value stores, you will closely partner with your Squad within the Value team. This includes Business Planning, Assortment Planning, Allocation, Liquidation and Retail Marketing all located within EHQ, but well as our Retail partners working on our fleet in Territory. You will have a close partnership with our Nike Direct inline business, Consumer Merchandising, as well as 3rd party vendors is also important to ensure we create one voice within our marketplace. To gain insights you will get the chance to go on market travel and meet the teams in the field to make sure we keep a close eye on consumer needs. Lastly, you will work with our Nike Value Global partners who are based in the US. It is critical we make sure to get the consumer insights across to the product teams over there that create the assortment.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

In this role you are part of the Merchandising organization specifically focused on our Nike EMEA Value (Factory/Outlet) stores portfolio. You will be part of a team of Merchants that have a passion for product & consumer and are focused on optimizing seasonal assortments, obsess how a product comes to life and manage in-season business results. With that, a key component is to help liquidate inventory in the best, most profitable way possible but continue the focus on doing what is best for the consumer.

Requirements:

• We are looking for a team mate with with a strong affection and passion for Product, Sports, Fashion and consumer, with the ability to build successful assortments through careful analysis of data and insights.

• Retail experience is key for this role -  this can be in Buying and/or Merchandising, (Assortment) Planning and/or Allocation.

• A clear understanding of the EMEA consumer and marketplace with a focus on Kids as a plus.

• Experienced in combining Art & Science to create (product) strategies and influence stakeholders.

• Strong business orientation, commercial sense, analytical skill and retail math experience.

• Clear communication and presentation skills to land product and assortment visions.

• Great team player and ability to work with peers, cross functional partners and senior management on all aspects of the business within a complex matrix organizational set-up

• In this role, you will work with different Nike developed tools and systems for which strong Excel skills are a must.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you’ll be working with a team of merchants to deliver consumer right assortments for 200+ of our Nike Value stores. It is your job to drive seasonal consumer right, distinctive product assortments against key merchandising principles, managing SKUs, price architecture, flow, and color. You will lead and inform product decisions to cross-functional teams such as Retail Brand, Planning and Allocation, and online platforms teams, to ensure a flawless consumer journey. You are following the overarching strategy, yet will also be bringing creative and future thinking solutions to improve and optimize our business.

Please note: no relocation offered