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.
Information about benefits can be found here.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
If this is you, you’ll be working with an internal cross-functional team across Sales, Merchandising, Planning, Finance, and Brand Marketing in addition to your Account Buyers, Retail Planners and Leadership teams. You will report into the Jordan Marketplace/Sales Director for the Retail Partner.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The Jordan Brand is seeking an experienced and dynamic Lead Partner Rep to manage relationships with strategic wholesale Retail clients. The role will serve as Jordan Brand’s key business liaison working with the client’s Account Buying, Merchandising, Planning, and Operational functions. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about the Jordan Brand, has a strong background in Sales, Account Management, Retail Math, Leadership in the moment, and excels in building and nurturing professional relationships. The ideal candidate will also have exceptional multitasking abilities, a high degree of organizational skills, experience delivering new product stories to the marketplace, analytical skills, and the ability for developing and delivering engaging presentations. Art and science are connected in this role. The ideal candidate possesses strong retail metric understanding and acumen with the ability to translate point-of-sales data into weekly, monthly and seasonal summaries that derive insights to influence business decisions. In addition, this person efficiently manages stock-to-sales plans and creates strategy and action. On the art side we’re looking for candidates who possesses knowledge of the Jordan consumer, streetwear, footwear/apparel trends, and the competency to drive compelling presentations and storytelling to our retail partner.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
You’ll serve as the lead point of contact for the Jordan Brand within a specified account base. You will manage account-facing meetings and engagements, partner with internal merchandising functions to bring to market compelling product assortments, lead and manage day to day showroom operations and logistics in addition driving Jordan growth and consumer acquisition through assigned seasonal targets and order reconciliation.
A typical day/week looks like:
• Accountability – Develop and deliver strategic plans against financial targets
• Relationship Building – Serve as Jordan’s primary point of contact with designated retail account partner
• Integration – Serve as a liaison and advocate for the client to our internal functional teammates
• Pre-season – Create assortment and sell-in strategy, develop financial forecast for total portfolio, execute partner engagement meetings and marketplace insights• In-season – Pursue in-season at-once orders, track sales trends, provide marketplace insights, and ensure minimum advertised price compliance.
• Operational – Ensure orders are entered fully and on time, develop solutions for late or cancelled orders and delivery of product
• Marketing – Help facilitate and ideate on brand marketing moments with specific product launches or
Assortments.
• Product – Sample management, showroom management and takedown seasonally.
WHAT YOU BRING
• 3-5 years of experience in Sales and/or Retail Merchandising
• Planning and/or sales analytic acumen
• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
• Ability to lift to 50 lbs. which may include samples and sales materials
• Any country-specific items required by local laws (check with your local legal partners)
• Willingness to travel (up to 25%)
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
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.
