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.
Nike Direct Value Merchandising Operations ensures we can bring our product assortment to consumers across Nike Value Stores every season. In this role you will focus on operational tasks related to buying and trading the seasonal assortment. You will orchestrate the day to day work within the full Value Merch Ops team to ensure timely and high quality delivery. Finally, you play a key role in the execution of projects related to the tools the team works with.
To be successful in the role, you should be detail-oriented, you have an analytical mindset and you like to think outside the box. Excellent communicator and are able to bring people together and take them along on the team’s journey. Finally, you don’t stop looking for opportunities to make our processes and tools better or simpler.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for a Nike Direct Value Merchandising Operations Specialist to join our dynamic and fast-paced Operations team based at Nike EHQ in the Netherlands.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will be part of the Nike Direct Digital Commerce Operations team and report to the Value Merchandising Operations Manager. You will work very closely with the NVS merchandising team for the relevant/ assigned segment. Daily you will collaborate with cross-functional teams like but Supply Chain, Planning, Liquidation team, Allocation and Nike Global vendors.
WHAT YOU BRING
Our best MOS's have blend a technical, functional and business relates skills:
Communication: Excellent communicator both written and oral and the ability to bring teams along on the team’s journey e.g. build relationship both internally and external (vendors) and create alignment.
Team: Strong teammate with a positive attitude who supports peers and prioritizes team success. Able to collaborate and communicate effectively cross-functions with energy. Proactively approach self-development seeking and acting on feedback from peers & leaders
Operations: A blend of analytical skills, natural system interest, data flow and end to end process focus is required to validate data and align between consumer segments. Results-oriented individual with a strong sense of ownership and excellent problem solving skills, i.e., the ability to structure and simplify problems.
- Process management skills & experience.
- The proven ability and eagerness to learn new systems and platforms.
- Ability to validate data, own data management and communicate to a broader audience
- Influencing skills to drive processes with corresponding dates and gates X-functional.
- High level Operational execution skills and attention to detail.
- Excel- Broad range of skills that go beyond basic formulas and data entry. Will be able to work with formulas, pivot tables and charts, data validation and optimization.
- Comfortable using tools and technology (i.e Outlook, Slack, Power Point, Miro, Airtable, etc)
- SAP Knowledge is a plus
Relocation is not available for this position
Applications for this role will be accepted until July 3rd 2025
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.
