LEAD MERCHANT,

NIKE DIGITAL MERCHANDISING

MEN’S SPORTSWEAR APPAREL

HILVERSUM, EMEA

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are recruiting for a Lead Merchandiser position within Nike Digital Merchandising for Men’s Sportswear Apparel.

We are looking for someone who has a passion for product and is a true consumerist with a clear view on how we serve them, while being able to recognize and respond to evolving marketplace trends.

As you will be leading a complex business area, former merchandising or buying experience is a must for this candidate (internal or external experience). This candidate will have extensive knowledge on how to build and drive a clear assortment strategy, by thinking end in mind, to drive the best expression of the brand online. You need to have a strong commercial mindset with extensive experience in retail acumen and KPI’s, to trade & drive the Nike Digital business. All in all, we are looking for a candidate with a proactive mindset & approach in your daily and seasonal work. 

You need to thrive working within a dynamic environment. You will work on multiple seasons simultaneously, while managing through ad-hoc requests.  Therefore, you need to know how to prioritise your workload and have a flexible mindset and ability to toggle between various subjects hence, a strength in multi-tasking is required.  Within this role, the candidate is expected to present their work to x-functional key stakeholders on a regular basis; strong communication and presentation skills are needed.

As a brand and company, we evolve continuously to ensure we always put the consumer at the centre of everything we do. This means that change is inevitable, as we improve our tools and processes, as well as overall Nike Inc and Nike Digital strategies. We are looking for a candidate who embraces change, is flexible when a different approach is needed, and can pivot to react with speed and agility. This person is solution driven and will proactively problem solve.

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience in buying or merchandising.
• Being able to navigate and manage a complex and volatile business matrix.
• Entrepreneur mindset with an ability to showcase a clear vision and assortment strategy for the Sportswear business.
• Eagerness to try and test new strategies, knowing we are operating in a fast-paced retail environment, especially on digital.
• Translate trends, data & insights into actionable seasonal strategies and assortment plans.
• Merchandising Excellence: 
• Build the seasonal assortments for Nike Digital within a strategic framework down to execution, leveraging business KPI’s & Member data alongside marketplace insights and the competitive landscape.
• Strong retail and financial acumen - understanding retail KPI’s and how to read sales data and take necessary action.
• Consumer centric mindset (consumer specific knowledge) alongside trend knowledge; although this role is Sportswear, an affiliation for sport is fundamental as it is the DNA of our brand.
• Business and Stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Actively involve x-functional partners throughout the Merchandising CODE deliverables to ensure delivery of your merchandising plan.
• Effectively influence Merchandising teams on future assortment needs and x-functional ND counterparts on product support and trade levers.
• Fosters effective teamwork and values differences.
• Tools: merchandising assortment visualisation, database tools, online analytical dashboards, fluency in Office suite (Power-point and Excel focus).
• Strong communication + presentation skills:  verbal/written English.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Nike Digital Merchandising is part of the wider Nike Merchandising Function.

Our role is to win with consumers through anchoring our strategies into the Sport Offense. We obsess consumer, marketplace, competition, digital and store insights to serve our consumers’ needs, while driving the business today in tandem with a long-term growth direction. This can only be done through strong cross-functional work and partnership with the below teams.

Key Cross-Functional Partnerships:

• Merchandising partners:
• Nike Direct Stores Merchandising.
• Product Merchandising.
• Marketplace Merchandising.
• Geo Express Lane (GEL).
• Planning teams.
• Digital Platform Experience team.
• Digital Marketing Team.