Senior Merchant, Licensed Product North America

Senior Merchant

The Licensed North America Merchandising team is seeking a Senior Merchant who is ready to leverage their expertise in franchise management, marketplace segmentation, assortment frameworks, and line planning strategies. These roles will play a critical part in driving collaboration through multi-faceted partnerships with both Nike and Fanatics, engaging multiple functions as well as merchandising teams across consumer groups.

Success in these roles will require strong strategic vision, deep consumer expertise, and the ability to manage across multiple seasons and leagues. Equally important will be the capability to influence and shape a clear point of view that guides the business forward.

You will work closely with fellow merchants and cross-functional teams within Global and Geo Merchandising; Planning, Allocation, and Brand Marketing. We also work with Finance, Operations and the Insights / Analytics teams; relying on business reporting for your area which includes quantitative and qualitative metrics on sales, inventory and consumer behaviors.

For Nike merchants, everything begins and ends with the consumer! We are looking for a consumerist with an affinity for product who enjoys the energy of moving at the pace of retail and our consumer. A successful Senior Merchant will contribute to an inclusive, positive, and progressive team dynamic. At Nike, it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

This candidate should possess an understanding of the Nike consumer and marketplace landscapes. The candidate should possess solid retail acumen and analytical skills, and an understanding of retail environments.

This role is responsible for driving the consumer product offering across the different merchandising dimensions while working autonomously, with agility and with a solutions oriented approach. They will also influence the product offering End to End (from insights to adoption) as well as focusing on multi-season management of Nike's most innovative franchises!

What you bring :

• Bachelor's degree in merchandising, product management, fashion marketing or business administration. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 4+ years experience in Footwear, Apparel, Equipment, or relevant consumer product merchandising, product creation and / or retail in a vertical, multi-brand or digital environment
• Strong command of common retail and / or digital metrics such as sell-through, margin, full price realization, weeks of supply, etc.
• Proven ability to translate consumer, sales, trend, and marketplace insights into in-season and long-term breakthrough strategies
• Experience preparing seasonal tools to equip your marketplace partners with an understanding of seasonal priorities.
• Experience developing strong working relationships with teammates and cross-functional partners
• Great teammate and contributor, with an attitude and excitement to learn new things
• Strong communication skills and comfort navigating a cross-functional matrix with an emphasis on influencing skills
• Attention to detail and an understanding the importance of consistency

You will build consumer-centric assortment plans with an understanding of the full marketplace, blending fact-based and intuitive inputs. You will participate in seasonal reviews & assortment building in partnership with marketplace account-focused merchants.

You will balance multiple seasons. Your insights will contribute to future season plans and adoption by supporting Merchandising Leadership and upstream partnership within Global Merchandising. You will manage your areas of assortment planning in depth during the seasonal process and gather consumer trends and marketplace insights from in-market seasons.

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.