APLA Sportwear Footwear Digital Merchandising 3
Nike, Beaverton, OR, United States
Work options:
Hybrid
Onsite: Mon-Thurs
For merchants, everything begins and ends with the consumer! The Merchandising team understands consumer needs and market opportunities to craft a significant product mix for each marketplace. We blend art with science to bring our vision to life in all retail environments, leading with our Members and our Direct digital and physical spaces and expanding to our retail partners. The team has the unrivaled ability to see beyond trends and identify new market opportunities, delivering the right product, at the right price, in the right place, at the right time.
Title:
APLA Sportwear Footwear Digital Merchandising 3
Location:
Beaverton, OR
Duration:
9 months contract
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, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
What You Will Work On As a Digital Merchandising 3 on the
APLA Sportwear Footwear Merchandising
team, you'll utilize marketplace data, consumer insights, foresight, and hindsight to make decisions, influence and develop seasonal plans to serve our consumer. You'll provide qualitative and quantitative insights to the Consumer Merchandising teams, the counterparts on Global Merchandising teams across Sports and gender constructs. You’ll lead the management of our merchandising KPIs through robust analysis of retail insights and performance. You'll build positive and trustworthy relationships with your partners (including our Direct Merchants, Marketing, Consumer Planning, and Territory Merchants, among others) to build and land assortments that meet the needs of consumers, take them to a new place, and differentiate the key points of distribution across key cities. You’ll work with your cross-functional team to maintain the optimal balance between a pull and push market.
This role is located in Beaverton, Oregon but works within the Asia Pacific and Latin America geography, whose main goal is to represent and serve the voice of the consumers who inhabit six major markets in this region (Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and India, Australia & New Zealand, Mexico, and Central and South America).
Who You Will Work With You will work closely with fellow merchants and cross-functional teams within Global, Geo and Territory 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.
What You Bring
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
5+ years experience in merchandising, product creation, and or retail, in a vertical or wholesale environment
Past experience in apparel or footwear merchandising is preferred
Footwear, apparel and/or equipment merchandising experience
Understanding of retail key performance indicators and profit based metrics
Strong strategy building skills that shape the future of the business
Effective communicator that collaborates and brings people together
Values differences and builds strong relationships with high cultural awareness
Proven balance of art and science in decision‑making
Self-directed, independent, and dedicated
Cultivates innovation while also ensuring accountability
Attention to detail and understanding the importance of consistency
Communicates vision and purpose and able to lead effectively in complex situations
Solves problems using limited information and implements solutions with the ability to foresee most future implications
Advises others on complex matters requiring in‑depth knowledge or conceptual thinking
Responds with speed and agility, curiosity, and motivation
Proficiency in Excel, and Powerpoint/Keynote
Must Have
5+ YOE in Merchandising for Footwear or similar industries
Expert in Excel, data reporting, can analyze consumer qualitative and quantitative POS data
Experience creating assortments, selecting products for certain markets based on consumer trends in APLA
Nice To Haves
Knowledge of Sneaker and/or consumer trends
Cultural knowledge of APLA markets and consumers or open to learning about APLA culture and consumer trends
Past Nike experience or similar experience
Extra Plus
Fluent in Spanish, Korean, Japanese, or Portuguese
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Hybrid
Onsite: Mon-Thurs
For merchants, everything begins and ends with the consumer! The Merchandising team understands consumer needs and market opportunities to craft a significant product mix for each marketplace. We blend art with science to bring our vision to life in all retail environments, leading with our Members and our Direct digital and physical spaces and expanding to our retail partners. The team has the unrivaled ability to see beyond trends and identify new market opportunities, delivering the right product, at the right price, in the right place, at the right time.
Title:
APLA Sportwear Footwear Digital Merchandising 3
Location:
Beaverton, OR
Duration:
9 months contract
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, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
What You Will Work On As a Digital Merchandising 3 on the
APLA Sportwear Footwear Merchandising
team, you'll utilize marketplace data, consumer insights, foresight, and hindsight to make decisions, influence and develop seasonal plans to serve our consumer. You'll provide qualitative and quantitative insights to the Consumer Merchandising teams, the counterparts on Global Merchandising teams across Sports and gender constructs. You’ll lead the management of our merchandising KPIs through robust analysis of retail insights and performance. You'll build positive and trustworthy relationships with your partners (including our Direct Merchants, Marketing, Consumer Planning, and Territory Merchants, among others) to build and land assortments that meet the needs of consumers, take them to a new place, and differentiate the key points of distribution across key cities. You’ll work with your cross-functional team to maintain the optimal balance between a pull and push market.
This role is located in Beaverton, Oregon but works within the Asia Pacific and Latin America geography, whose main goal is to represent and serve the voice of the consumers who inhabit six major markets in this region (Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and India, Australia & New Zealand, Mexico, and Central and South America).
Who You Will Work With You will work closely with fellow merchants and cross-functional teams within Global, Geo and Territory 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.
What You Bring
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
5+ years experience in merchandising, product creation, and or retail, in a vertical or wholesale environment
Past experience in apparel or footwear merchandising is preferred
Footwear, apparel and/or equipment merchandising experience
Understanding of retail key performance indicators and profit based metrics
Strong strategy building skills that shape the future of the business
Effective communicator that collaborates and brings people together
Values differences and builds strong relationships with high cultural awareness
Proven balance of art and science in decision‑making
Self-directed, independent, and dedicated
Cultivates innovation while also ensuring accountability
Attention to detail and understanding the importance of consistency
Communicates vision and purpose and able to lead effectively in complex situations
Solves problems using limited information and implements solutions with the ability to foresee most future implications
Advises others on complex matters requiring in‑depth knowledge or conceptual thinking
Responds with speed and agility, curiosity, and motivation
Proficiency in Excel, and Powerpoint/Keynote
Must Have
5+ YOE in Merchandising for Footwear or similar industries
Expert in Excel, data reporting, can analyze consumer qualitative and quantitative POS data
Experience creating assortments, selecting products for certain markets based on consumer trends in APLA
Nice To Haves
Knowledge of Sneaker and/or consumer trends
Cultural knowledge of APLA markets and consumers or open to learning about APLA culture and consumer trends
Past Nike experience or similar experience
Extra Plus
Fluent in Spanish, Korean, Japanese, or Portuguese
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