Buyer 2Hybrid

Title: Buyer 2

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

• Role will be focused on physical store assortments across NSO and NVS with supporting collaboration with the NDDC team
• NA Direct will be running IBAs starting in December bi-weekly to weekly closer to tournament time
• Current structure does not have sufficient GFB coverage to support the tournament
• NA ND Sport Merch Directors cover: GFB, Basketball, Team, Licensed, Golf, Tennis, and Field Sports
• No buyers in all of NA Direct are dedicated entirely to GFB
• Additional attention is needed to:
• Priority store assortments
• Win/lose scenarios
• Post-tournament transition to NVS
• Recommending beginning of January to end of August project (9 months)

Key Accountabilities:

Overall

• Partners to support franchise health across Nike Direct, through effective assort, buy, and trade decisions.
• Executes seasonal readiness.
• Delivers to CODE Calendar.
• Drives holistic business strategy and consumer insights into action influences opportunities with cross-functional teams to ensure right by depth and execution (future and in-season).
• Systems expert (ie DDS, AV, etc)

Assortment Curation

• Manages curation of seasonal, holistic, consumer- right assortment strategies for door clusters.
• Curates and adapts assortment against LPAA and MBL to serve NDDC consumer and business goals. Communicates and influences opportunities with Consumer Merchandising.
• Executes Assortment and TAT with precision, providing support to DSM throughout bottoms up planning.
• Surface gaps and opportunities with product priorities against targets, including marketing planner, reactivations, allocations).
• Collaborate with NDDC triad (Sport, DSM, Merch) to drive aligned Buy Plans.
• Provide support and coaching to Buyer II on business and assortment responsibilities.

Trading the Business

• Pulls Monday reports.
• Drive in-season business results to achieve KPI’s, plan and strategy; by sharing style performance and discuss which styles are driving beats & misses to forecast / plan and why, providing assortment context.
• Surfaces emerging consumer and product trends based on competitive landscape.
• Drives actions in weekly business reviews to optimize business and connect to stores assortment strategy
• Highly engaged in the OTB process and influences forecasting based on product opportunities and trends.
• Builds comprehensive insights to fuel hindsight, LPA and Pulse reports.
• Team Leadership
• Inspires excellence through partnership and collaboration ac, managing and leading through change.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Retail Financial Acumen: Buying & Trading
• Product Strategy & Expertise 
• Translate Insights into Actionable Strategies & Plans
• Product and merch Intuition and taste
• Communication + Collaboration
• Ability to manage complex details
• Consumer Industry Insights and Acumen
• Multi-Season Planning
• E2E Athlete & Member Journey Management
• Marketplace expertise
• Physical Merchandising 
• End in Mind Approach