APLA Sportwear Footwear Digital Merchandising 3Hybrid

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