Senior Merchant, Boys Run & Train Apparel

Sits within the Kids Sport Apparel Merchandising team and focuses on Boys Run & Train Apparel. It combines style intuition with classification management and requires strategic visioning, consumer expertise, and the ability to span multiple seasons. The role drives the consumer product offering across merchandising dimensions, influencing the product offering end to end from insights to adoption.

• Build consumer-centric assortment plans with an understanding of the full marketplace, blending fact-based and intuitive inputs.
• Participate in seasonal reviews and assortment building in partnership with marketplace account-focused merchants.
• Balance multiple seasons, contribute insights to future season plans, and support Sport Merchandising Leadership and upstream partnership within Global Merchandising.
• Manage areas of assortment planning in depth during the seasonal process and gather consumer trends and marketplace insights from in-market seasons.
• Balance interactions and cover the business needs of the Geo Merchandising teams.
• Partner with Global Demand Planning and Global Product & Design to bring business science to life.
• Develop strong relationships with teammates within Kids merchandising across Sportswear and Sport Performance to enable the broader Kids assortment strategy.
• Continuously manage and maintain seasonal tools and assortments as well as long-term strategic line planning that empower Geographies execution.
• Develop and maintain key relationships among cross-functional teammates and drive clear and concise communication.
• Drive the consumer product offering across merchandising dimensions and influence the product offering end to end, from insights to adoption, with multi-season management of Nike's most relevant Classification and innovative Product Concepts.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Merchandising, Marketing, or related field; will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• 4+ years experience in Apparel 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 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, understanding the importance of consistency.
• Understanding of the Nike consumer and marketplace landscapes.
• Solid retail acumen and analytical skills.
• Awareness and understanding of the consumer and the marketplace's ever changing dynamics.
• Optimistic, curious, style-oriented, analytic, and trend savvy.
• Strategic visioning, consumer expertise, and ability to span across multiple seasons paired with influencing a point of view.
• Ability to work autonomously, agile, and solution-oriented.

• Retail, MPU and/or Geo experience.