Overview of the Job:

• The role is responsible to set merchandising strategy and lead the team to bring end to end product insight with global and geo counterparts. Serve consumer with the most relevant products to enable Nike’s vision and drive sustainable growth.
• Focus on Men’s Training Apparel, staying close to the consumer, community, and marketplace

Reporting Line:

• Direct report to GC Training Merchandising Director

Key Partnership:

• Global Product merchandising
• GC GEL (local product creation)
• GC Brand and planning
• GC Marketplace merchandising

Job Responsibility:

• Be a consumer, product and merchandising expert and provide GC insights to inform long term product line planning
• Partner with global on GC seasonal product needs and educate global on GC nuances with specificity and context
• Create vision and plan for growth, working with cross-functional partners to unlock opportunities and drive the business
• Set geo strategic intent of all key products, pricing, flow
• Set geo product lifecycle to move at the pace of the consumer, balancing newness and consistency across the consumer framework
• Drive franchise health across the portfolio, aligned by sport and marketplace team

Functional Skill Required (Hard skills):

• Consumer and marketplace knowledge
• Apparel product knowledge
• Translate consumer insights into actionable strategies and plans
• Fluent in English
• Retail and financial acumen
• Office and web-based tools

Experience Required (Soft skills):

• Eye for product and trends
• Collaborate and drive team work
• Communicate with structure and persuasiveness
• Proactive and resilient
• Strategic and creative thinking