Direct Merchandiser

We are looking for a Direct Merchandiser to join the team! In this role you must have a passion for product and an understand the consumer and how Nike serves them.

It's a temporary role due to sick leave till the 4th of August 2025. It's a role for 40 hours a week and you will work from the European Headquarters in Hilversum.

In the role of Direct Merchandiser you must have a passion for product and an understand of the consumer and how to serve them.

As you will be leading a complexed business area, former work experience of retail buying/planning is must for this candidate. Knowledge of assortment building/buying processes is required. You need to have a confirmed knowlegde in retail acumen, strong communication skillset with a proactive approach in your daily and seasonal work.

You need to thrive working within a dynamic environment, which will require working on multiple seasons simultaneously while managing through ad-hoc requests. With this you need to know how to prioritise your workload and have a flexible mindset and ability, a strength in multi-tasking is required. Within this role, the candidate is expected to present their work to x-functional stakeholders, with this presentation skills are needed.

We are looking for someone with the following knowledge and competences:

• Able to demonstrate experience and knowledge of Merchandising;
• You have experience with assortment creation and product acumen. You are able to create a balance product assortment, delivering on the consumer needs at the right product, time, place and price;
• You have strong retail and financial acumen: understanding of retail KPI's and how to read sales data and act;
• You have a consumer centric mindset, consumer knowledge, trend knowledge and affiliation for sports;
• You have experience with tools in Merchandising visualization, database tools, online analytical dashboards and fluency in Office Suite (Powerpoint and Excel focus);
• You have strong business and stakeholder management skills and are able to influence those stakeholders;
• You are a strategic thinker and a strong team player;
• You have strong communication and presentation skills.

We are looking for someone to inspire and serve Nike's consumers by supporting the Nike Direct merchandising team in building a top in class merchandising and product assortment for EMEA. This person is responsible for seasonal assortment creation within a respective complexed business area, creating a Nike Direct omni-channel assortment that caters to both Nike Digital and Nike stores. This role will require close collaboration/influencing with the cross-functional team.

From a day-to-day perspective, your accountability and focus will be on:

• Building assortments from seasonal strategy to execution; showcase visually and reflect in assortment plan (Excel and Online Tools). Decide on product distribution and flow of product for Nike Direct;
• Partner with respective merchandising counterparts to make sure we are driving a full head to toe offering for Nike's consumers;
• Business management, pre-season: provide clear assortment direction to planning to jointly land a seasonal buy in support of the most productive and profitable ND business whilst aligning to business strategies;
• Present seasonal strategy for respective business portfolio during sign-off gates and seasonal handovers to x-functional stakeholders.
• In-season: with your x-functional counterparts optimize business results leveraging respective trade levers. Trade your respective business area, attend trade meetings and leverage retail data to understand the performance of the business portfolio;
• Read-and-react using data to drive informed decisions to optimize the business and provide input on monthly or quarterly business re-caps;
• Future seasons: Provide geo consumer insights to relevant stakeholders and influencing future line plan needs for the ND Consumer;
• Stakeholder management: support the Nike Direct Merchandising team on Merchandising seasonal deliverables to ensure delivery of your merchandising plan with x-functional partners.

Nike Direct Merchandising is part of the Nike Merchandising Function.
The role is to win with consumers through anchoring our strategies in the Consumer X Field of Play Offense. We obsess consumer, marketplace, competition, digital and store insights to serve our consumers’ needs, while driving the business today in tandem with a long-term growth direction. This can only be done through strong cross-functional work and partnership with the below teams.

Key Cross-Functional Partnerships:
• Merchandising partners (ND/Store/Consumer)
• Planning and Allocation counterparts
• Direct Marketing Team
• Digital Platform Experience Team
• 3rd Party Vendors

NIKE EHQ is based on an inspiring campus in Hilversum. A dynamic, energizing place to work that reflects the values and spirit of the brand. Colleagues from all over the world and located in and amongst numerous parks, cycling lanes and running tracks. Nike maintains a hybrid working model, 3 days in the office, 2 days from home.

• Access to the gym facilities on campus;
• Commuting allowance of € 0,23 per km;
• 25 vacation days if you work 40 hours per week a full year;
• Diverse team;
• Work from home allowance of €5 per day on days you are working from home;
• 8.33% holiday allowance.

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Esmée Buitenhuis

Senior intercedent

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