Expert Merchant, NikeSKIMS

Role Overview

This role leads the end-to-end global merchandising strategy and seasonal assortment ownership for NikeSKIMS accountable for building governing and activating seasonal assortments across Apparel Footwear and Accessories (AXS). The position serves as the single point of global merchandising ownership and clarity creating assortment strategy and marketplace segmentation strategy ensuring fullline adoption and consumerled assortments across all geographies channels and partners.

This leader operates at the intersection of strategy execution and curation partnering closely with Nike and SKIMS stakeholders across Merch Product Planning Ops Retail and Geo teams.

What Youll Work On

Global Assortment Strategy & Ownership

• Own global seasonal assortments across Apparel Footwear and AXS.
• Build style color and size frameworks including drops launch cadence and newness vs. carryover decisions.
• Maintain AV Excel and Keynote as the single source of truth for global and geo teams.
• Clearly define nonnegotiables vs. flex areas (style adoption vs. depth) in assortment adoption with Geo merch partners.

Geo Partnership & Marketplace Alignment

• Strategize product/assortment segmentation and drive assortment alignment across Nike Direct wholesale and strategic marketplace partners.
• Partner with NA EMEA APLA and GC on seasonality climate and capacity considerations.
• Lead geo workshops to adapt global direction within retail constraints.

Seasonal Line Planning & Roadmaps

• Partner with product team on seasonal Line planning roadmaps longrange views and investment framing. (Seasonal Style & CC target)
• Drive global drop calendars flow and launch sequencing.
• Lead merchandising inputs into GTM GGP and IBA for marketplace execution.

CrossFunctional Leadership

• Partner with Design and PLM on styling key looks color validation materials and naming.
• Align with Planning on style ranking for investment size curves depth logic carryovers cancels and buy timing.
• Collaborate with Ops PIA and Systems on AV readiness MMX imagery and flow.
• Support Marketing and Digital product readiness.

Performance Tracking & Seasonal Hindsight Leadership

• Review weekly POS and launch performance; translate insights into future assortments.
• Drive seasonal hindsight and continuous improvement.

Retail & Visual Merchandising Input

• Partner with VMS and Retail team on fixture strategy capacity constraints and brand storytelling at retail.
• Define Nike Direct layouts capacity frameworks and minimum viable footprints by store size.
• Collaborate to provide merchandising framework and strategy for future retail concepts and vision for NikeSkims.

Governance & Communication

• Act as the central point of merchandising clarity across Merch Planning Geo Product Operations and SKIMS partners.

Who We Are Looking For

• 5 years of relevant industry experience in merchandising.
• Bachelors degree in Merchandising or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training.
• Strong global merchandising leadership experience across Apparel and Footwear.
• Proven ability to lead complex matrixed and partnershipdriven businesses with clarity and influence.
• Deep understanding of consumerled assortment building and performance analysis.
• Exceptional crossfunctional influence clarity and decisionmaking skills.
• Highly organized decisive and comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy execution and governance.
• HIGHLY entrepreneurial and able to work in an ambiguous resource constrained and off Nike process environment.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for in-person interviews closed captioning and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover as you navigate our application process that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.