**Position Overview** The Women’s apparel role is responsible to set merchandising strategy, bringing end to end product insight with global and geo counterparts. Serve GC consumers with the most relevant products to enable Nike's vision and drive sustainable growth. **Reporting line:** Direct report to GC Women’s Sportswear Apparel Merchandising Director **Candidate Profile** We seek a candidate with curiosity, creativity, strong ownership, and growth mindset. With style intuition, strong analytical and merchandising skills, and a passion for products and fashion. Experience in merch, product creation, or retail is preferred. The candidate should translate insights into actionable plans, think strategically, and build effective cross-functional relationships end to end. **Job Responsibilities** Brand Leadership and Line Planning The merchant crafts Nike's viewpoint on w’s apparel through line planning and partners with teams to drive results, rooted into sports, but deliver sportswear unique pov. **Seasonal Responsibilities** + Develop consumer-centric geo line adoption strategies by leveraging a full understanding of the marketplace, combining both data-driven and intuitive insights to anticipate trends and deliver business outcomes. + Translate consumer and marketplace insights to influence global teams in executing GC-relevant products and balanced line structure can enable assortment segmentation strategy, including aspects such as color, material, fitting, and seasonality. + Collaborate with the Gel team to identify and capitalize on hyperlocal opportunities. + Cowork with teammate to ensure balanced price / classification structure, drive consistency and connectivity on product journey, and franchise. **Key Partners** + Global Consumer Merchandising + GC WMNS Sportswear Planning / Brand + GC WMNS MPU Merchandising – NDDC/Store/Value + GC Brand Merchandising + GC NRG Merchandising + GC Gel **Functional Skills Required (Hard Skills)** + Minimum 2 years of experience in merch/ buying / product creation, and/or retail in a vertical, multi-brand, or digital environment, apparel background preferred. + Strong passion for and understanding of products. + Solid command of key retail and/or digital metrics, such as sell-through, margin, full price realization, and weeks of supply. + Fluency in both English and Chinese. + Excellent at Excel / PPT tools **Experience Required (Soft Skills)** + Demonstrated end-to-end mindset in managing business processes and delivering results. + Strategic thinker – articulate seasonal priorities to key counterparts with consistency and accuracy + Highly responsible and resilient individual – excels in cross-functional communications ensuring seamless collaboration across teams to achieve common goals + Continuously Grow and Develop with teamwork and Diversity + Innovative problem solving & result driven NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, protected veteran status, or disability. NIKE is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call +1 503-671-4156 and let us know the nature of your request, your location and your contact information.