Chris Fallon Email & Phone Number

United States

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

-Orchestrate alignment to the financial target between Nike’s merchandising, planning teams and JD Sports Finish Line’s buying and planning teams to amplify Nike’s connection to our consumer across both digital and physical channels.-Lead a team tasked with growing a ~$300M mens business for Nike.-Skilled communicator with experience influencing, informing, negotiating and navigating tough conversations with Executive and C-Suite leadership internally and externally, in person and from a far. -Trusted entrepreneurial leader with numerous business tactics to meet/exceed futures and sales plans.-Proficient at packaging and communicating critical consumer data and insights to key stakeholders and decision makers.-Implement and oversee color level sku inventory plans to influence financial targets, which have yielded greater productivity across Nike’s Air Max portfolio life to date.-Analyzed and maximized franchise potential through omni channel sales & inventory assessments.-Deep understanding of marketplace trends, competitor landscape, consumer choice and retail trends across the sport and lifestyle space.

Stretch Role-Led a team of four to close seasonal operating plan chase, providing mentorship and support along with alignment to Merchandising & Gender counterparts-Owned the relationship with partner buying & planning leadership, navigating tough conversations to land the plan.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

-Directed ~$200M yearly mens footwear business with Nike's key partner: JD Sports & Finish Line.-Drove assortment optimization within the bellwether businesses of Men’s Air Max & Performance Running Footwear. Owning the plan end to end, delivering wins for the consumer, the retailer and Nike shareholders.-Led cross functional sales, merchandising, planning, marketing & marketplace operations teams to ensure all parties were aligned to the same plan and data was being used to inform all upstream and downstream decisions.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

-Accelerated Nike’s connection with the streetwear consumer through collaboration with Nike’s city retailers to land the most coveted products with the most influential end consumer.-Managed multiple tiers of distribution, all divisions and genders with key account doors in the Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Atlanta and Miami marketplaces.-Notable Key Retailers Managed: City Gear, Mr. Alans, Snipes.-Spearheaded key marketplace analysis projects, focusing on distribution, population and consumer to maximize marketplace development for the Nike & Jordan brands. Most notably in the Chicago, Houston and Minneapolis marketplaces.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

-Chief Nike storyteller who knows the Nike Brand inside and out. EKIN is Nike backwards.-Managed 18 key marketplace accounts and 38 doors across IL, MI & IN, prioritizing the city attack in the Chicago marketplace.-Trunk Club Pilot Lead: executed Nike Running's pilot project with Trunk Club’s sales teams on the ground in Chicago. Gaining insights and best practices for digital direct to consumer advancements.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

-Managed brand activations in Nike’s unique partnership with the Bank of America Chicago Marathon including: special make up apparel, expo build, race day brand activations, athlete appearances & celebration. - Executed the acquisition, distribution, and brand needs of Chicago Marathon apparel and footwear to 11 key retail partners in Chicago & Nike.com, working jointly with North America sales teams, brand presentation team & digital brand teams.- Developed promo buying time line for future Chicago Marathon events. Streamlining the process for increased on time arrivals of time sensitive products.

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

-Partime while in school.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

-Managed planning, idea generation, and events in a partnership with Nike’s brand and a youth outreach program to create art for the Chicago Marathon in order to drive target consumers to the brand on race weekend.-Collaborated with a cross-functional intern team to develop a recommendation on how to better infiltrate and understand the habits of the college consumer, for a new branding initiative.-Oversaw multi category territory product comp accounts through SAP.