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• Empower team of 10 retail merchants to build multi-season strategies, drive productive and profitable assortments, and manage in-season business results of omnichannel Men’s Footwear inclusive of nike.com, Nike App, and Nike Stores.• Partner cross-functionally to deliver consumer-focused, multi-season Men’s Footwear strategy to maintain healthy supply and demand of priority franchises, seed new performance and lifestyle innovation, empower runners to choose Nike, and serve athletes* to form authentic connection with our product and platform ecosystem• Represent Nike Direct on a project team to lead Membership for the North America Merchandising organization. Developed process to streamline adoption and communication of seasonal strategy, implemented Nike-system tagging to identify and track membership product, and collaborated with Global Membership team to help shape long-range consumer-focused strategy

• Developed North America Basketball Footwear franchise management strategy to regain healthy supply and demand grounded in targeted sell-thru expectations and lifecycles in the marketplace. Redefined consumer-right depth and breadth of key franchises to fit consumer demand at authenticated distribution partners leading with Digital platforms• Fostered creative problem-solving, consumer-focused market research, and evolved communication to strengthen partnership with Global Product and Merchandising to craft a consumer benefit driven line plan focused on Innovation balanced with authenticated Signature franchises• Partnered with Global and North America cross-functional team to architect strategy to better serve the female basketball consumer across Footwear and Apparel. Collaborated to create new product, assortment, and marketing strategies to unlock business opportunity and drive authenticity and consistency with consumer and communicated strategy to Global and North America senior leadership teams.• Led team of merchants to drive seasonal assortment and long-range strategies for the North America Basketball Branded Apparel and Equipment business.

• Adapt and conceptualize tools to influence Global Category Merchandising and Geo Cross-Category Merchandising to make enterprise-focused decisions and maintain high-level of cross-category awareness.• Consolidate and communicate Nike footwear POS results across five geographies to inform cross-functional senior leaders and transform Global Merchandising decision-making process to be grounded in both art and science• Developed new process to allow geographies to provide earlier input to cross-category allocation plans across constrained technologies to ensure Nike was best serving consumer demand. Partnered cross-functionally to help increase production capacity for future seasons by prioritizing key franchises and communicated plans to product and merchandising leadership

Responsible for building consumer right assortments for the global offering of Sportswear Core Footwear. Create tools to enable geography merchants to own the end in mind vision for the good and better level channel of distribution.

Drive global vision for Nike Sportswear Consumer Right Assortments. Leverage ideas across geographies as well as cross functionally in the global category to build tools to bring category assortments to life at retail. Tools include assortment white boards, marketing and retail looks, key stories roadmaps, and retail maps. Emphasis in running and women's.

10 week internship in Global and North America Running Merchandising. Worked on a project to identify merchandising insights to create the right assortment to connect with the young female runner.

Worked as a customer service representative in direct sales and customer contactNew shipment receiving, review, pricing, and floor placementDesigned store layouts and merchandise placement plans and styled mannequins for store display