Lead – Strategy Manager

Every successful team At NIKE, Inc. Inc. needs a brilliant game plan. Strategic Planning teams keep the company moving in the right direction by leading the strategic business planning process and spearheading transformational projects across Nike businesses and geographies. Embedded in teams across the company, strategy professionals explore complex business issues; conduct consumer, competitive and market analyses; create financial models and develop action plans. The Strategic Planning teams help write the future of sport by charting Nike’s path forward.
 

Who We Are Looking For:

The Enterprise Strategy Manager will support Nike’s Senior Leadership Team in the development of growth strategies that drive high-level priorities across key business units, markets, and Nike, Inc., brands. This role will:

• Direct & execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, leading to actionable recommendations.

• Design and lead strategic projects based on hypotheses and frameworks, pushing beyond analytics & research to insight

• Catalyze the execution of actionable plans coming from projects.

• Align and lead senior teams through ambiguity in a complex organizational matrix, providing project management support to cross-functional teams, including coordinating process milestones and deliverables.

• Collaborate with various cross-functional teams throughout the business to prepare annual and quarterly business reviews and strategic workshops.

What You Will Work On:

The role will support Nike’s Senior Leadership Team, partnering heavily with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development & other cross-functional Strategy teams.

What You Bring:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training.

• 5+ years of proven experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, corporate development, or business development.

• Experience in leading sophisticated strategic projects and proven success in leading a methodical process of analyzing problems, gathering information, generating options, then proposing and acting on a course of action

• Consistent track record of pulling together diverse individuals with different goals and facilitate productive discussions

• Proficiency in business communication tools and verbal/written storytelling + communication to promote conceptual understanding and mobilize change through storytelling

• Bias towards action and comfortable working in ambiguous environments, and ability to work through complexity & adversity

• Superior interpersonal and relationship building skills

• A curious mind and growth-orientation

• Business development and analysis 

• Strategic planning

• Project management in a cross-functional, global matrix environment

• Data analysis and financial modeling

• Market analysis

• Microsoft office suite (including Excel modeling), Keynote and Tableau

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. 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.