Lead PLM, NSW Modern, Global Footwear

Location: Beaverton, OR | Duration: 1 Year contract

About the role

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Role Purpose: The Lead PLM, NSW Modern, Global Footwear plays a pivotal role in driving Nike Sportswear’s modern and revolutionary model creation and seasonal execution. This role requires an innovator’s mindset - vision, confidence, risk-taking, open-mindedness, mental agility, and passion - leading fearlessly with a propensity to drive teams towards new and unconventional solutions. As a key line owner, this role ensures consumer-right, brand-defining products are developed and delivered with excellence. The Lead PLM partners across functions to translate consumer insight and brand vision into actionable briefs, ensuring product lines meet both creative and commercial objectives. This role influences across the product engine, ensuring alignment, accuracy, and timely execution that fuels the success of Nike Sportswear’s next major franchises.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage seasonal product plans across assigned categories, franchises, or concepts within NSW Modern.
• Ensure seasonal product ranges reflect consumer, brand, and commercial priorities.
• Create and deliver product briefs grounded in consumer insight, trend relevance, and brand direction.
• Guide the product creation process from briefing through hand-off in partnership with Design and Development.
• Maintain accuracy and data integrity across seasonal line planning tools and systems.
• Ensure timely execution and alignment of deliverables across the creation process.
• Drive collaboration with global and geo merchandising, consumer insights, and GTM teams.
• Act as a connector to ensure seasonal product stories are communicated clearly and land with impact across markets.
• Successful and timely delivery of seasonal products aligned with revenue and margin goals.
• Product briefs and storytelling that resonate with consumers and enable successful GTM execution.
• Strength of internal partnerships and collaborative product creation process.
• Positive consumer and marketplace reception of new and modern franchises.
• Incremental revenue growth from owned models and franchises.
• Key Partners: Design, Product Creation, Global & Geo Merchandising, Demand Planning.

Skills

• Product Line Management & Seasonal Strategy
• Consumer Insight Application & Trend Integration
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence
• Product Briefing & Clear Communication
• Product Storytelling & Brand Alignment
• Operational Discipline & Detail Orientation

Schedule

Hybrid Onsite: Mon-Thurs