Lead, Strategy Manager

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The Lead, Strategy Manager will collaborate with executive leadership in developing and executing long-term strategies. These roles will identify and evaluate critical strategic priorities and drive action through the business planning processes.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Build Integrated Growth Plans
• Drive integrated actions to win with athletes & drive profitable growth.
• Help leaders solve their most pressing strategic questions via long term growth plans.
• Complete rigorous strategic analysis and synthesize insights into compelling presentations for the organization.
• Develop Future Strategies
• Create the path for future Nike.
• Create frameworks, analysis, and critical thinking to drive Nike’s largest growth opportunities.
• Scope the work, define work streams, and serve as overall project quarterback.
• Audit Impact
• Diagnose results aligned to the plan & prioritize future actions.
• Support senior leader(s) to communicate strategies across the broader organization and develop KPIs to measure success.

WHAT YOU BRING TO NIKE

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• 5+ years of proven experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, or investment banking
• Apparel/footwear, retail, merchandising, and/or experience in consumer facing industries and proven understanding of the competitive landscape / retail marketplace
• 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 cross functional leadership amongst diverse individuals with different goals
• Proficiency in business communication tools and verbal/written storytelling + communication to promote conceptual understanding and mobilize change through storytelling
• Presentation prowess and proficient leveraging tools such as Keynote
• 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-oriented