Lead, Strategy Manager, Corporate

About the role

The Corporate 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.

Responsibilities

• Direct and execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, leading to actionable recommendations.
• Lead strategic project workstreams leveraging sound hypotheses and rigorous frameworks, pushing beyond analytics and research to insight.
• Catalyze the execution of actionable plans with senior leaders and their functional teams.
• 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 business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops.
• Partner heavily with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development, and other cross-functional Strategy teams to support the Senior Leadership Team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science or related field; will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• 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 facilitating 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 ambiguity, and ability to work through complexity & adversity.
• Superior interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• A curious mind and growth-orientation.
• Business development, quantitative & qualitative acumen.
• 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.