Principal, Flow Mitigation & Preparedness

Who You’ll Work With

The Principal, Flow Mitigation & Preparedness serves as a strategic leader responsible for strengthening Nike's ability to anticipate, prepare for, and mitigate supply chain risks across the Global Supply Chain network. Working across the breadth of Supply Chain Operations, this role partners closely with Operations leaders, external logistics providers, and key cross-functional stakeholders to identify vulnerabilities, assess potential business impacts, and drive mitigation strategies that protect service performance and product flow.

This leader is accountable for translating risk insights into operational action, ensuring preparedness plans, mitigation strategies, and response frameworks are established ahead of potential disruptions. By connecting strategic risk management with day-to-day operations, they enable teams to make informed decisions, respond effectively to changing conditions, and minimize impacts to Nike's business, consumers, and marketplace partners. Through proactive planning, cross-functional leadership, and disciplined execution, this role plays a critical part in maintaining the stability and performance of Nike's global supply chain network.

Who We Are Looking For

• A proven supply chain leader with deep experience in risk identification, mitigation planning, and data-driven decision making.
• A strong understanding of global supply chain operations and skills at assessing risks, developing structured mitigation frameworks, and translating complex challenges into actionable strategies.
• An ability to create clarity in ambiguous situations, partner across a diverse set of stakeholders, and establish operating models that enable effective decision making and execution across complex environments.
• A strategic and systems-oriented thinker who can anticipate potential impacts, influence cross-functional partners, and drive measurable outcomes at scale.
• Experience working with third-party providers to gather risk intelligence, monitor emerging threats, and translate external insights into practical mitigation strategies, preparedness plans, and operational frameworks for Nike.
• A passion for embedding proactive risk identification and mitigation into day-to-day operations to minimize disruption and protect Nike's business, consumers, and marketplace partners.

What You’ll Work On

• Identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks that could impact Nike's global supply chain.
• Partnering across Operations and with external providers to translate risk insights into preparedness plans, mitigation strategies, and actions that protect product flow and service performance.
• Developing and maintaining risk assessment frameworks, mitigation playbooks, and preparedness plans that help operational teams make informed decisions before disruptions occur.
• Leading cross-functional discussions to evaluate potential risks across transportation networks, carrier capacity, geopolitical events, weather events, and other factors that could impact product flow.
• Using data, scenario analysis, and operational insights to quantify potential impacts, prioritize actions, and recommend mitigation strategies that protect service, speed, and cost performance.
• Building alignment across diverse stakeholders without formal authority, helping teams shift from reactive problem solving to proactive risk identification, preparedness, and mitigation.
• Thriving in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment where no two days are the same—one day developing preparedness frameworks and mitigation strategies, the next responding to an emerging disruption and helping operational teams determine the best path forward.