Lead, Strategy Manager, Corporate

Who We Are Looking For:

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.

This role will:

·      Direct & 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 & 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

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:

·      Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

·      Masters 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

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 theCandidate Accommodation Request Form.