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 and execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, leading to actionable recommendations.
• Lead strategic project workstreams using 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 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, and other cross-functional Strategy teams.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science, or a related field. Nike 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 leading sophisticated strategic projects and a methodical process of analyzing problems, gathering information, generating options, and proposing and acting on a course of action.
• A consistent track record of bringing together diverse individuals with different goals and facilitating productive discussions.
• Proficiency in business communication tools and verbal and written storytelling and communication.
• A bias toward action, comfort working in ambiguity, and the ability to work through complexity and adversity.
• Superior interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• A curious mind and growth orientation.
• Business development, quantitative and qualitative acumen.
• Strategic planning and project management experience in a cross-functional, global matrix environment.
• Data analysis and financial modeling experience.
• Market analysis experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel modeling, Keynote, and Tableau.

NIKE, Inc. offers accommodations to support candidates through the interview process, including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible locations, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.

NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.