Who you'll work with
You will be part of the Materials Buy/Sell and Allocation team within Materials, Packaging, and Nike By You Operations, part of the Footwear Product Supply Chain organization. The team develops, expands, and operates strategic capabilities that strengthen Nike's multi-sourced materials program execution and unlock greater flexibility, responsiveness, resilience, and cost efficiency.
This role will primarily support Materials Buy/Sell and Allocation and will also provide analytical support for Global Packaging. You will work with Footwear Sourcing, Footwear Costing, Supplier Management, Technology, Product Creation, Global Packaging, and external supply-chain partners to obtain insights, validate data, execute allocations processes, resolve operational issues, and deliver accurate and actionable reporting and analytics.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for a highly analytical, continuous-improvement-minded, detail-oriented operations professional who enjoys working directly with data, technology systems, and business processes. The ideal candidate can structure multifaceted problems, organize large and complex data sets, identify data-quality issues, investigate variances, and translate findings into clear, practical insights to influence recommendations and decisions.
This person should be comfortable navigating a complex, fast-paced, multistakeholder process, translating business needs and impact to Nike technology teams, working with technical and engineering stakeholders, and adapting to evolving technology, including artificial intelligence and automation tools.
Key qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in operations, planning, sourcing, supply chain, business analytics, or a related field.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including experience structuring, reconciling, analyzing, and presenting large data sets.
- Experience building and maintaining recurring reports, dashboards, scorecards, metric definitions, and business review materials.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, variances, risks, opportunities, and data-quality issues.
- Demonstrated ability to execute recurring operational processes accurately, manage detailed work, and meet multiple deadlines.
- Experience documenting workflows, standard operating procedures, business rules, data definitions, and reporting logic.
- Experience supporting process improvements, user acceptance testing, and system or reporting enhancements.
- Comfort adapting to evolving technology capabilities, including artificial intelligence and automation tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in footwear materials or a complex global supply chain is preferred.
What you'll work on
As part of the Materials Buy/Sell and Allocation team, you will execute recurring materials allocation processes and own the supporting analytics, metric calculations, reporting, and operational updates. You will also provide analytical and operational support to Global Packaging.
Materials operations
- Be the business expert on the Nike technology Materials Optimization and Sourcing Allocation (MOSA) tool, including documenting business requirements, preparing test scenarios, executing user acceptance testing, validating results, logging issues, tracking fixes and enhancements, and translating business needs and use cases into technology requirements.
- Execute the seasonal multi-source materials allocation process, including collecting stakeholder insights, consolidating and validating data, running analyses, preparing allocation scenarios, tracking milestones, maintaining process documentation, and providing recommendations.
- Perform recurring and ad hoc analysis across materials allocation and operational performance to support business decisions.
- Calculate, define, document, and maintain key performance indicators, scorecards, and supporting data logic.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve analytical and operational work.
Global packaging
- Collect, clean, reconcile, and organize packaging data from multiple sources to support performance visibility, sourcing strategies, and business reviews.
- Create and maintain packaging trackers, dashboards, scorecards, standard reports, and metric definitions.
- Develop recurring analytics, reporting cadence, metric calculations, and operational updates for Global Packaging priorities.
- Investigate data gaps and performance variances, summarize findings, and prepare clear follow-up actions for team leadership.
- Provide analytical support for value-creation initiatives, validate assumptions, size opportunities, and inform project prioritization and investment decisions.
Nike offers accommodations throughout the interview process, a generous total rewards package, a casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and professional development opportunities. NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.