Job description
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 the Candidate Accommodation Request Form .