Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
NIKE, Inc.'s relentless pursuit of product innovation and sustainable growth demands bold new ways of doing business - including supplier engagement. Stretching far beyond conventional sourcing, Nike Procurement secures the best supplier relationships to drive business success. The team maximizes the value and reach of the company's investments in external resources, including product materials, marketing services, digital tools, temporary labor, high-tech manufacturing equipment and other products and services to fuel business growth and sustainability.
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WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
An ideal candidate is someone who is a self-starter and naturally curious. They enjoy solving problems with data and will build new datasets if none exists. An ideal candidate excels working cross-functionally, bringing in other subject matter experts where needed, as well as communicating where help is needed.
- A curious, self-starter who's always tinkering with new ways to improve their products
- Someone with a knack for visualizing and representing data for less-technical stakeholders
- An effective communicator who can summarize complex concepts so non-technical stakeholders can easily incorporate them into their decision making
- Someone who naturally automates and optimizes repetitive tasks
- Organized, ex. comments out code, manages timelines and deliverables
- A passion for teaching and sharing your knowledge with others
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON:
One of your primary responsibilities will be managing the data and analytics for the bi-annual Apparel & Accessories materials negotiations, supporting round-by-round negotiations to optimize allocation of $2B in annual expenditure for cost, performance, sustainability, and product priorities. You will build and maintain cost models that contextualize market impacts on Nike's materials cost expectations. In addition to supporting seasonal negotiations, you will build multi-year rate guidance for Finance and track to actuals quarterly.
To accomplish this, you will manage a full-stack Insights platform;
- deploy, automate, and troubleshoot data ETL (extract, transform, load) into cloud DB's,
- create and govern data views mixing internal, external, and enterprise datasets,
- layer in analytics like optimization and forecasting to derive Insights
- deploy Insights in visuals, tools, and dashboards to drive data-based decision making
As the role and business matures, you will develop and execute the long term Apparel Costing Insights strategy, including partnering with Enterprise Data & Analytics and Global Technology to prioritize and transition mature datasets into the Nike Data Foundation for global consumption, expanding the Insights stack to encompass T1-T3+ costing and partnering to bring it to life. Nike is a dynamic and collaborative environment, as a SME and resource for the team, you enjoy sharing your knowledge with others. You will assist in developing and teaching our data and analytics curriculum designed to educate your stakeholders and analysts with the aim to empower them to interact with our data products in a deeper manner, and incorporate analytics in their daily work.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
The Apparel & Accessories Materials Costing Lead will work with Materials Supply Chain (Materials Sourcing, Planning, Manufacturing, & Costing) as well as our Materials Development and APAC Product Creation and Costing counterparts to bring new sustainable and innovative materials to market at a competitive cost across a global manufacturing footprint.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Supply Chain, or STEM
- 4+ years' work experience in an analytics-focused role
- Proficiency in a language like SQL, Python and/or statistics package like R, Stata, SAS
- DataBricks & GitHub skills/experience a plus
- Costing, Finance, Product, or Materials subject matter expertise
- Proficiency with Excel & Office products
NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. 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.
Benefits
Whether it's transportation or financial health, we continually invest in our employees to help them achieve greatness - inside and outside of work. All who work here should be able to realize their full potential.