Lead, Strategy Manager, Corporate

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

The Corporate Strategy Manager supports Nike’s Senior Leadership Team in developing growth strategies that advance high-level priorities across key business units, markets, and Nike, Inc. brands. The role partners closely with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development, and other cross-functional Strategy teams.

The manager analyzes new growth opportunities and leads strategic project workstreams, translating rigorous analysis and research into actionable recommendations and plans. They align senior leaders and functional teams, help cross-functional groups navigate ambiguity within a complex organizational matrix, and provide project management support by coordinating milestones and deliverables. The role also collaborates across the business to prepare business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science, or a related field; a suitable combination of education, experience, and training will also be accepted.
• At least 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 methodically analyzing problems, gathering information, generating options, and proposing and acting on a course of action.
• 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 to promote conceptual understanding and mobilize change.
• Bias toward action; comfort working through ambiguity, complexity, and adversity.
• Superior interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Business development, quantitative, and qualitative acumen.
• Strategic planning skills.
• Project management experience in a cross-functional, global matrix environment.
• Data analysis and financial modeling skills.
• Market analysis skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel modeling, Keynote, and Tableau.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Direct and execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, developing actionable recommendations.
• Lead strategic project workstreams using sound hypotheses and rigorous frameworks, translating analytics and research into insights.
• 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.
• Provide project management support to cross-functional teams, including coordinating process milestones and deliverables.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prepare business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops.
• Partner with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development, and other cross-functional Strategy teams in support of Nike’s Senior Leadership Team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager