Lead, AIC Central Program

Nike • Beaverton, OR

78d

About The Position

The Program Lead will be responsible for managing bodies of work, working with the product and the Central Program team to establish and report on objectives and key results, crafting and driving the cadence of critical meetings, and ensuring that program/project progress is accurate and updated regularly. You must be a strong team player and successful collaborator with the ability to work directly with a wide range of diverse teammates. You will work closely with teammates within Innovation and Inline. Your ability to be organized and deliver results within an ambiguous innovation process is important in this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Program Management or a related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 4+ years' experience as a Program Manager or Project Manager in an agency, and/or consulting environment, or at a FW or AP company.
• Experience managing and facilitating collaboration among diverse skill sets, including designers, technologists and marketers.
• Ability to learn and consolidate highly complex concepts, processes and ideas, and synthesize them into materials to help communicate these ideas in a digestible and simplified manner.
• Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
• Strong project management capabilities to lead multiple project streams and complexity; propensity for thinking through projects in a process-oriented way.
• Strong attention to detail, proven track record to organize, prioritize and deliver outcomes.
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical audiences.
• Outstanding influencing skills with experience engaging diverse set of cross-functional partners.
• Highly flexible, able to quickly adapt to changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Execute and manage pilots to help prove plausibility of technology innovation, including managing project scope, requirements, and success metrics.
• Work with cross functional teams across the business, and manage multiple projects across multiple seasons, and multiple platforms.
• Maintain all project documentation and specifications for your projects, including schedules, and presentation materials.
• Identify issues and mitigate quickly, with a strong sense of diplomacy.
• Create systems and organization out of a chaotic process.
• Ability to be flexible under pressure.
• Able to clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders.

Benefits

• Accommodations for interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees