Lead, Materials Operations Management

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

The Lead, Materials Operations Management will lead business development and strategy for Nike’s footwear multi-sourced materials supply chain capabilities as part of the Materials Buy/Sell and Allocation team within Footwear Product Supply Chain. The role focuses on identifying and shaping opportunities, developing business cases, and creating strategic pathways to expand capability and deliver flexibility, resiliency, speed, and value.

The position works across internal functions—including Footwear Sourcing, Footwear Costing, Supplier Management, Materials Planning, Finance, Controlling, Legal, Customs, Tax, Technology, and Product Creation—and with external partners. The successful candidate will assess business needs, quantify potential value, evaluate risks and feasibility, build stakeholder alignment, and translate complex opportunities into recommendations for senior leaders. The role also establishes strategic frameworks, governance, success measures, and transition plans to move approved strategies into implementation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in supply chain, sourcing, strategy, business development, analytics, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Strategy, or a related field; a suitable combination of education, experience, and training will be accepted.
• Demonstrated experience identifying opportunities and developing business cases, strategic recommendations, or investment proposals.
• Experience leading cross-functional discovery, strategy, and capability development from concept through leadership alignment.
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear, executive-ready narratives and recommendations.
• Comfort and enthusiasm adapting to new technology capabilities, including AI.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with RFP/RFQ (Request for Proposal or Request for Quote) processes.
• Experience with Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience in footwear supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize opportunities to expand materials Buy/Sell, allocation, and multi-sourced materials management capabilities and ways of working, informed by business needs, supply chain risk, partner insights, and financial value.
• Develop business cases that define the opportunity, strategic rationale, value potential, investment needs, risks, tradeoffs, operating implications, and path to scale.
• Shape capability strategies and multi-year roadmaps that translate enterprise priorities into clear choices, sequenced initiatives, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead discovery and feasibility work with Finance, Tax, Customs, Legal, Technology, Sourcing, Costing, Planning, and other subject-matter experts to test assumptions and determine the strongest path forward.
• Build alignment across internal and external stakeholders, influence senior leaders, and translate complex opportunities into concise recommendations and decision-ready narratives.
• Define the strategic framework, governance model, success measures, and transition plan for moving approved strategies into implementation.
• Manage a portfolio of emerging opportunities, balancing competing priorities and directing focus toward ideas with the greatest strategic and financial impact for Nike.

What This Job Offers

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