Lead, Strategy Manager, NA

Nike•Beaverton, OR

About The Position

The Lead, Strategy Manager will help shape Nike Inc.’s future by partnering with senior leaders to identify strategic priorities, define long-term growth opportunities, and turn insights into actions that drive athlete, consumer, marketplace, and business impact. The role supports Nike’s Senior Leadership Team and works closely with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development, North America Geography, and other cross-functional Strategy teams. It helps lead strategic planning, develops recommendations, and serves as a thought partner to senior leaders on important business opportunities and challenges. The position independently leads cross-functional teams and strategic initiatives across integrated growth planning, future strategy development, and impact assessment. This includes aligning teams around shared priorities, translating long-term strategies into actionable plans, exploring emerging trends and growth opportunities, evaluating investment choices, measuring progress against priorities, and recommending ways to improve execution and resource allocation. The role also leads strategic project workstreams and due diligence, supports senior teams through ambiguity, coordinates project milestones and deliverables, and prepares business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops. Nike offers accommodations during the interview process, including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible interview locations, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications upon request.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, business operations, business development, corporate development, or a related field.
Experience leading sophisticated strategic projects and a methodical process of analyzing problems, gathering information, generating options, and proposing and acting on a course of action.
Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
Track record of bringing together people with different goals and facilitating productive discussions.
Strong understanding of growth strategy, business performance, and value creation within consumer-facing industries.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, including structuring ambiguous problems and synthesizing large amounts of information into actionable insights.
Outstanding written and verbal communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to simplify complexity and influence executive audiences.
Bias toward action; comfort working through ambiguity, complexity, and adversity.
Advanced presentation and business communication skills, including proficiency with Keynote and other presentation tools.
Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational pragmatism and an execution focus.
Strong interpersonal skills and a track record of building trust and credibility across diverse teams and leadership levels.
Curiosity, learning agility, and a growth mindset.
Business development, quantitative and qualitative acumen.
Strategic planning skills.
Cross-functional project management experience in a global matrix environment.
Data and market analysis and financial modeling skills.

Nice To Haves

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.
Master’s degree preferred.
Experience in apparel, footwear, retail, consumer products, sports, or adjacent industries preferred.
Passion for sport, athletes, consumers, and products is a plus.

Responsibilities

Direct and execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities and develop actionable recommendations.
Lead strategic project workstreams using sound hypotheses and rigorous frameworks, turning analysis and research into insights.
Catalyze 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.
Support Nike’s Senior Leadership Team and help lead the strategic planning process.
Partner with leaders to answer complex strategic questions, align teams around shared priorities, and translate long-term strategies into actionable growth plans.
Identify emerging trends and future growth opportunities, and develop frameworks, insights, and recommendations to inform investment choices.
Assess progress against strategic priorities, diagnose performance, identify key learnings, develop KPIs, and communicate recommendations to improve decision-making and execution.