Lead, Strategy Manager, NA

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

Nike is seeking a Lead, Strategy Manager to help shape the future of Nike Inc. The role partners with executive, functional, and leadership teams to identify strategic priorities, define long-term growth opportunities, and turn insights into actions that drive athlete, consumer, marketplace, and business impact. The successful candidate is a strategic thinker, problem solver, and collaborator who can work through ambiguity and help leaders make critical decisions, bringing analytical rigor, business acumen, and strong communication skills.

The manager will support Nike's Senior Leadership Team and partner closely with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development, and other Strategy teams. The role helps lead strategic planning, develops recommendations, and serves as a thought partner to senior leaders. It independently leads cross-functional teams and initiatives across integrated growth planning, future strategy development, and impact assessment. This includes aligning teams around priorities, translating long-term strategies into actionable plans, exploring future growth opportunities, measuring progress, developing KPIs, and communicating recommendations to improve decisions and execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science, or a related field; suitable combinations of education, experience, and training will be accepted.
• 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 methodically 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 individuals with differing 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 creating structure from ambiguity 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 and complexity, and ability to navigate 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.
• Project management experience in a cross-functional, global matrix environment.
• Data and market analysis and financial modeling skills.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Direct and execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, producing actionable recommendations.
• Lead strategic project workstreams using sound hypotheses and rigorous frameworks, moving beyond analytics and research to generate 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 leaders to answer complex strategic questions, align and mobilize cross-functional teams around shared priorities, and translate long-term strategies into actionable plans.
• Develop frameworks, insights, and recommendations to help leaders evaluate emerging trends, identify growth opportunities, and make investment choices.
• Measure progress against strategic priorities, diagnose performance, identify key learnings, develop KPIs, and recommend ways to strengthen decision-making and execution.

Benefits

• Interview accommodations are available, including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible single-location in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications.

What This Job Offers

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