Senior Analyst, Materials Operations

Nike•Beaverton, OR

About The Position

The Senior Analyst, Materials Operations is part of the Materials Buy/Sell and Allocation team within Materials, Packaging, and Nike By You Operations, in the Footwear Product Supply Chain organization. The role primarily supports Materials Buy/Sell and Allocation and also provides analytical and operational support for Global Packaging. The team develops and operates strategic capabilities to strengthen multi-sourced materials program execution and improve flexibility, responsiveness, resilience, and cost efficiency. The analyst works with Footwear Sourcing, Footwear Costing, Supplier Management, Technology, Product Creation, Global Packaging, and external supply-chain partners to obtain insights, validate data, execute allocation processes, resolve operational issues, and deliver accurate, actionable reporting and analytics. The role executes recurring materials allocation processes and owns supporting analytics, metric calculations, reporting, and operational updates. Success requires accurate data, disciplined process execution, clear communication and documentation, timely reporting, and actionable insights. The position also serves as the business expert for the Materials Optimization and Sourcing Allocation (MOSA) technology tool. It translates business needs into technology requirements, supports testing and enhancements, and identifies opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve operational and analytical work.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in operations, planning, sourcing, supply chain, business analytics, or a related field.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including experience structuring, reconciling, analyzing, and presenting large data sets.
Experience building and maintaining recurring reports, dashboards, scorecards, metric definitions, and business review materials.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify trends, variances, risks, opportunities, and data-quality issues.
Demonstrated ability to execute recurring operational processes accurately, manage detailed work, and meet multiple deadlines.
Experience documenting workflows, standard operating procedures, business rules, data definitions, and reporting logic.
Experience supporting process improvements, user acceptance testing, and system or reporting enhancements.
Comfort adapting to evolving technology capabilities, including artificial intelligence and automation tools.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize analysis and operational status for business and technology partners.

Nice To Haves

Experience in footwear materials or a complex global supply chain.

Responsibilities

Serve as the business expert for the Materials Optimization and Sourcing Allocation (MOSA) tool by documenting business requirements, preparing test scenarios, executing user acceptance testing, validating results, logging issues, tracking fixes and enhancements, and translating business needs and use cases into technology requirements.
Execute the seasonal multi-source materials allocation process, including gathering cross-functional input, consolidating and validating data, conducting analyses, preparing allocation scenarios, tracking milestones, maintaining documentation, and providing recommendations.
Perform recurring and ad hoc analysis across materials allocation and operational performance to support business decisions.
Calculate, define, document, and maintain key performance indicators, scorecards, and supporting data logic, ensuring metrics are accurate, consistent, and reproducible.
Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve analytical and operational work.
Collect, clean, reconcile, and organize packaging data from multiple sources to support performance visibility, sourcing strategies, and business reviews.
Create and maintain packaging trackers, dashboards, scorecards, standard reports, and metric definitions.
Develop recurring analytics, reporting cadence, metric calculations, and operational updates for Global Packaging priorities.
Investigate data gaps and performance variances, summarize findings, and prepare clear follow-up actions for review by team leadership.
Provide analytical support for value-creation initiatives by validating assumptions, sizing opportunities, and informing project prioritization and investment decisions.