Senior Product Line Manager, Global Football Apparel - Clubs & Federations

Nike • Beaverton, OR

4d

About The Position

We are looking for a Sr. Product Line Manager to join our Global Football Apparel Licensed (Clubs and Federations) team. This role will partner with the apparel product creation team, and drive process and strategy for the best Clubs, Federations, and Athletes in the world. We are looking for someone that can establish, maintain, and cultivate key relationships with the teams, leagues, and recognize consumer and competitive trends in key global markets. The ideal candidate will be able to leverage athlete, consumer, and marketplace insights and translate them into impactful product narratives and strategies that resonate at a local level. The Sr. Product Line Manager will lead and collaborate with a specialized product team to deliver and showcase the most innovative and high-performance product in the industry for athletes as well as collaborate with local teammates to deliver retail assortments for consumers. This role will provide an analysis of the current business including bookings and sell-through by channel, country, GEO, style and color, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• 3+ years' experience in relevant product related roles
• Product Management and Merchandising skills and understanding of the product process
• Strong business orientation, analytical aptitude, and retail math
• Strong business management experience
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including ability to motivate, negotiate and influence
• Strong global awareness with the ability to navigate international perspectives and cultural differences
• Experience with Keynote, Adobe Suite, PowerPoint and Excel
• Deep knowledge and understanding of athletes, marketplace and consumer landscape

Nice To Haves

• Passion or interest in Global Football (Soccer) is a plus

Responsibilities

• Understanding the consumer and analyzing product and competitive trends across key markets.
• Leveraging these insights to inform product creation, delivery, and pricing decisions that align with consumer needs, market dynamics, and channel strategies.
• Defining and communicating a compelling vision for product categories, bringing it to life through strong, end-in-mind storytelling and consumer-right strategies.
• Serving as the business voice in key product creation meetings, guiding alignment on product line direction, costing, and pricing.
• Driving execution of key initiatives and guiding the product creation process in close partnership with cross-functional teams, including Product, Graphic Design, Materials, Technical Design, Merchandising, Development, and Operations.
• Overseeing the development of presentations to support product sell-in.
• Owning line planning at the style/SKU level to optimize productivity, margin, and revenue.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clubs, federations, and Nike Sports Marketing partners.

Benefits

• We offer a number of accommodations to complete our 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

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