Senior Product Line Manager - Global Football, Clubs & Federations (Multiple Openings)

Nike, Inc.•Beaverton, OR

48d

About The Position

We're looking for multiple Sr. Product Line Managers to join our Global Football Apparel Licensed (Clubs and Federations) team. This role will partner with the overall apparel product creation team, and drive process and strategy for the best Clubs, Federations, and Athletes in the world. We are looking for those 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 in impact product narratives and strategies that resonate at a local level. These candidates 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 compelling retail assortments for consumers. Analysis of current business (including bookings and sell-through by channel, country, GEO, style and color, etc.) will be expected.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience or training
A minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience
Expert Product Management and Merchandising skills and expert understanding of the product process
Strong business orientation, analytical aptitude, and retail math
Strong business management experience
Demonstrated leadership capability, including ability to motivate, lead, negotiate and influence
Ability to travel up to 10% of time
Have a global sense of awareness. (Knowledge of current world events. Respect and appreciation for other cultures)
Experience with Keynote, Adobe Suite, PowerPoint and Excel
Deep knowledge and understanding of athletes, marketplace and consumer landscape.

Nice To Haves

A passion or interest in Global Football (Soccer) is a plus

Responsibilities

Understanding the consumer and analyzing product & competitive trends in the team markets.
Applying expert understanding of the product creation, delivery and pricing needs of consumers, key markets and channels to decision making.
Creating and communicating a vision for product Categories, driven through strong end-in-mind storytelling and consumer-right product strategies.
Serving as the business spokesperson at key product creation meetings.
Directing the team agreement of the product line, costing, and pricing needs of consumers, key markets, and channels.
Driving the execution of key initiatives.
Leading the product creation process through key interaction with product and graphic design, materials, tech design, merchandising, development and operations.
Overseeing or creating presentations to sell-in the product.
Being responsible for line planning and briefing to the appropriate style/SKU level to optimize productivity, margin and revenue.
Developing, maintaining and fostering key relationships between clubs, federations, and Nike Sports Marketing.