Lead, Strategy Manager, Corporate

Nike•Beaverton, OR

About The Position

The Corporate Strategy Manager will support Nike's Senior Leadership Team in the development of growth strategies that drive high-level priorities across key business units, markets, and Nike, Inc., brands. This role will support Nike's Senior Leadership Team, partnering heavily with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development & other cross-functional Strategy teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
5+ years of proven experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, corporate development, or business development.
Experience in leading sophisticated strategic projects and proven success in leading a methodical process of analyzing problems, gathering information, generating options, then proposing and acting on a course of action
Consistent track record of pulling together diverse individuals with different goals and facilitating productive discussions
Proficiency in business communication tools and verbal/written storytelling + communication to promote conceptual understanding and mobilize change through storytelling
Bias towards action and comfortable working in ambiguity, and ability to work through complexity & adversity
Superior interpersonal and relationship building skills
A curious mind and growth-orientation
Business development, quantitative & qualitative acumen
Strategic planning
Project management in a cross-functional, global matrix environment
Data analysis and financial modeling
Market analysis
Microsoft office suite (including Excel modeling), Keynote and Tableau

Nice To Haves

Masters degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Direct & execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, leading to actionable recommendations
Lead strategic project workstreams leveraging sound hypotheses and rigorous frameworks, pushing beyond analytics & research to insight
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, providing project management support to cross-functional teams, including coordinating process milestones and deliverables
Collaborate with various cross-functional teams throughout the business to prepare business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops