Manager, Footwear Materials Costing

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

The Footwear Materials Costing Manager will lead a team of analysts and work with Materials Supply Chain (Materials Sourcing, Planning, Manufacturing, & Costing) as well as our Materials Development and FW Product Creation and Costing counterparts to bring new sustainable and innovative materials to market at a competitive cost across a global manufacturing footprint.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

An ideal candidate is someone who is a teacher, self-starter and naturally curious. They enjoy developing others and building team skillsets and sharing their expertise. They enjoy solving problems with data and will build new datasets if none exists. An ideal candidate excels working cross-functionally, bringing in other subject matter experts, as well as communicating where help is needed.

The candidate will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• A minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience
• 5+ years work experience in an analytics-focused role
• Direct people management experience
• Proficiency building and performing analytics and reporting on datasets and queries in SQL and Python
• DataBricks, Snowflake, and Airflow skills/experience a plus
• Costing, Finance, Product, or Materials subject matter expertise

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

One of your primary responsibilities will be managing the data and analytics for Footwear materials negotiations, supporting round-by-round negotiations to optimize allocation of $5B in annual expenditure for cost, performance, sustainability, and product priorities. Your team will build and maintain cost models that contextualize market impacts on Nike’s materials cost expectations and assist with Nike’s transition to Lower Carbon Materials. In addition to supporting seasonal negotiations, you will build multi-year rate guidance for Finance and track to actuals quarterly.

To accomplish this, you will manage a full-stack Insights platform;

• deploy, automate, and troubleshoot data ETL (extract, transform, load) into cloud DB’s,
• create and govern data views mixing internal, external, and enterprise datasets,
• layer in analytics like optimization and forecasting to derive Insights
• deploy Insights in visuals, tools, and dashboards to drive data-based decision making

As the role and business matures, you will develop and execute the long term Footwear Materials Costing Insights strategy, including partnering with Enterprise Data & Analytics and Global Technology to prioritize and transition mature datasets into the Nike Data Foundation for global consumption, expanding the Insights stack to encompass T1-T3+ costing and partnering to bring it to life. Nike is a dynamic and collaborative environment, as a SME and resource for the team, you enjoy sharing your knowledge with others. You will assist in developing and teaching our data and analytics curriculum designed to educate your stakeholders and analysts with the aim to empower them to interact with our data products in a deeper manner, and incorporate analytics in their daily work.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. 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. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form .

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

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