Lead Strategic Sourcing General Analyst

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

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, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

The Materials Sourcing team sits within the Material Supply Chain (MatSC) organization. The Materials Sourcing team shapes the source base of materials suppliers that manufacture the thousands of materials within Nike’s Footwear supply chain. The team is comprised of strategic thinkers who advance our mission of driving outsized opportunity across materials lead-time, cost, quality, and sustainability while integrating strategy and mitigating risk of source base disruption.

We’re looking for a strategic and self-starting individual to stand-up new sourcing strategies for footwear materials, driving collaboration with internal and external teams. Materials are critical to Nike and there’s a need for a cohesive strategy across source base, cost, resiliency, risk, and sustainability. The ideal candidate will be a team player, someone who is comfortable navigating ambiguity and working cross-functionally, and able to communicate strategy to both technical teams as well as senior leadership.

This person will be comfortable thinking outside the box and will work collaboratively to achieve results.

As part of the Footwear Material Sourcing team, you will be the lead creating and adapting sourcing strategies that serve a wide range of goals across product excellence, profitability, delivery, resiliency, and sustainability. You will partner closely with Product Creation teams and Material Supply Chain teams to develop and refine strategy, and ensure alignment across the Nike organization. You will drive strategic supply chain projects to create a more responsive, responsible, resilient, and efficient materials supply chain, including country-level localization priorities.

You will develop and deploy material sourcing strategies to scale innovation into inline products, including supplier evaluation and scalability assessment, leveraging cross-functional support for critical inputs such as material forecast, vendor capacity, costing and commercial agreements.

You will partner closely with:

• Materials Supply Chain teammates including Materials Sourcing, Materials Costing, Materials Planning, Materials Manufacturing, and Partner Management
• Footwear Material Development
• T1 Footwear Sourcing
• Innovation teams to understand the landscape of what’s coming next in materials for Nike
• Sustainability to support achieving Nike’s FY30 sustainability targets
• Global Supply Planning
• External Material Vendors

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• 7+ years of Sourcing, Costing, Manufacturing, or relevant experience in Materials
• Strong material expertise in the Footwear industry required
• Great knowledge of material suppliers landscape, with technical manufacturing expertise
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to go the extra mile to find solutions