Senior Principal, New Business & Corporate Development

WHO YOULL WORK WITH

Nikes New Business & Corporate Development team is responsible for identifying modeling structuring negotiating executing and integrating inorganic opportunities and new business models that drive exponential growth for Nike Inc. These include M&A strategic investments strategic partnerships and other transactions.

You will partner closely with senior enterprise leaders and regularly engage executive leadership in support of strategic analyses transaction execution and growth initiatives.

Key Partners

• Chief Executive Officer
• Chief Financial Officer
• Chief Strategy Officer
• VP Corporate Finance & Treasurer
• VP New Business & Corporate Development
• Functional Enterprise Leaders

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelors degree in business administration Finance or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training
• 8 years of proven experience in investment banking private equity/venture capital or corporate development
• Experience leading transaction structuring negotiation execution and integration
• Demonstrated ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analysis with particular emphasis on financial modeling & diligence
• Proven ability to work on crossfunctional teams influence leadership and drive project momentum forward
• A knack for framing opportunities synthesizing challenging concepts and comfort with ambiguity
• Cando attitude and history of making stuff happen independently and as part of a team
• Excellent written and oral communication and superior interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects at once
• Strong passion for Nike and a demonstrated ability to translate that passion into disciplined business outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex workstreams and drive transactions forward with limited oversight
• Strong business judgment with the ability to surface key risks tradeoffs and clear recommendations to senior leaders

KEY FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

• Strategic Business & Financial Planning Ability to connect dots and drivers between longterm strategic business plan and financial outlook across Enterprise & Operating Segments
• Executive Influence Strong ability to influence and navigate senior leadership through clear analysis compelling storytelling and wellstructured recommendations

• Shareholder Value Oriented Hyperfocused on driving value by translating longterm strategy and financial horizon into near and mediumterm outcomes

WHAT YOULL WORK ON

• Create insightful hypotheses on how specific opportunities might propel the Nike business forward and maintain our competitive advantage
• Build comprehensive business cases and strategic rationale supporting specific transactions and drive leadership alignment and support
• Synthesize enterprise strategy to identify outsized growth opportunities and the capabilities required to deliver against them
• Identify execute and lead colead key growth opportunities in collaboration with senior leaders internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver against growth initiatives
• Develop an alwaysevolving and nuanced understanding of external innovation and marketplace ecosystems
• Establish and maintain strong relationships across business units to identify unique growth opportunities
• Develop and influence dealspecific working teams that include relevant stakeholders from key enabling functions (Legal Accounting Tax etc.)
• Develop and cultivate a highquality thematically aligned external network across investors founders and advisors relevant to Nikes priority growth themes

• Lead engagement with thirdparty stakeholders as needed (CEOs legal counsel advisors etc.)
• Own critical analytical and executional workstreams across M&A investments and strategic partnershipsfrom initial hypothesis through transaction close and integration support
• Provide informal mentorship and guidance to junior team members helping elevate analytical rigor pacing and execution standards.

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.