Lead, Footwear and Apparel Business Integration – Local Creation (Global Express Lane)

Local Creation is Nikes local creation engine designed to deliver product with speed relevance and cultural authenticity. Business Integration enables Local Creation to operate as a connected system by aligning strategy people processes and tools across engines brands and geographies.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a detail-oriented proactive and resourceful activator to drive central Local Creation Integration workstreams. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys complex cross-functional work brings structure to ambiguity and can move seamlessly between strategy and execution.

A Local Creation Integration Lead candidate should be able to:

• Lead with a future forward operational mentality
• Think strategically and deliver tactically
• Exhibit product creation process experience as well as the ability to lead and execute projects across multiple functions
• Demonstrate creative problem-solving skills
• Lead work independently while also supporting broader strategic priorities in partnership with others
• Possess strong communication skills including listening skills and the ability to facilitate conversations build trust gain alignment and drive decisions across a variety of teams at all levels of the organization

WHAT YOULL WORK ON

In this central role you will help shape and run how Local Creation operates day to day while also supporting how it evolves for the future. You will help define implement and improve processes tools and ways of working supporting Local Creation initiatives in partnership with Global Geo and Functional teams to bring structure clarity and momentum to complex cross-functional efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

Enable Business Integration:

• Translate strategy into clear operating plans workflows and execution support
• Partner closely with Product Management Design Development Merchandising and other Integration teammates
• Ensure progress risks and next steps are visible and understood
• Build clear status updates decks and materials

Lead Seasonal Workstreams:

• Own and manage end to end operational execution for assigned seasonal initiatives
• Outline and coordinate timelines milestones and dependencies across functions
• Facilitate alignment resolve issues and keep work moving forward

Improve Ways of Working:

• Identify opportunities to simplify standardize transform or improve product creation processes and tools
• Support adoption through documentation training and communication
• Build and implement new tools and capabilities to move teams into the future
• Drive and deliver projects against key strategies and priorities

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

On this team building trust with our teammates and business partners is critical so you must possess a strong client-focused approach to the work. You will report to the Local Creation Business Integration Director and work closely with geography and global Business Design and Merch Integration teammates and as well as business partners within the Footwear and Apparel Organization across Product Management Development Design and Merchandising. As a Team we value an entrepreneurial approach open collaboration and clever problem solving to support emerging business needs.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelors degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training.
• 3 Years experience in product creation operations project or event management or a related function preferred
• Proficient in Keynote PowerPoint Miro and experience with project management software such as SmartSheets or Air Table (strongly preferred).
• Exemplify acute attention to detail and demonstrate high level of organization to manage concurrent work streams.
• Highly organized with the ability to simplify a complex landscape to drive easy execution
• Project management experience with the ability to lead cross-functional teams supporting large scale change across an organization.
• Ability to balance multiple time-bound projects while maintaining attention to detail.

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.