Strategic Planner 4

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Title: Strategic Planner 4

Location: Beaverton, OR ( Onsite )

Duration: 6 Months

Tax Term: W2

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Summary

Skills:

Comments for Suppliers:

• Prior Nike experience highly preferred.
  
  

Job Description:

• On-site role at WHQ
• Typical work hours, WFH Fridays
• End date likely staying as EFY
• Potential for possible travel; should just be once during assignment, specific details unknown
• Degree will be a requirement for this role; minimum Bachelor’s, MBA preferred
• 8-9 years’ experience minimum in strategy consulting, business development, consumer product strategy, etc.
  
  

Top skills include the following:

• Strategic mindset and thought leadership
• Project leadership
• Analytical ability
• Presentation prowess & good communication skills
• Keynote and PowerPoint expertise
  
  

Desired soft skills:

• Ability to influence others (including senior leadership)
• Flexible, collaborative engagement with team
• Ability to foster effective teamwork amongst differing/diverse points of view
  
  

Combination of skills/expertise that would make a candidate stand out:

• Prior Nike experience HIGHLY preferred *
• Strategy/consulting experience working at or with other large corporations
• Demonstrated ability to deeply know a consumer and translate insights into gross strategies
• ETW will be working on basketball strategies to come up with consumer- and growth-oriented plans for the business
• This role will work closely with GM, marketing team, marketplace team, product team, design, merchandising, finance, and one other strategist on the basketball strategy team
• Candidates should expect 2, possibly 3 rounds of interviews
  
  

Responsibilities

• WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
• NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push the edges of what is possible. We look for people who can grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination.
• Every successful team at Nike needs a brilliant game plan. Nike Strategy teams shape & drive the company’s growth agenda by spearheading transformational projects across Nike’s diverse businesses and geographies and aligning enterprise leadership to make our biggest opportunities a reality.
• In this role, you will report to the VP of Nike Brand Strategy and will work with business leaders and strategy teammates in the Basketball business across the functions of General Management, Footwear, Apparel Product Creation, Design, Merchandising, Marketing, Marketplace, Planning, Finance, and Business Integration.
  

Who We Are Looking For

• We are looking for a Strategy manager who will work with executive leadership and strategists to drive an integrated strategic offense by prioritizing, defining and recommending a portfolio of growth strategies, grounded in market & consumer insights, that translate to new sources of advantage and growth horizons for Nike.
  
  

You will have a demonstrated track record of:

• Navigating ambiguity with agility and thrive in such environments, uncovering opportunities and delivering pragmatic solutions
• Communicating with high impact (verbal and written) leveraging data informed and hypothesis driven insights
• Driving creative, bold, independent thinking, leveraging simplifying frameworks and a rigorous results-driven process
• Driving cohesion, positive team environment and a team first mindset
  
  

Requirements

What You’ll Work On

• Job Requirements:
• MBA or like graduate degree and minimum of 5 years of directly relevant work experience. Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law 3 yrs; Bachelor’s degree 7 yrs; Associates degree 8yrs
• Strategy background inclusive of management consulting, investment banking or corporate strategy experience.
• Apparel/footwear, retail, merchandising, digital/ecommerce and/or experience in consumer facing industries and proven understanding of the competitive landscape / retail marketplace.
• You will take a project-based approach to driving impact, completing rigorous strategic analysis and synthesizing insights into compelling presentations for the Basketball business. Specific responsibilities include:
• Build and catalyze integrated strategic plans across Product, Design, Merchandising, Marketing and Marketplace by driving integrated actions to win with athletes* & drive growth and competitive separation.
• Assess impact of our strategy by diagnosing results aligned to our plan, develop KPIs to measure success and prioritizing future actions.
• Build trust rapidly with multi-functional stakeholders gaining traction through quick wins while simultaneously laying the groundwork for longer lead high impact projects