Senior Analyst, Materials Operations

Sits within the Materials Buy/Sell and Allocation team, part of Materials, Packaging, and Nike By You Operations within the Footwear Product Supply Chain organisation. The team develops, expands, and operates strategic capabilities that strengthen a multi-sourced materials programme and unlock greater flexibility, responsiveness, resilience, and cost efficiency. The position primarily supports Materials Buy/Sell and Allocation while also providing analytical support for Global Packaging.

• Execute recurring materials allocation processes and own the supporting analytics, metric calculations, reporting, and operational updates.
• Provide analytical and operational support to Global Packaging, including collecting, cleaning, reconciling, and organising packaging data from multiple sources to support performance visibility, sourcing strategies, and business reviews.
• Serve as the business expert on the Materials Optimization and Sourcing Allocation (MOSA) tool, documenting business requirements, preparing test scenarios, executing user acceptance testing, validating results, logging issues, tracking fixes and enhancements
• And translating business needs and use cases into technology requirements.
• Execute the seasonal multi-source materials allocation process, including collecting insights from cross-functional stakeholders, consolidating and validating data, running analyses, preparing allocation scenarios, tracking milestones, maintaining process documentation
• And providing recommendations.
• Perform recurring and ad hoc analysis across materials allocation and operational performance, and calculate, define, document, and maintain key performance indicators, scorecards, and supporting data logic to ensure metrics are accurate, consistent, and reproducible.
• Create and maintain packaging trackers, dashboards, scorecards, standard reports, and metric definitions, and develop recurring analytics, reporting cadence, metric calculations, and operational updates for Global Packaging priorities.
• Investigate data gaps and performance variances, summarise findings, and prepare clear follow-up actions for review by team leadership.
• Provide analytical support for value-creation initiatives, validating assumptions, sizing opportunities, and informing project prioritisation and investment decisions.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate, and improve analytical and operational work.
• Collaborate with Footwear Sourcing, Footwear Costing, Supplier Management, Technology, Product Creation, Global Packaging, and external supply-chain partners to obtain insights, validate data, execute allocation processes, resolve operational issues
• And deliver accurate and actionable reporting and analytics.

• 5+ years of experience in operations, planning, sourcing, supply chain, business analytics, or a related field.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including experience structuring, reconciling, analysing, and presenting large data sets.
• Experience building and maintaining recurring reports, dashboards, scorecards, metric definitions, and business review materials.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, variances, risks, opportunities, and data-quality issues.
• Demonstrated ability to execute recurring operational processes accurately, manage detailed work, and meet multiple deadlines.
• Experience documenting workflows, standard operating procedures, business rules, data definitions, and reporting logic.
• Experience supporting process improvements, user acceptance testing, and system or reporting enhancements.
• Comfort adapting to evolving technology capabilities, including artificial intelligence and automation tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarise analysis and operational status for business and technology partners.
• Ability to structure multi-faceted problems, organise large and complex data sets, investigate variances, and translate findings into clear, practical insights to influence recommendations and decisions.
• Ability to navigate a complex, fast-paced, multi-stakeholder process and effectively translate business needs and impact to technology teams and technical/engineering stakeholders.
• Highly analytical, continuous-improvement-minded, and detail-oriented, with enjoyment of working directly with data, technology systems, and business processes.

• Experience in footwear materials or a complex global supply chain.