Lead, Materials Operations Management

Sits within the Materials Buy/Sell and Allocation team in the Footwear Product Supply Chain organisation. The team develops, expands, and oversees strategic capabilities that strengthen Nike's multi-sourced materials programme execution and unlock greater flexibility, responsiveness, resilience, and cost efficiency. The role leads business development and strategy for Nike's footwear multi-sourced materials supply chain capabilities, focusing on identifying and shaping new opportunities, developing business cases, and creating strategic pathways to expand capability and deliver flexibility, resiliency, speed, and value.

• Identify and prioritise high-value opportunities to expand Nike's materials Buy/Sell, allocation, and multi-sourced materials management capabilities and ways of working, informed by business needs, supply chain risk, partner insights, and financial value.
• Develop robust business cases that define the opportunity, strategic rationale, value potential, investment needs, risks, tradeoffs, operating implications, and path to scale.
• Shape capability strategies and multi-year roadmaps that translate enterprise priorities into clear choices, sequenced initiatives, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead discovery and feasibility work with Finance, Tax, Customs, Legal, Technology, Sourcing, Costing, Planning, and other subject-matter experts to test assumptions and determine the strongest path forward.
• Build alignment across internal and external stakeholders, influence senior leaders, and translate complex opportunities into concise recommendations and decision-ready narratives.
• Define the strategic framework, governance model, success measures, and transition plan needed to move approved strategies into implementation.
• Manage a portfolio of emerging opportunities, balancing competing priorities and directing focus toward the ideas with the greatest strategic and financial impact for Nike.

• 8+ years of experience in supply chain, sourcing, strategy, business development, analytics, or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Strategy, or a related field; will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• Demonstrated experience identifying opportunities and developing business cases, strategic recommendations, or investment proposals.
• Experience leading cross-functional discovery, strategy, and capability development from concept through leadership alignment.
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills; proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with Tableau or Power BI.
• Ability to synthesise complex inputs into clear, executive-ready narratives and recommendations.
• Comfortable and excited about adapting to new technology capabilities, including AI.
• Entrepreneurial builder who can identify opportunities, turn ambiguity into a clear strategic direction, and develop compelling business cases for new footwear materials supply chain processes and capabilities.
• Thinks creatively, boldly, and commercially, combining strong problem structuring and analytical skills with the curiosity to challenge current ways of working.
• Can assess market and business needs, quantify value, evaluate risk and feasibility, and translate complex ideas into clear recommendations for senior leaders.
• Strong communicator and influencer who can mobilise cross-functional stakeholders.
• Can lead multiple strategic workstreams at once and move concepts from early exploration through executive alignment and decision making.
• Brings a growth mindset, a bias for action, and a passion for building the future of Nike's multi-sourced materials ecosystem.

• Experience with RFP/RFQ (Request for Proposal or Request for Quote) processes.
• Experience in footwear supply chain.