Responsive Sourcing Lead – Footwear Strategic Sourcing

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NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream, and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH 

In this role you will be contributing to a Footwear comprehensive responsive sourcing strategy. You will be reporting to a director and helping create and align the sourcing strategies to enable responsiveness to Geographies. This role involves collaborating with others to standardize business processes, working with Geographies to develop responsive strategies, engaging in scenario planning, and analyzing tradeoffs and opportunities for optimization.  This work is not done in a silo! You will be closely collaborating across the Sourcing team, Supply Planning, Geographies planning teams, and counterparts in Asia. This is an individual contributor position. 

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The Footwear Strategic Sourcing team is seeking a Sourcing Lead to support the development of future footwear sourcing strategies. This role involves contributing to responsive sourcing and driving related strategies and alignments with cross-functional teams and factory partners.

The position requires the ability to manage ambiguity and work effectively with diverse teams. Strong communication and collaboration skills are necessary to facilitate clarity and achieve alignment on shared objectives, as well as to address and balance competing priorities. The successful candidate will demonstrate initiative in process improvement and be able to develop procedures in situations where guidelines may not be clearly established.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, procurement, supply chain or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.

• 7+ years’ work experience in supply chain or related capacity in a manufacturing, trading, or consumer goods industry 

• 3 years’ additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree 

• Strategic thinker with an enterprise mindset, comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting to changing demands.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify opportunities and generate effective solutions.

• Detail-oriented and highly organized, demonstrating self-motivation, urgency, and accountability.

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, capable of driving collaboration across multiple functional teams.

• Experienced in data automation and reporting tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI) to enhance analytics and reporting.

• Proficient in using metrics to drive continuous improvement and process automation

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON 

In this role, you will collaborate with multiple internal cross functional teams & external manufacturing factory partners to ensure sourcing strategy and plans are created, aligned and executed to enable the footwear products to be made and delivered to the consumer, with a sharp focus on responsive sourcing strategy. You will also provide sourcing expertise to ensure the critical cross functional projects to be effectively sourced and implemented. In addition, you will be assigned to drive continuous sourcing process improvements and some operational excellence responsibilities. 

The role entails:

• Create and establish Responsive Sourcing Strategy and processes

• Connect and collaborate with the peer sourcing counterpart on model level insights and sourcing execution to support Responsive sourcing alignment.

• Utilize data and reporting tools to gather insights and visuals to illustrate strategy.

• Facilitate critical and strategic conversations between Geographies planning teams, product sourcing team, and other cross functional teams.

• Be on point to represent Footwear Responsive Sourcing in the Global express lane cross functional forum.

• Be on point as project lead for sourcing process improvements.

• Serve as an effective bridge between strategy and execution in the end of end sourcing process.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.