This role is a member to the Footwear Sourcing team. In this role, you will be contributing to a comprehensive sourcing strategy. You will be reporting to a director and helping manage sourcing strategies and product plans over multiple horizons and complexities. Your work will include scenario planning, analyzing business tradeoffs and optimization opportunities, standardizing business processes, and creating the future of Nike Footwear Sourcing. This work is not done in a silo! You will be closely collaborating with Geographies, Supply Planning, Product Development & Innovation, manufacturing, internal analytics teams, counterparts in Asia, as well as factory partners. This is an individual contributor role with significant influence and collaboration across global teams.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Sr. Sourcing Business Analyst who is passionate about building for the future of footwear sourcing with out-of-the-box thinking and a proactive approach to operational challenges. You will manage multiple workstreams and drive insights into actions by partnering with cross-functional partners. You are comfortable with ambiguity and bring a self-starter attitude that is excited to work on sourcing and operational challenges to achieve a shared vision.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments, embraces ambiguity with confidence, and brings a proactive, self-starter mindset. You’ll tackle complex operational challenges across both short- and long-term horizons, turning uncertainty into opportunity and driving progress toward our shared vision. The ideal candidate is a natural collaborator who can unite diverse stakeholders and data driven decision making in a fast-paced, cross-functional setting.

This role is perfect for someone with experience in supply chain, product, or manufacturing who also possesses exceptional analytical and communication skills. The ability to influence, build consensus, and foster collaboration is essential.

You will bring:

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

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

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

• Strategic thinking and enterprise mindset

• Comfortable working with ambiguity and changing demands

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to see opportunity and generate solutions.

• Self-motivated, with strong sense of accountability, resourcefulness, and drive. A ready mindset for continual process improvement and automation

• Strong communication skills, specifically with influencing and storytelling

• Detail oriented with strong organizational skills and a strong sense of self-motivation and urgency

• Proficiency with data automation and reporting tools (Tableau, PowerBI, Smartsheets) to support the development of innovative analytics and reporting

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON

In this role, you will collaborate with multiple Nike 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. You will also provide sourcing expertise to ensure the critical cross functional projects are effectively sourced and implemented. In addition, you will drive continuous sourcing process improvements. 

The role entails:

• Performing analysis to inform the creation of the Footwear Network Strategy, long-term capacity planning,  or a subset of product sourcing strategy including supporting coverage of Sport seasonal sourcing.

• Utilizing advanced optimization and scenario planning tools for strategic analysis and assessments

• Leading and supporting specific strategic sourcing processes through global cross-functional collaboration

• Assisting with innovation-related sourcing initiatives

• Contributing to the establishment and refinement of best practices in processes and operational models