Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
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.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH?
You will report to the Footwear Material Costing Director, while working closely with Material Sourcing, Planning, Finance and Product Manager teams. You will connect with Product, Design, Material Developers, material Suppliers, and Factory Partners to understand manufacturing processes, material roadmaps, and innovation roadmaps. In your role, you will serve as a primary lead for Synthetic material trends, cost strategies, opportunities, and performance.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
The successful candidate will bring a curious mindset to the job every day capable of leading cross-functional projects and individually leading workstreams. This Costing Lead will need to identify and plan a proactive classification costing strategy, leveraging sourcing segmentations, enterprise impacts, and value capture opportunities. Keys to the role are driving cost transparency, creating supply chain efficiencies, simplifying processes, and enabling cost transparency. The candidate needs to be organized, detail oriented, and thrive in problem solving environments.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, procurement, supply chain or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
Experience: Minimum 6+ years in sourcing, manufacturing, operations, or supply chain; leadership experience is a plus. Prefer at least 4 years in material costing/finance.
Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with footwear construction, material manufacturing, and costing is preferred, along with exposure to raw material commodity markets and forecasting.
Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with outstanding interpersonal abilities for cross-functional collaboration.
Technical Proficiency: Advanced skills in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint; experience with information management systems for maintaining material/product data.
Work Attributes: Strong attention to detail, process orientation, and the ability to thrive in a deadline-driven environment; team player with a proactive and flexible attitude. Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging, with a willingness to travel up to 5%.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON?
As an integral part of the Footwear Material Costing team, you will be directly engaged in the continued development and improvement of internal bi-annual pricing tools and systems, seeking to drive automation and operational efficiency. You will be responsible for assessing global commodity markets, identify value engineering insights, and set in motion cost saving actions that drive performance excellence. You will be integrated across the Material Supply Chain team, working closely within a classification squad on seasonal and seasonless projects.
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
OUR HIRING GAME PLAN
01 Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
03 Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
