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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 is looking for a Senior Manager, Security PMO Governance & Delivery to lead governance, strategic planning, and delivery oversight across Global Security Governance & Modernization initiatives.

This role serves as the connective tissue between strategy and execution, translating security modernization priorities into integrated roadmaps, governance forums, executive updates, investment visibility, and disciplined portfolio delivery.
You will maintain the enterprise view across modernization programs, capability investments, governance workstreams, and strategic initiatives while ensuring leaders have clear, credible, and timely information to make decisions and drive action.

In this role you will work and collaborate with:
·      Global Security Governance & Modernization leadership
·      Security Capability Owners across Identity & Access, Detect & Respond, Controlled Movement & Shelter, and Operational Resilience / Governance & RTO
·      Global Safety & Security leadership and operations teams
·      Security Modernization PMO, ETW project management resources, and delivery partners
·      Technology, Global Places & Services, Procurement, Finance, Legal, Privacy, HR, and other enterprise functions
·      Finance PMO, GPS PMO, Technology PMO, and cross-functional planning partners
·      Security Advisory Board members and executive stakeholders
·      External consultants, vendors, integrators, and strategic partners

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The candidate should demonstrate:
·      Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Project Management, Public Administration, Strategy, Operations, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
·      7+ years of directly relevant experience in portfolio management, PMO leadership, strategy, governance, management consulting, enterprise transformation, business operations, or program management.
·      Experience managing large-scale, multi-year portfolios or complex cross-functional strategic initiatives.
·      Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and aligning stakeholders across matrixed organizations.
·      Experience creating multi-year roadmaps, investment plans, governance structures, executive reporting, and operating rhythms.
·      Strong analytical, financial, and business planning skills with the ability to connect strategy, funding, execution, and outcomes.
·      Experience managing risks, dependencies, prioritization decisions, decision logs, issues, and competing business demands.
·      Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to create crisp executive updates, strategic narratives, one-pagers, scorecards, and decision materials.
·      Excellent facilitation skills, including the ability to run governance forums, leadership reviews, and cross-functional working sessions.
·      Experience developing dashboards, KPIs, portfolio status views, and performance reporting that leaders can act on.
·      Comfort operating in ambiguity and bringing structure, sequencing, and clarity to complex work.
·      Collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability through governance, transparency, and disciplined follow-through.

Preferred Requirements:
·      Experience leading or supporting enterprise PMOs, transformation offices, governance functions, strategy teams, or portfolio management organizations.
·      Experience working across Security, Technology, Finance, Facilities, Procurement, Legal, HR, Privacy, and Corporate Functions.
·      Knowledge of portfolio management methodologies, governance models, capital planning, annual planning, and long-range planning processes.
·      Experience facilitating advisory boards, steering committees, executive governance forums, or senior leadership operating rhythms.
·      Strong storytelling and presentation-building skills, including the ability to synthesize complex portfolio information into clear executive narratives.
·      Experience managing capital investments, operating budgets, financial governance, funding phasing, or investment prioritization.
·      Experience balancing strategic planning with disciplined execution oversight across multiple programs, workstreams, and partner organizations.
·      Master of Business Administration and/or similar graduate degree preferred.
 

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
As the Senior Manager, Security PMO Governance & Delivery , you will help shape and operationalize the long
term strategy for Global Security Governance & Modernization while ensuring disciplined execution across the
portfolio. You will serve as the portfolio leader responsible for integrating strategy, planning, governance, financial
oversight, risk management, and delivery transparency into one connected operating model.
 

Build & Maintain Integrated Portfolio Plans
·      Own the integrated master roadmap across capability areas, programs, governance workstreams, and cross-functional partners.
·      Translate strategic objectives into sequenced roadmaps, milestones, workstreams, decision points, and measurable outcomes.
·      Coordinate portfolio priorities, dependencies, handoffs, critical path activities, and cross-functional sequencing.
·      Ensure alignment across Security, Technology, GPS, Finance, Procurement, HR, Legal, Privacy, and delivery partners.
·      Maintain roadmap transparency so leaders can understand progress, tradeoffs, risks, and upcoming decisions.
 

Drive Governance & Functional Alignment
·      Lead governance cadence across modernization programs and strategic security initiatives.
·      Facilitate Security Advisory Board meetings, decision forums, leadership reviews, and executive update cycles.
·      Develop executive presentations, strategic narratives, decision materials, quarterly updates, and portfolio readouts.
·      Help leaders evaluate tradeoffs related to scope, timing, sequencing, resource needs, financial impacts, and risk.
·      Establish and continuously improve governance frameworks, decision rights, escalation paths, and portfolio operating rhythms.
 

Lead Financial & Risk Management
·      Partner with Finance and PMO organizations to support investment planning, spend transparency, funding phasing, and cost governance.
·      Coordinate portfolio financial reporting, budget visibility, forecast updates, and investment performance reviews.
·      Support annual planning, long-range planning, business case development, and investment prioritization activities.
·      Maintain risk, issue, assumption, dependency, and decision discipline across the portfolio.
·      Facilitate tradeoff discussions related to funding, timing, scope, capacity, sequencing, and enterprise impact.
 

Enable Delivery
·      Ensure consistent execution methodologies, governance processes, reporting practices, and delivery expectations across the portfolio.
·      Partner with Capability Owners, project managers, ETW resources, vendors, and functional delivery teams to maintain alignment and momentum.
·      Drive accountability, transparency, and execution discipline without becoming the project manager for every individual initiative.
·      Identify opportunities to simplify governance, reduce noise, improve decision quality, and increase portfolio effectiveness.
·      Help prevent fragmentation by ensuring programs, capabilities, and partners operate through one integrated roadmap and governance model.

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.

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What You Can Expect

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.

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