Lead, Strategy Manager, Corporate

Nike; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike is seeking a Corporate Strategy Manager in Beaverton to partner with the Senior Leadership Team on growth strategies across business units and markets. You will lead due diligence, develop insights, and guide executive-level decisions to drive Nike's priorities.

In this role, you will manage cross-functional projects, align teams through ambiguity, and deliver strategy reviews and scorecards for leadership workshops. A strong background in finance, analytics, and communications is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, or related field.
• Masters degree preferred.
• 5+ years in corporate strategy, management consulting, or related roles.
• Experience leading strategic projects and structured problem solving.
• Strong storytelling and communication to drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Direct and execute analyses and due diligence for growth opportunities.
• Lead strategic workstreams with rigorous frameworks and actionable insights.
• Catalyze execution of plans with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate milestones and deliverables across a complex matrix organization.
• Prepare business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

Masters degree

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial modeling

Data analysis

Excel

Tableau

Storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Excel

Tableau

PowerPoint

Job description

Who We Are Looking For

The Corporate Strategy Manager will support Nike's Senior Leadership Team in the development of growth strategies that drive high-level priorities across key business units, markets, and Nike, Inc., brands.

Who We Are Looking For

The Corporate Strategy Manager will support Nike's Senior Leadership Team in the development of growth strategies that drive high-level priorities across key business units, markets, and Nike, Inc., brands.

This Role Will

• Direct & execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, leading to actionable recommendations
• Lead strategic project workstreams leveraging sound hypotheses and rigorous frameworks, pushing beyond analytics & research to insight
• Catalyze the execution of actionable plans with senior leaders and their functional teams
• Align and lead senior teams through ambiguity in a complex organizational matrix, providing project management support to cross-functional teams, including coordinating process milestones and deliverables
• Collaborate with various cross-functional teams throughout the business to prepare business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops

What You Will Work On

The role will support Nike's Senior Leadership Team, partnering heavily with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development & other cross-functional Strategy teams.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
• Masters degree preferred.
• 5+ years of proven experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, corporate development, or business development.
• Experience in leading sophisticated strategic projects and proven success in leading a methodical process of analyzing problems, gathering information, generating options, then proposing and acting on a course of action
• Consistent track record of pulling together diverse individuals with different goals and facilitating productive discussions
• Proficiency in business communication tools and verbal/written storytelling + communication to promote conceptual understanding and mobilize change through storytelling
• Bias towards action and comfortable working in ambiguity, and ability to work through complexity & adversitySuperior interpersonal and relationship building skills
• A curious mind and growth-orientation
• Business development, quantitative & qualitative acumen
• Strategic planning
• Project management in a cross-functional, global matrix environment
• Data analysis and financial modeling
• Market analysis
• Microsoft office suite (including Excel modeling), Keynote and Tableau

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.