Lead, Strategy Manager, Corporate

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Pahokee (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike, Inc. seeks a Corporate Strategy Manager to support the Senior Leadership Team in developing growth strategies across key business units, markets, and brands.

The role partners with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development and cross-functional Strategy teams to drive analysis, due diligence, and execution of strategic plans with senior leaders. You will lead workstreams, coordinate stakeholders, and translate insights into actionable recommendations to propel Nike's strategic

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science or related field.
• 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 analysing 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 and communication to promote conceptual understanding and mobilise change through storytelling.
• Data analysis and financial modeling.
• Market analysis.

Responsibilities

• Direct and execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, leading to actionable recommendations.
• Lead strategic project workstreams leveraging hypotheses and rigorous frameworks, pushing beyond analytics to insight.
• Catalyse the execution of actionable plans with senior leaders and their functional teams.
• Align and lead senior teams through ambiguity in a complex organisational matrix, providing project management support to cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prepare business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops.

Skills

Bias toward action

Ambiguity tolerance

Interpersonal skills

Growth mindset

Strategic planning

Project management

Data analysis

Financial modeling

Market analysis

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science or related field

Masters degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Keynote

Tableau

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the Role

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. The role partners heavily with Finance, Insights & Analytics, Corporate Development, and other cross-functional Strategy teams. It involves directing and executing analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, leading strategic project workstreams, and catalysing execution of actionable plans with senior leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct and 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 and research to insight.
• Catalyse the execution of actionable plans with senior leaders and their functional teams.
• Align and lead senior teams through ambiguity in a complex organisational 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.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science or related field; any suitable combination of education, experience and training is accepted.
• 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 analysing 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 and communication to promote conceptual understanding and mobilise change through storytelling.
• Bias towards action and comfort working in ambiguity, with the ability to work through complexity and adversity.
• Superior interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• A curious mind and growth-orientation.
• Business development, quantitative and 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.

Preferred Skills

• Masters degree preferred.