Strategic Planner

Nike; Beaverton (OR); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike, Inc. is seeking a Strategic Planner contractor ready to influence growth by guiding senior leadership through data-driven strategy. Beaverton, OR or remote options support collaboration across global teams.

You will lead analyses for growth opportunities, manage cross-functional workstreams, and turn insights into actionable plans with senior teams, shaping workshops and reviews across Nike brands.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in corporate strategy or consulting.
• Experience leading strategic projects and structured problem-solving.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Direct and execute analysis for growth opportunities.
• Lead strategic workstreams with rigorous frameworks.
• Catalyze execution of actionable plans with senior leaders.
• Coordinate cross-functional milestones and deliverables.
• Prepare business reviews and materials for workshops.

Skills

Strategic planning

Project management

Data analysis

Financial modeling

Market analysis

Stakeholder communication

Storytelling

Ambiguity handling

Growth mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Excel

Tableau

Keynote

Power BI

Job description

Typical Title: Strategic Planner

Locations: Beaverton, OR | Remote

As a Strategic Planner contractor at Nike, you can do work with impact.

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 WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

A Strategic Planner 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 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 & adversity
• Superior 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