Strategy Planner

Nike Inc; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Nike, Inc. is seeking a Strategy Planner to shape the Kids Business and youth sports at Beaverton, Oregon.

The role partners with the Kids Leadership team to identify strategic priorities, define growth opportunities, and translate insights into decisive actions that impact athletes, consumers, marketplaces, and the business. You will independently lead cross-functional initiatives in Building Integrated Growth Plans, Developing Future Strategies, and Assessing Impact, with emphasis on rigorous

Qualifications

• Must have proven experience leading sophisticated strategic projects and a methodical problem-solving approach.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong communication skills, including executive storytelling and simplifying complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Direct and execute analyses and due diligence for growth opportunities, delivering actionable recommendations.
• Lead strategic project workstreams using robust hypotheses and frameworks.
• Catalyze execution of actionable plans with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Guide teams through ambiguity in a complex, matrixed organization with clear project milestones.
• Collaborate with cross-functional groups to prepare business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Collaboration

Communication

Executive storytelling

Influencing without authority

Cross-functional leadership

Data/market analysis

Financial modeling

Presentation skills

Ambiguity tolerance

Growth strategy

Industry knowledge

Strategic planning

Project management

Global matrix leadership

People/stakeholder management

Education

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

Masters degree

Tools

Keynote

Presentation software

Job description

Title: Strategy Planner

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 7 months contract

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, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a Strategy Planner to help shape the future of the Kids Business and youth sports. This role partners closely with the Kids Leadership team to identify strategic priorities, define long-term growth opportunities, and translate insights into actions that drive athlete*, consumer, marketplace, and business impact. The ideal candidate is an exceptional strategic thinker, problem solver, and collaborator who thrives in ambiguity and is energized by helping leaders make critical decisions. This person will bring a balance of analytical rigor, business acumen, and communication excellence to influence the future direction of one ofour most important and visible dimensions. 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 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

As a Kids Strategy Planner, you will support the Kids Leadership team, partnering heavily with Finance, Insights & Analytics, & other cross-functional teams, help lead the strategic planning process, develop strategic recommendations, and serve as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders on the most important opportunities and challenges facing the business. You will independently lead cross-functional teams and strategic initiatives through three primary bodies of work:

Building Integrated Growth Plans: Drive integrated actions that help us win with Kids and Empowering Adults while delivering sustainable growth. Partner with leaders to answer complex strategic questions, align and mobilize cross-functional teams around shared priorities, and translate long-term strategies into actionable plans that accelerate business and organizational impact.

Developing Future Strategies: Identify and shape Kids next growth opportunities. Through long-range planning and strategic exploration, develop frameworks, insights, and recommendations that help leaders evaluate emerging trends, unlock new growth vectors, and make informed choices about where Nike should invest for the future.

Assessing Impact: Measure progress against strategic priorities and help leaders focus resources on the highest-impact opportunities. Diagnose performance, identify key learnings, develop KPIs, and communicate clear recommendations that strengthen decision-making, improve execution, and drive continuous improvement over time.

WHAT YOU BRING TO NIKE

• 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
• 7+ years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, business operations, business development, corporate development, or a related field
• 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
• Proven success influencing cross-functional teams and stakeholders without direct authority
• Consistent track record of pulling together diverse individuals with different goals and facilitating productive discussions
• Strong understanding of growth strategy, business performance, and value creation within consumer-facing industries
• Experience in apparel, footwear, retail, consumer products, sports, or adjacent industries preferred
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to create structure from ambiguity and synthesize large amounts of information into actionable insights
• Outstanding communication and written / verbal storytelling capabilities, with the ability to simplify complexity and influence executive audiences
• Bias towards action and comfortable working in ambiguity, and ability to work through complexity and adversity
• Advanced presentation and business communication skills, including proficiency with Keynote and other presentation tools
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational pragmatism and execution focus
• Strong interpersonal skills with a track record of building trust and credibility across diverse teams and leadership levels
• Curiosity, demonstrated learning agility, and a growth mindset
• Passion for sport, athletes, consumers, and products a plus
• Business development, quantitative & qualitative acumen
• Strategic planning
• Project management in a cross-functional, global matrix environment
• Data/market analysis and financial modeling