AddressBecome 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.
The first spark of a product idea sets the NIKE, Inc. Product team into motion. The team of developers, testers, engineers, designers and managers obsess over Nike’s iconic silhouettes and create groundbreaking new styles. They collaborate, ideate and refine products’ construction, fit and materials. They maintain a keen understanding of consumer and market trends. They skillfully operate at the intersection of buyer needs, technical feasibility and business objectives. And they work lockstep with Merchandising, Design, Manufacturing and others to produce the final result: products that reflect the soul of sport and inspire athletes to reach new levels of performance.
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, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
We are hiring for two (2) Expert PLMs:
1. Nike Basketball is one of the key ignition points of the brand. Our offense ensures our most discerning and influential consumers find and fall in love with new ideas from Nike Basketball by building authentic connections with culture and community, and driving excitement for new products and innovations.
**Nike Basketball Innovation Role:**
Lebron James is one of the greatest athletes to ever play the game. This role is an opportunity to build a new product ecosystem that leverages performance, storytelling, and creative solutions to maintain relevance with our basketball-obsessed consumer.
*Partners: Athlete, Product & Marketplace
**Nike Basketball Expert PLM Focus:**
Our mission is to build future of the Lebron performance footwear line with a deep-rooted connectivity with basketball culture. This role will look to identify new opportunities to energize Nike Basketball footwear through the nuance of high performance and consumer right expression. As a member of this team, you will work to identify new Marketplace opportunities and build new products from initial concept and briefing to realization and launch.
**Nike Basketball Team:**
As an Expert Footwear Product Line Manager within the Nike Basketball Team, you will work cross-functionally with a team of experts across: Merchandising, Marketplace, Design, Product Creation, Marketing & Planning, with a common goal to build and land cohesive and inspirational product concepts centered around Lebron James.
2. The Energy offense ensures our most discerning and influential consumers find and fall in love with new ideas from Nike, by building authentic connections with culture and community & driving energy for new products and innovation.
_RNWY-Energy role: To create a new Nike ecosystem that leverages style and fashion -led partners* to gain and maintain relevance with our style obsessed consumer.
*Partners: People, Product & Marketplace - Co-Creation Collaborators, Ambassadors for seeding and activations, style driven Retailers
_RNWY-Energy Focus: Be the Ignition point to build future style culture that covers Performance and Lifestyle, as well as identify new opportunities to energize Nike footwear through the nuance of high Fashion and style. As a member of this team, you will work to identify Collaborators, Ambassadors and Quick-strike opportunities and build new products from initial concept and briefing to realization and launch.
_RNWY-Energy team: As a Footwear Product Line manager, within the RNWY-Energy team, you will work cross functionally as a “squad”, with a team of experts across Apparel, Merchandizing, Marketplace, Design, Product Creation, Marketing & Planning, with a common goal, to build and land cohesive and inspirational product concepts and capsules that capture the hearts and minds of our consumer and launch the future franchises of tomorrow.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
An ideal Expert PLM is a collaborative teammate with a history of excellence, strong problem-solving skills, and phenomenal attention to detail. You will need strong organizational skills, a drive for crafting outstanding products and the ability to learn, adapt, and lead quickly. A passion for serving our consumers is a requirement! We are looking for someone who will partner effectively with diverse teams around the globe and across the Nike value chains.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
These roles will lead and own all aspects of the product creation process.
This includes ensuring profitability while delivering fresh solutions to solve our consumers’ needs. You will work with the cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and drive the offense. You will also collaborate with merchandising, design, development, and sourcing on the footwear creation process from line planning through final product approval. You will research our product, consumer, and marketplace, manage product creation workflow and data, maintain product tools, and effectively collaborate across functional partners. You will deliver on key dates and hold yourself accountable to be a great teammate.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will work closely with your product management cross-gender teammates and global merchandising, design, development, sourcing, and marketing teams to manage the product creation and advise our go-to-market processes.
You will also partner with the Consumer Insights team as needed to ensure alignment across insight gathering and implementing it into the creation process.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Retail Merchandising, or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 8+ years experience in product creation, merchandising, and brand marketing
- Influencing skills. Ability to drive vision and strategy across functions while respecting the balance of competing interests
- Proven experience translating a footwear vision into a multi-year line plan.
- Demonstrated line planning skills to meet financial and critical metric goals
- Solid understanding of Footwear construction and story-telling
- Demonstrated leadership capability, including the ability to motivate and mentor others
- Innovative in thought with a proven track record of applying vision to drive concepts to new space
- Optimism. Dedication to bring hopefulness and confidence about the future.
- Passion for sneakers and the culture of the Athletic Footwear Industry
- Curiosity. Possess a strong desire to learn about new consumers, ideas, and opportunities.
- Proven ability to capture consumer insights and translate them into compelling product solutions
- Strong eye for business with a proven record for achieving sustainable growth
- process
- Strong presentation and interpersonal communication skills
- Attention to detail and deadlines
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time, including internationally.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
