Lead, Footwear and Apparel Business Integration – Local Creation (Global Express Lane)

Local Creation is Nike’s local creation engine – designed to deliver product with speed, relevance, and cultural authenticity. Business Integration enables Local Creation to operate as a connected system by aligning strategy, people, processes, and tools across engines, brands, and geographies.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a detail-oriented, proactive, and resourceful activator to drive central Local Creation Integration workstreams. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys complex, cross-functional work, brings structure to ambiguity, and can move seamlessly between strategy and execution.

A Local Creation Integration Lead candidate should be able to:

• Lead with a future forward, operational mentality
• Think strategically and deliver tactically
• Exhibit product creation process experience as well as the ability to lead and execute projects across multiple functions
• Demonstrate creative problem-solving skills
• Lead work independently while also supporting broader strategic priorities in partnership with others
• Possess strong communication skills, including listening skills and the ability to facilitate conversations, build trust, gain alignment, and drive decisions across a variety of teams, at all levels of the organization

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

In this central role, you will help shape and run how Local Creation operates day to day, while also supporting how it evolves for the future. You will help define, implement, and improve processes, tools, and ways of working, supporting Local Creation initiatives in partnership with Global, Geo, and Functional teams to bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex, cross-functional efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

Enable Business Integration:

• Translate strategy into clear operating plans, workflows, and execution support
• Partner closely with Product Management, Design, Development, Merchandising, and other Integration teammates
• Ensure progress, risks, and next steps are visible and understood
• Build clear status updates, decks, and materials

Lead Seasonal Workstreams:

• Own and manage end to end operational execution for assigned seasonal initiatives
• Outline and coordinate timelines, milestones, and dependencies across functions
• Facilitate alignment, resolve issues, and keep work moving forward

Improve Ways of Working:

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, transform, or improve product creation processes and tools
• Support adoption through documentation, training, and communication
• Build and implement new tools and capabilities to move teams into the future
• Drive and deliver projects against key strategies and priorities

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

On this team, building trust with our teammates and business partners is critical, so you must possess a strong, client-focused approach to the work. You will report to the Local Creation Business Integration Director and work closely with geography and global Business, Design, and Merch Integration teammates and as well as business partners within the Footwear and Apparel Organization across Product Management, Development, Design, and Merchandising. As a Team, we value an entrepreneurial approach, open collaboration, and clever problem solving to support emerging business needs.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• 3+ Years experience in product creation, operations, project or event management, or a related function preferred
• Proficient in Keynote, PowerPoint, Miro and experience with project management software such as SmartSheets or Air Table (strongly preferred).
• Exemplify acute attention to detail and demonstrate high level of organization to manage concurrent work streams.
• Highly organized with the ability to simplify a complex landscape to drive easy execution
• Project management experience, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams supporting large scale change across an organization.
• Ability to balance multiple time-bound projects while maintaining attention to detail.

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.