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.
The Materials Sourcing team sits within the Material Supply Chain (MatSC) organization. The Materials Sourcing team shapes the source base of materials suppliers that manufacture the thousands of materials within Nike’s Footwear supply chain. The team is comprised of strategic thinkers who advance our mission of driving outsized opportunity across materials lead-time, cost, quality, and sustainability while integrating strategy and mitigating risk of source base disruption.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for a strategic and self-starting individual to stand-up new sourcing strategies for footwear materials, driving collaboration with internal and external teams. Materials are critical to Nike and there’s a need for a cohesive strategy across source base, cost, resiliency, risk, and sustainability. The ideal candidate will be a team player, someone who is comfortable navigating ambiguity and working cross-functionally, and able to communicate strategy to both technical teams as well as senior leadership. This person will be comfortable thinking outside the box and will work collaboratively to achieve results.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
As part of the Footwear Material Sourcing team, you will be the lead creating and adapting sourcing strategies that serve a wide range of goals across product excellence, profitability, delivery, resiliency, and sustainability. You will partner closely with Product Creation teams and Material Supply Chain teams to develop and refine strategy, and ensure alignment across the Nike organization. You will drive strategic supply chain projects to create a more responsive, responsible, resilient, and efficient materials supply chain, including country-level localization priorities. You will develop and deploy material sourcing strategies to scale innovation into inline products, including supplier evaluation and scalability assessment, leveraging cross-functional support for critical inputs such as material forecast, vendor capacity, costing and commercial agreements.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will partner closely with:
Materials Supply Chain teammates including Materials Sourcing, Materials Costing, Materials Planning, Materials Manufacturing, and Partner Management
Footwear Material Development
T1 Footwear Sourcing
Innovation teams to understand the landscape of what’s coming next in materials for Nike
Sustainability to support achieving Nike’s FY30 sustainability targets
Global Supply Planning
External Material Vendors
WHAT YOU BRING
Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
7+ years of Sourcing, Costing, Manufacturing, or relevant experience in Materials
Strong material expertise in the Footwear industry required
Great knowledge of material suppliers landscape, with technical manufacturing expertise
Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to go the extra mile to find solutions
Must be comfortable with navigating ambiguity, and have the ability to navigate through a complicated stakeholder matrix to achieve results and drive strategic decision-making
A team player to work collaboratively cross-functionally, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong growth mindset
Advanced MS Excel and MS PowerPoint skills
Cultural awareness and a champion for diversity, inclusion, and belonging
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management or equivalent education/experience
- 7+ years of Sourcing, Costing, Manufacturing, or relevant experience in Materials
- Strong material expertise in the Footwear industry
- Advanced MS Excel and MS PowerPoint skills
Nike Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nike and has not been reviewed or approved by Nike.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is complemented by options such as a Mega Backdoor Roth and deferred compensation for eligible earners. Financial coaching and structured savings programs support long-term financial security.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a stock discount sits alongside broad-based equity vehicles like RSUs and non-qualified stock options. These avenues expand wealth-building opportunities beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes maternity and paternity time, recently expanded in the U.S. to 16 weeks and extended to part-time retail teammates. Additional supports include childcare assistance at select locations and family-building benefits such as fertility, surrogacy, and adoption.
Nike Insights
What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., we innovate to serve athletes*. Every teammate - from coder to creator - plays a role in making these athletes’ dreams real. Our tech, data, and digital teams push limits every day, building the future of sport and the tools that drive it. Here, curiosity is fuel. Innovation is the game plan. Different perspectives keep us on the offense. You’ll solve challenges worth tackling, grow fast and belong to a team that backs you to do the right thing. Bring your drive. Bring your bold. Let’s move the world, together. Take your first step at nike.com/careers * If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
Why Work With Us
At NIKE, Inc., your dedication fuels the future of sport. There is a sense of pride that comes from representing an iconic brand and shaping its future. Here, we treat every day as a new opportunity to push boundaries, ask tough questions and share whole-hearted convictions. We are a team – united by the belief that anything is possible.
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