MANAGER ANALYTICS CAPABILITIES

Overview

Working in Nike's Analytics Capabilities team will be rewarding, it will be challenging, and it will most definitely not be just another job. You'll be an ambassador of the Nike brand -- everything we stand for: drive, determination, the unyielding commitment to excellence, these all will be a part of your everyday experience. We're committed to making every consumer's experience a rewarding one, and as a member of our analytics team, your contributions will be a big part of our success.

As the Manager, Analytics Capabilities you will help the team make decisions that will drive performance, directly leading to the accomplishment of annual goals. You will support leadership to help drive insights and will be the point person on understanding the business. 

You must be a self-starter, flexible thinker, and outstanding communicator who is comfortable learning quickly and connecting the dots between disparate methodologies. You will need those skills as you work across multiple functions and categories within Nike’s matrixed organization. Success will depend on your ability to quickly form both professional and personal relationships with colleagues and drive to rigorous, actionable, user-friendly deliverables.

Overall, we are looking for someone who is passionate about working with numbers, who is technical but also has strong business acumen. The candidate should be self-driven, proactive and must show the capacity to manage several concurrent tracks of work. Superb teamwork skills are essential as is to communicate complicated ideas and conclusions in simple business terms. 


Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Marketing, Psychology, Statistics, or a related field (an additional 2 years of experience in lieu of a degree). MS/MBA preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience with an emphasis on business reporting and analytics required. 
- Strong technical and analytical skillset required. Proficient in data wrangling and cleansing, and statistical analysis.
- Ability to understand and inform methodologies for analytical modeling, optimization, simulation, and deeper statistical analysis.
- Proven ability to sift through data, identify critical information, develop hypotheses, apply relevant techniques, and perform rigorous analyses quickly and consistently. 
- Experience, interest, and adaptability to working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to communicate complex concepts to senior and business audiences.
- Strong project management experience managing multiple project streams and delivering results across cross-functional teams. Propensity for thinking through projects in a process-oriented manner.
- Expert skill level in Excel and ideally some familiarity with either SQL, R, SAS, or Python. Tableau and familiarity with big data environments is preferred, but not required.
- Demonstrated ability to learn new tools quickly and independently. 
- Demonstrated ability to use data to influence decision making. 
- Ability to develop strong partnerships across a multi-layered organization required.
- Experience in developing an understanding of customers, competitors, and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred.