Principal Product Director - Supply Chain Data Science & Network Modeling (Commercial Analytics)

Key Skills

Java Programming, Design of Experiment, Python Programming, SQL, Scrum Agile Methodology, Kanban, Blockchain Technology, Supply Chain Management, Lean Six Sigma, Networking technologies

Job Description

This is an opportunity to work within Nike’s end-to-end Supply Chain Commercial Analytics team to design and develop analytics products to optimize the sourcing, manufacture, and movement of product across our complex global supply chain network. Nike delivers over 1.4B units globally from over 500 factories to over 70 distribution centers. Our analytics help operations balance speed, service, quality, sustainability, cost and convenience to serve our ecommerce consumers, 1000’s of stores, and wholesalers. We have a rapidly growing Commercial Analytics team in this space, including in 2019, NIKE acquired Celect, a Boston-based company founded out of MIT, passionate about predictive analytics and optimization solutions. This is an opportunity to work with that team to lead NIKE through a digital transformation!

As a Principal Product Director within the Consumer Analytics organization, you will play a lead role on a team of cross-functional partners and analytics professionals to design Nike’s supply chain network of the future. You will identify and scope new opportunities and execute high-impact projects to enable Nike’s mission to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

• If you have a body, you’re an athlete!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager with a technical background who has experience managing and solving complex problems. Candidates should enjoy crafting and selling a vision, gathering requirements from customers, and working with the technical teams to break down and prioritize work to deliver solutions in an incremental and iterative fashion. We're looking for someone with a proven track record demonstrating measurable business impact who can thrive in ambiguous situations while being a true teammate. We value a culture that is collaborative, academic, intellectually curious, fun, open, and diverse.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

As a Principal Product Director, you will be a leader driving the strategy, roadmap, and prioritization within a squad of Data Scientists, Supply Chain Modelers, Data Engineers, and Data Analysts. You will gather requirements from internal partners within Nike to define and prioritize work that allow us to build world-class analytic based products. Products could support either strategic business decisions (e.g., materials sourcing strategy) to operational business decisions (e.g., container leading sequencing) leveraging Machine Learning, Simulation, Supply Chain Modeling, and Optimization to drive insights and improved performance across cost, sustainability, quality, consumer convenience and service metrics. You will monitor and understand the competitive landscape to ensure our products are sustainable and enable Nike to better serve our consumers in an ever-changing environment.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will lead a squad of Data Scientists, Supply Chain Modelers, Data Engineers, and Data Analysts within the Commercial Analytics organization to produce Machine Learning, Simulation, Supply Chain Modeling, and Optimization solutions that aid operational decision making or inform strategic future supply chain network design. As the Principal Product Director, you will be responsible to set the vision and roadmap for a portfolio of products critical to Nike’s success as it accelerates its ability to provide customers with the right products when and where they want them globally.

This is a highly visible position and will require you to collaborate with teams across the company including leadership in Product Management, Technology, UX, and Nike’s end-to-end supply chain.

WHAT YOU BRING TO NIKE?

• Bachelor’s and/or Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or an equivalent field; or equivalent combination of education and experience and training. 
• 8+ years of professional experience in product management, quantitative analysis, and/or or software development, preferably in Supply Chain, Network Design, or Operations
• Demonstrated experience managing an Analytics-based product, with Data Science experience a plus.
• Knowledge of sourcing, manufacturing, planning, allocation, transportation, and operational processes a plus.
• Outstanding written/oral, organizational, analytical abilities, and attention to detail.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams, enabling success by removing obstacles and developing strategic relationships throughout the business.
• Proven track record being a Product advocate; can describe the Product, its value, how it works, how it is adopted, speak to upcoming changes and tailor the information to the audience.
• Ability to prioritize competing needs and make decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Experience utilizing both qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis techniques to prove business value.
• In-depth understanding of technology systems and the ecosystem the team works in to help team in overcoming roadblocks.
• Experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum, LEAN, Kanban.

This role will be based at Nike’s World Headquarters in Beaverton, OR.