Senior Director, NIKE Stores Analytics and Research

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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 Senior Director, NIKE Stores Analytics and Research will be responsible for the Insights vision, roadmap and delivery within the NIKE Stores organization. Alongside developing and applying best-in-class mixed-discipline analytics and research methodologies to support and drive the stores growth agenda. You will be responsible for bringing the wider NIKE consumer data offense to the table to help identify, measure and prioritize work into the key drivers of growth within the stores domain. This person will work with partners across both Global and geo Consumer Insights and our broader product, engineering and technology teams to deliver end-to-end capabilities, frameworks and ways of working to drive the next era of insights growth and business acceleration at NIKE.

In this role, you will be responsible for the growth and development of a high preforming organization with varied skills and focal disciplines across business analytics, behavioral analytics, data science, data engineering, applied primary research, human centered design, VOC and more. The future of insights at NIKE is to proactively bring these varied disciplines to the table as one combined offense in a manner which make them greater than the sum of their parts – enabling and inspiring this way of working will be your challenge.

You will have a responsibility for driving a global and geo model of collaboration to institute consistent standard processes, methodologies and shared findings. From consumer to product to marketing this role will have impact across all the commercial and consumer drivers. These drivers are needed to enable and drive a successful execution against an aggressive stores growth plan. 

To do this, we are seeking an exceptional candidate with a true business centric mind-set, industry-leading experience in the consumer analytics space and a track record of insights delivery within the retail domain. Working at Nike in this time of growth and dynamic strategic intent is a unique opportunity! We are looking for a professional who is passionate about the Nike brand, proactive, and prospers while working at the intersection of data and business.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Set team strategy, roadmap, and analytics priorities to enable development and execution of innovative solutions that facilitate Nike’s stores growth offense

•  Coordinate across Global and Geo-based teams of stores analytics professionals to ensure Nike’s most complex strategic, operational and commercial objectives related to the stores acceleration are met – across concepts, product and consumer dimensions

•  Direct development of models that help us deeply understand and measure the impact of strategies on end-consumer engagement and commerce behaviors

•  Own relationships with diverse business partners to understand current and anticipate future customer and business needs, understand requirements and define relevant strategic questions

•  Ensure continual monitoring of the Nike value chain and external environment to challenge assumptions around growth expectations and our comparable “success”

•  Partner across Insights and Technology organizations at Nike to help accelerate and enhance data capabilities

•  Build, lead, mentor, and inspire your team; performance coaching, goal setting and development potential

REQUIREMENTS:

•  Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

-  10+ Years in Insights / Application with a focus on consumer and retail domains

•  Track record of collaboration and experience working directly with partners to define and activate a measurement strategy

•  Knowledge of standard methodologies & current trends in service execution across physical/digital retail experiences

•  Knowledge of typical big data stack components, how to manage these effectively and how to evolve work throughout the different layers of the stack from foundational data ingestion and modeling all the way through to front end partner facing applications.

•  Demonstratable budgetary experience

•  Passion for understanding consumer needs coupled with ability to use analytics to measure / capture behaviors and find opportunities to accelerate growth

•  Ability to translate business strategy -> data needs -> data strategy -> project execution

•  International / multi-market retail experience

•  Demonstrable experience building positive working relationships and working successfully in multi-functional teams with varied levels of understanding of analytics

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.