Product Line Manager – NWSLHybrid

Title: Product Line Manager – NWSL 

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 7 months contract

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.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We’re looking for an experienced and seasoned Product Line Manager for our NWSL Apparel business. This role will partner with the overall apparel product creation team, and drive process and strategy for the NWSL.

We are looking for an indiviual that can establish, maintain, and cultivate key relationships with the teams, the league, and recognize consumer and competitive trends in key North American markets. The ideal candidate will be able to leverage athlete, consumer, and marketplace insights and translate them in impact product narratives that resonate at a local level. This candidate will lead and collaborate with a product team to deliver and showcase the most innovative and high-performance product in the industry for athletes as well as deliver a compelling retail assortment for consumers for the league’s major moments. Analysis of current business (including bookings and sell-through by channel, country, GEO, style and color, etc.) will be expected.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you'll be responsible for understanding the consumer, analyzing product and competitive trends in the team markets. You'll apply expert understanding of the product creation, delivery and pricing needs of consumers, key markets and channels to decision making. You'll be responsible for creating and communicating a vision for product Categories, driven through strong end-in-mind [story telling] and consumer-right product strategies. You'll also serve as the business spokesperson at key product creation meetings. You'll direct the team agreement of the product line, costing, and pricing needs of consumers, key markets and channels. You'll drive the execution of key initiatives. You'll be responsible for leading the product creation process through key interaction with product and graphic design, materials, tech design, merchandising, development and operations. You'll be responsible for overseeing or creating presentations to sell-in the product. You'll be responsible for line planning and briefing to the appropriate style/SKU level to optimize productivity, margin and revenue. In addition, you'll also develop, maintain and foster key relationships between the league, clubs, and Nike Sports Marketing.

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH?

This role will work intimately with the NWSL Product Lead, Design, Tech Development, Merchandising, Operations, and Sports Marketing teams to manage the product creation cycle.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field
• 2 years' additional relevant experience in lieu of degree
• 5 years' experience in relevant product-related roles
• Expert Product Management and Merchandising skills and expert understanding of the product process
• Strong business orientation, analytical aptitude, and retail math
• Strong business management experience
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including ability to motivate, lead, negotiate and influence
• Ability to travel up to 10% of time
• Have a global sense of awareness. (Knowledge of current world events. Respect and appreciation for other cultures)
• Experience with Keynote, Adobe Suite, PowerPoint and Excel
• Deep knowledge and understanding of athletes, marketplace and consumer landscape.
• A passion or interest in Global Football (Soccer) is a plus