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. WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR Materials are critical to product excellence and supply chain performance.

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You will connect material development to business impact by ensuring source options are not only developed and commercialized, but also elevate supply base capabilities and ensure successful integration into Nike's manufacturing ecosystem.

The ideal candidate combines strong material development expertise with strategic thinking, operational discipline, and the ability to influence across a complex network of internal and external partners. You are skilled at navigating ambiguity, leveraging data and analytics, aligning diverse stakeholders, driving organizational change, and building the capabilities required to scale new solutions across the business. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON You will lead the Footwear MSO team in delivering material source options that enable supply chain resilience, localization, capacity flexibility, cost competitiveness, and adoption at scale. Alongside your team, you will oversee the end-to-end development and commercialization of material source options, ensuring solutions meet Nike's expectations for quality, cosmetics, performance, cost, and commercial viability.

You will help prioritize work against business needs, ensure healthy execution of seasonal and long-range objectives, and drive alignment across stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes.

You will partner closely with Sourcing, Product Creation, Costing, Product Integrity, and Supply Chain teams to align priorities, evolve processes, and ensure successful adoption of approved source options.

You will work directly with material suppliers and Footwear manufacturing partners to strengthen capabilities, improve development performance, resolve challenges, and scale solutions that meet Nike's evolving business needs.

You will also help evolve the MSO ways-of-working by improving operational rigor, governance, communication practices, calendar, tool utilization, data integrity, and cross-functional processes that enable the function to scale effectively. Through leadership and coaching, you will develop a high-performing team capable of delivering both immediate business needs and long-term organizational priorities. WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH This role reports to the Director, Footwear Material Source Options (MSO) and Material Manufacturing Engineering (MME) and manages a team of Footwear Material