
Lead Product Line Manager – North America Express Lane Apparel
Nike
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Beaverton • New York, Oregon • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $106,500 - $216,700 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- You will work daily with Design, Development, and Merchandising teams to create compelling apparel collections seasonally.
- You will work closely with Consumer Insights, Finance, and Planning to ensure that product collections are consumer-right and meet target margin.
- You will continually improve our process to deliver superior product at speed, partnering with Operations to optimize our end-to-end creation model.
- You will be responsible for all Product Line Management deliverables.
- You will lead your cross-functional team in executing against the NAEL Apparel strategy and seasonal product briefs.
- You will create clear and compelling sell-in tools to build trust and excitement with internal and external stakeholders.
- You will cultivate a deep understanding of the Nike Global Product strategy and maintain highly productive working relationships with partners across the enterprise.
- You will regularly collect consumer and marketplace insights and disseminate key findings to your cross-functional teams.
- You will craft consumer-right product briefs and lead the end-to-end product creation process.
- You will ensure projects are completed on time, on budget, and in-line with enterprise strategy.
- You will work closely with your triad team each week to deliver against product creation milestones.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in design, merchandising or related field.
- Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- A minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience.
- Strong product creation and intuition for business.
- Creativity and passion for product, lifestyle fashion, sport, color and style.
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize, organize, and multitask in a flexible, fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical abilities.
- An understanding of apparel product construction and sourcing process.
- Ability to lead and influence a team and enable collaborative working relationships.
- Attention to detail and deadlines.
- Necessary Skills/Tools: Visual Tool Creation (Powerpoint/Keynote/Miro), Excel Skills, Retail Math, Smartsheets.
- Domestic and international travel (limited Int’l) required (±15% of time).
Benefits
- Information about benefits can be found here.
- accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.
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Soft skills
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