Senior Analyst, Performance Management

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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 NIKE, Inc. Supply Chain team is the engine that propels product around the world. Supply Chain experts ensure that every year, almost a billion units of footwear, apparel and equipment arrive at the right place, at the right time. To ensure this complex job goes off without a hitch, Supply Chain teams work with a network of more than 50 distribution centers, thousands of accounts, and more than 100,000 retail stores worldwide - making the impossible happen every single day.

Our world-class North America Transportation & Trade team innovates and partners to deliver products to athletes* because we believe sport makes the world a better place. The Transportation Insights & Analytics team drives performance management, long-term forecasting, and case development to ensure that we win now while also enabling Nike's Digital First Supply Chain at Scale.

Our savvy reporting and analytics pros use market-leading tools and data automation to make a positive impact that's felt across the business. If you're an analytics leader who can work on autonomous teams, integrate the latest practices with your approach, simplify complex decisions by providing flexible, fast, and sustainable decision-making solutions, then you'll be very successful on the Analytics Team!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

We need an analytical-minded, transportation-savvy Senior Analyst to join our Insights & Analytics organization, specifically the Performance Management team. You are an extraordinary, driven teammate with a curiosity for all things data, and business. While you rely on data to guide you, you love to think creatively to solve problems. You understand how data is produced and used in a business environment, as well as how advanced statistical analysis and data science concepts can be applied to business problems. You understand how to solve transportation problems, deliver insights, and drive recommendations. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, and you are excited by the challenge of building something from the ground up. You ask questions, are continually learning as well as finding opportunities to share knowledge with others. You are a strong communicator who is endlessly curious and enjoys storytelling through data, takes pride in hard work and is committed to rapidly advancing your knowledge and expertise.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON:

The Senior Analyst (Transportation Insights & Analytics - Performance Management) is responsible for providing valuable insights and creating and analyzing End to End Transportation Data within the North America (NA) geo. This includes creating metrics, dashboards/visuals, and data products to sustainably educate and enable our business partners to make data-based decisions. This role is essential to ensuring that North America Transportation uses analytics to optimize marketplace service and efficiency and supports the Digital First Supply Chain strategy.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH:

The Senior Analyst partners closely with other NA Trade & Transportation (T&T) teams to provide access to key operational metrics, supports sourcing events, and works closely with T&T capability development organization and cross-functional peers to ensure new capabilities align to Nike's core values.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive analysis of financial and operational performance data (e.g. cost, service, speed) to identify key insights and opportunities to improve the end-to-end transportation network (e.g. carrier strategy, speed to market, port mixture, transportation flows, etc.)
• Design, build, and apply visual tools based on partner requirements to help provide insights to our operational partners
• Support capability development through success criteria tracking to ensure benefits are robust and mutually exclusive across business segments
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis to support strategic top-to-top discussions with both key internal and external partners (e.g strategic customers, carriers/vendors, and internal leadership)
• Develop and maintain centralized Transportation-focused data architecture for consumption and reporting layers
• Create and automate reporting and insights at scale that informs and influences business decisions
• Assist with strengthening Nike T&T's Performance Management Strategy allowing full visibility to our core metrics
• Provide detailed cost metrics to ensure we're using the right carrier in the right locations within our transportation network

WHAT YOU BRING: Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Computer Science, Engineering, or combination of relevant education, experience, and training
• 5+ years of progressive analytics experience in the field of operations and logistics
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with an interest in data-focused storytelling
• Strong understanding and experience with common coding languages and ETL applications (i.e. SQL, Python, R, Alteryx)
• Strong understanding and experience building visualization in Tableau or PowerBI
• Descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics experience with complex, unrefined data using a variety of analytical and statistical toolsets.
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis to pinpoint variances, and recommend solutions to avoid variances in the future
• Experience managing multiple analytics projects and stakeholders in a fast moving, results-driven business environment
• Logistics financial competence and can manage competing priorities with limited supervision
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced and ambiguous environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Transportation analytics experiences
• Consulting or Finance experience
• Experience with data architecture and data pipelines
• Experience with agile development methodologies

ENTRYLEADER: Be Empowered to Grow within Nike and Create the Future

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.