Lead Retail Activation Category Procurement jobs at Nike in China, Shanghai

Who You Are:
• Skills & Experience:
• Proven experience in project management and retail production within
agencies or brands.
• Expertise in managing complex timelines, budgets, and spacial design
deliverables.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a proven team player with leadership
capabilities.
• Persona:
• Passionate, always learning, and evolving with trends in creativity.
• Exceptionally organized, a natural problem-solver, and comfortable
under pressure
• A master collaborator who inspires and motivates direct teams and
external spacial production crew.
• Language:
• Proficient in both Chinese and English (verbal & written).

What We Work On:
• End-to-End Retail Creative Production Management:
• Manage Retail / Experience production from planning to final asset
delivery, ensuring creativity is at the forefront.
• Oversee executions across various physical and digital mediums.
• Creative Thought Partnership:
• Collaborate closely with Nike's retail/ In real life creative team to drive
the creative production process consistently.
• Network and commission work from a broad network of agencies and
creative individuals.
• Continuously seek new talents and partners to enhance creative
outputs.
• Commission and manage multiple creative partners, from renowned
agencies to emerging talents.
• Facilitate creative partner outreach, negotiations, budget management,
and contract execution.
Who You Work With:
• Partner daily with Nike's internal retail / In retail life creative team, including
designers, art directors, and creative leaders and your border production
team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Marketing Retail Brands,
Finance, Legal, BA, Procurement by project basis.

What You Bring to Nike:
• Passion for creativety, sports and culture
• A wealth of experience in project management or retail production for
agencies or brand
• Future-forward thinker with a solution-oriented mindset and entrepreneurial
spirit.
• Ability to thrive in a matrix envrioment with multiple business functions and
senior sakehoders, cutting through the noise to challnege the business
priorities and deliver the best creative
• Knowing when and how to drive solutions via speak up
• Commitment to staying up-to-date with current and future creative
technologies and innovations.
• Willingness to travel 10-20% of the time.

What you will work on

• Support and partner with the Sr. Creative Director and Design Director to create seasonal and long-term vision, strategic and tactical direction, and design continuity.

• Support a design process of clear ideation focusing on exploration of color, materiality, texture, spacing, proportion, scale and use of the environment.

• Collaborate with producers, design counterparts (both Global and Geo), internal partners (Retail Brand, City Brand, Retail Concept, etc.) and external partners to ensure feasibility of designs and functional needs are met.

• Ensure project goals and priorities align with Nike Retail Brand, City Brand and business strategies.

• Develop presentation materials that effectively communicate design concepts to all levels of leadership and partners.

• Constantly seek new and innovative ways to tell stories through graphics, styling, lighting, sculpture, photography, video, animation and more.

• Contribute to education and inspiration, sharing knowledge and exposure to current and future trends influencing the innovation of consumer experiences and technology.

• Foster team work and lead the team to complete task and meet expectation.

• You may travel 10-20% of the time.

Who You Will Work With

Under the direction of a Sr. Creative Director and a Design Director manager, and in partnership with operation and producers, and cross-functional peers, you will realize innovative, original retail and in real life experience. You will collaborate with internal and external design teams to complete multiple projects and ensure the creative intent, design results, timelines and budgets are met.

What You Bring

• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive, technically sophisticated design experience in interior design, experiential design or brand design and a demonstrated ability to apply these skills in ways that elevate brand excellence.

• Bachelors/master’s degree in graphic design, architecture, industrial design, environmental design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Adept at applying and performing design skills including concepting, ideation, drawing/sketching, typography, color theory, texture, spatial design in scale, visual presentation development and space planning layouts.

• Strong knowledge of current trends in color, graphic design, art, photography, architecture and experience design — and their application to the sport industry.

• Strong knowledge of production design, fabrication, materiality, and emerging manufacturing trends.

• Strategic thinking and adept at connecting the dots across multiple approaches and outputs.

• Proven ability to manage ambiguity and create compelling solutions when the way forward is not always clear.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to present new concepts and designs to small and large groups, including presenting to executive leaders and external partners.

• Proven ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes.

What you will work on

• Support and partner with the Sr. Creative Director and Design Director to create seasonal and long-term vision, strategic and tactical direction, and design continuity.

• Support a design process of clear ideation focusing on exploration of color, materiality, texture, spacing, proportion, scale and use of the environment.

• Collaborate with producers, design counterparts (both Global and Geo), internal partners (Retail Brand, City Brand, Retail Concept, etc.) and external partners to ensure feasibility of designs and functional needs are met.

• Ensure project goals and priorities align with Nike Retail Brand, City Brand and business strategies.

• Develop presentation materials that effectively communicate design concepts to all levels of leadership and partners.

• Constantly seek new and innovative ways to tell stories through graphics, styling, lighting, sculpture, photography, video, animation and more.

• Contribute to education and inspiration, sharing knowledge and exposure to current and future trends influencing the innovation of consumer experiences and technology.

• Foster team work and lead the team to complete task and meet expectation.

• You may travel 10-20% of the time.

Who You Will Work With

Under the direction of a Sr. Creative Director and a Design Director manager, and in partnership with operation and producers, and cross-functional peers, you will realize innovative, original retail and in real life experience. You will collaborate with internal and external design teams to complete multiple projects and ensure the creative intent, design results, timelines and budgets are met.

What You Bring

• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive, technically sophisticated design experience in interior design, experiential design or brand design and a demonstrated ability to apply these skills in ways that elevate brand excellence.

• Bachelors/master’s degree in graphic design, architecture, industrial design, environmental design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Adept at applying and performing design skills including concepting, ideation, drawing/sketching, typography, color theory, texture, spatial design in scale, visual presentation development and space planning layouts.

• Strong knowledge of current trends in color, graphic design, art, photography, architecture and experience design — and their application to the sport industry.

• Strong knowledge of production design, fabrication, materiality, and emerging manufacturing trends.

• Strategic thinking and adept at connecting the dots across multiple approaches and outputs.

• Proven ability to manage ambiguity and create compelling solutions when the way forward is not always clear.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to present new concepts and designs to small and large groups, including presenting to executive leaders and external partners.

• Proven ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes.

You will deliver results with clarity and accountability, demonstrating our shared purpose and commitments. We will think big, break down barriers, innovate and implement in service of Runners.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

This role is responsible for supporting the vision for Nike Men’s and Kids footwear across cFOPs through a hyperlocal lens, and so requires someone who can put themselves in the mind space of GC consumers and understand how to serve them, apply insights from them and make impact through coveted product. You will work with a broader TRIAD team from across Design and Development and closely partner with your global product & merchandising partners to understand & fuel franchise and marketplace strategies. You will monitor progress against objectives and adjust plans as needed, including hitting cost/margin on your projects and all aspects of product management to successfully deliver the line to market. You'll ensure the accuracy of information in NIKE Inc. internal product management systems. You'll also be responsible for creating and delivering impactful presentations at internal and external meetings on a regular cadence.

You will foster strong relationships with your peers across the entire Men’s and Kids team and partner closely with Merchandising to ensure integration and alignment on key initiatives, innovations, and product journeys. As a key member of the Product Management team, you will serve as a proactive partner during critical checkpoints & planning moments. You will be responsible for coordinating and communicating the line or specific products to internal and external audiences.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

WHAT YOU BRING

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or 2 additional years of experience in lieu of degree

• 5 years of product experience

• Strong understanding of consumers across Sports and Cultural

• Proven track record of displaying strong business acuity & strategic decision making

• Phenomenal product eye

• Strong style sensibility

• Trend foresight

• Proven track record of fostering a collaborative team environment

• Ability to tell compelling stories

• Strategic thinking, product line management and franchise management experience, with ability to drive solid X-functional plans.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including presentations

• Exceptional attention to details and deadlines

• Strong organizational & influencing skills

We are looking for Nike Value Store Allocator who can create, adjust and manage data with analytical and proactive mind. The candidate needs to be strong at details with ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

• Bachelor's degree in related study of the role.

• Minimum 3 years of related experience.

• Comprehensive understanding of retail math.

• Strong and demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and influence stakeholders.

• Experience in developing an understanding of customers, competitors and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred.

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office applications; proficiency in Excel including creating spreadsheets, complex formula, pivot tables, etc.,

• Strong team player and ability to work with the cross functional partners and senior management on all aspects of the business.

• Native in Korea, Fluent in English.

You’ll manage territory allocation and assortment planning for NVS to meet financial and inventory goals, while analyzing in-season trends, executing orders, and addressing inventory issues. You also maintain store clustering strategies, guide defect handling, and ensure timely replenishment and delivery tracking. Execute the territory allocation plan on NVS business to achieve financial goals, target inventory levels and assortment distribution strategy.

• Analyze in-season business trend such as sales, store on-hand, warehouse stock, ship-in, etc.,

• Define the breadth and depth of the assortment with right size scale.

• Maintain fleet tiering, clustering and category strength plan for all stores aligned with Location Planner.

• Timely execute orders, delivery tracking and further replenishment.

• Address issues and advise strategy to bring inventory to standard level.

• Guide stores to handle defective/B-grade goods.

You will work with different brand function squads, Concept and marketplace counterparts to ensure the experiences are brought to life in a consistent way.

Reporting Line:

Director, Retail Marketing, Concept Experience, GC

Key Partnership:

• X-functional Retail marketing & Brand Creative teams including RB, VM, RP, EKIN, Store Design and Storytelling Design.
• X-functional marketplace teams including NDSS, Retail Concept, Field, Care, Account, Social Commerce, and Merch.
• Global Retail Marketing and Concept Experience counterparts

Job Responsibility:

• Drive retail marketing strategy across global and C4C retail concepts to elevate Nike distinction and capture future growth.
• Deliver E2E (briefing to execution) concept specific contents and experiences partner with other RM and Marketplace function teams.
• Drive & execute service and experience strategy that elevate and deepen consumer brand engagement, drive traffic to the store.
• Deliver scalable and sustainable “toolkits” that maintain brand standard and meet the commercial needs in all concepts .
• Execute data, insights and learnings to future concept experience strategies and briefs.

Functional Skill Required (Hard skills):

• Solves problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions
• Independently utilizes knowledge, skills, and abilities to identify areas of opportunity, resolve complex problems & navigate solutions.
• Integrates and communicates moderately complex information, sometimes to audiences who are not familiar with the subject matter.
• Is accountable for smaller projects or programs with manageable risks andresourcerequirements.
• Acts as a resource to teammates. Completes work independently with review at critical points; requires guidance only on complex issues.
• Performs work in support of marketing plans; demonstrates link between daily work andcompanymission; participates in initiatives, programs or products with moderate visibility.
• Ensures actions protect company image and limits risks

Experience Required (Soft skills):

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience.
• Creatively oriented will be essential to push outside the box thinking
• Has a passion to build ‘new’ ways of doing/thinking.
• Has innate curiosity to learn and grow, professionally.
• Is familiar with English and can write/speak fluently.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

This opportunity is tailor-made for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment and is eager to transform and influence the future of delivery operations excellence within one of Nike’s most critical manufacturing hubs.

• A bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum of 7 years of expertise in supply chain operations, planning, or project management within a high-performance organization.

• Exceptional analytical acumen with a proven ability to harness data for informed decision-making and strategic influence.

• Superior communication and stakeholder management skills—adept at navigating complex global matrix environments.

• Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional project management, driving alignment and execution across multiple teams.

• Experience working with process automation or RPA tools is a plus.

• A collaborative, forward-thinking mindset with an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.

You will lead performance excellence for the APAC Delivery Excellence Team by setting strategic Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), driving global initiatives like system upgrades and process harmonization, advancing automation through RPA collaboration, and managing a strategic project portfolio with clear governance and stakeholder communication.

• Drive Performance Management Excellence – Establish, refine, and oversee the APAC Delivery Excellence Team’s performance framework, setting strategic KPIs and ensuring rigorous monitoring for continuous improvement.

• Lead High-Impact Global Initiatives – Partner with global Delivery Excellence teams, factory stakeholders, and cross-functional experts to implement transformative strategies, including system upgrades, process harmonization, and capability building.

• Advance Process Automation & Innovation – Oversee the development of cutting-edge automation tools in collaboration with the RPA team, optimizing operational workflows and unlocking efficiency gains.

• Govern a Strategic Project Portfolio – Directly manage project governance, ensuring seamless communication of priorities, roadmaps, and status updates across global stakeholders.