Procurement Analyst 3

Work options: Hybrid

Onsite: Mon-Thurs

Title: Procurement Analyst 3

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: X 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.

What You Will Work On

This person will be working on a team with both internal stakeholders and an external vendor to drive process definition and process efficiency. This work will involve lots of cross-functional meetings, clarifying understanding with multiple stakeholders who have differing opinions, and being able to communicate these findings back to leadership and a vendor. This person should be process-oriented and a data-driven decision maker. This person should also have some creativity and ability to think “big-picture” in designing future business processes to meet stakeholder needs. This person will also serve as point-of-contact to support a key product engine for the team.

What You Bring

• Project management skills; ability to set and follow a timeline and assess risk
• Comfortable communicating and representing the organization and project with internal stakeholders, as well as external stakeholders
• Ability to drive clarity and work effectively with multiple stakeholders with competing viewpoints and priorities
• Ability to compare/contrast complex options and provide a well-thought-out recommendation
• Strong team collaboration skills
• Structured thinking skills and a process-oriented mindset
• Ability to distill complex concepts and processes into simplified messages
• Experience driving a large initiative or project preferred
• Experience working in a complex matrix organization preferred
• Ability to work with teammates in other time zones (Asia)