Software Engineering Manager, Supply Chain & Planning Technology

SUPPLY CHAIN & PLANNING TECHNOLOGY – ENGINEERING MANAGER – DEMAND PLANNING:

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

Nike does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. We are a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries, and push out the edges of what can be. We’re looking for people who can grow, think, dream, and create. We thrive in a culture that embraces diversity and rewards imagination. We seek achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about bringing what you have to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

If you’re ready to innovate and lead, it’s time to join Nike’s Global Technology organization. We combine technology and process expertise to deliver one-stop solutions enabling Nike, Inc.'s technical products and services. We are responsible for creating, developing, and deploying seamless, tailored, and inherently social experiences for our consumers. Working with our organization will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just another job.

Who are we looking for

As a Software Engineering Manager for the Demand Planning team, you will join a highly visible engineering team passionate about building demand planning applications that are essential to Nike’s end-to-end planning and supply chain strategy. The successful candidate is an experienced people leader who thrives on solving sophisticated business challenges through technology, teamwork, analysis, and creativity

What you will work on

• Lead a development team delivering end-to-end technology solutions in support of Assortment Planning and Integrated Business Planning capabilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team to ensure conceptual, logical, and integration designs are built following core engineering and architectural principles that meet the supportability, security, and scalability principles

• Transform (build/buy/recommend) our technology stack that orchestrates customer engagement journeys with an eye toward optimizing Margins and supporting Nike’s revenue growth

• Recruit strong engineering talents that represent the diversity of our audience, with clear and consistent hiring strategies

• Build and maintain a culture of modesty, execution excellence, collaboration, mentorship, and open feedback

Who you will work with

• Works closely with Planning & Manufacturing leadership to develop Engineering vision, strategy, and execution plans that are aligned with business outcomes

• Partners with Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Enterprise Capability to develop a sustainable roadmap for Engineering capability

• Partners with Product Management to ensure outcomes are aligned with business expectations

• Works closely with Product Management Organization to translate technical visions into tangible milestone-based plans

• Partners with Engineering Directors and other Engineering Managers to build a delivery excellence team

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience

• Excellent understanding of business processes in Integrated Enterprise Planning – preferably in Retail and/or Supply Chain

• 8 + years of hands-on experience in any of the packaged Planning solutions development like APO, o9, BlueYonder, solution deployment, and testing with a focus on any of the enterprise planning solutions

• 6+ years of professional experience in enterprise technology solutions including end-to-end Business Blueprinting, development, testing, support, and post-implementation tech solution refinement

• 4+ years' managing, mentoring and coaching 4 or more developers concurrently

• Proven experience in Big Data environment such as Hadoop and familiar with modern data technologies such as Databricks

• Proven experience in implementing enterprise solutions on cloud technologies, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Exceptional collaboration with listening, written and verbal communication skills to effectively interact with both business and technical audiences

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and highly matrixed organization environment with ambiguities

• Ability to build positive relationships across Product, Architecture, and Engineering, and influence decisions and changes across loosely coupled teams