Senior Manager, Footwear Product Development, Local Creation GC
Nike
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are seeking a Senior Manager, Footwear Development to play a critical leadership role on the Greater China Local Creation Footwear Development Team, driving product excellence for the Greater China consumer in a fast-paced, close-to-market environment.
As the Senior Manager, Footwear Development, this person will lead the Sportswear Footwear Development team and provide strategic direction across the footwear development portfolio, ensuring product, process, and team excellence while enabling speed, agility, and high-quality decision making.
The ideal candidate is an experienced footwear creation leader with demonstrated strength in people leadership, strategic thinking, product development, cross-functional collaboration, and problem solving. This person is expected to navigate ambiguity, establish clear priorities, empower the team to make fast and effective decisions, and create strong alignment across functions and geographies.
As a member of the Greater China Local Creation Footwear Development leadership team, this person will build trusted relationships and influence across Nike Footwear Product Creation, Global Product Teams, manufacturing partners, and cross-functional teams comprising diverse cultures and geographies.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON As the Senior Manager, Footwear Development for Greater China Local Creation, you will lead the Sportswear footwear development strategy and execution across Men’s, Women’s, and Kids, enabling the team to bring ideas from 2D design and tech packs into 3D, Go-To-Market samples and ultimately commercialized products.
You will provide strategic direction across the footwear development portfolio, balancing consumer needs, business priorities, product complexity, resources, and timelines to enable fast and effective product creation. You will drive product and process excellence in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, ensuring projects deliver against design intent, performance, quality, cost, sus