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Senior Director Materials Apparel
Nike
Portland, OR, United States
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Description
This role will lead a cross-functional team of material experts to explore new materials in industries beyond apparel and drive exploration efforts across all areas of technological development in external industries. They will identify the optimal external partnerships and create business development relationships with them on behalf of Nike. Their team will partner closely with the global materials team and the global categories.
Accountabilities/Experiences Required:
• Lead, manage and inspire a diverse team of Innovators
• In partnership with Apparel NXT Leadership set long-term strategic roadmaps focused on NXT Platforms.
• Build, mentor and develop strong, collaborative teams.
• Strengthen overall performance of the Material Innovation team.
• With a collaborative spirit, lead continuous expansion beyond Apparel and Materials discipline
• Ability to work and collaborate with external global partners to imagine and redefine new ideas/platforms for textiles
• Explore and ideate beyond the apparel industry in search of new knowledge and ideas that push and challenge the future of Apparel Innovation.
Qualifications
Enterprise Leadership Skills Required:
• Textile background / athlete performance experience
• Ability to set a long-term strategic roadmap focused on NXT Apparel Platforms in partnership with Apparel NXT Leadership team.
• Experience with inspiring and mentoring others to advance exploratory innovative thinking.
• Experience with innovative, game changing problem solving and ideation
• Master problem solver; ability to make key decisions and enable teams to go (speed)
• Advanced level of internal and external communications experience
• Have a bias for action – embrace the explore and maker culture