Program Management - LeadHybrid

Title: Program Management - Lead 

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 2 Year 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

The nature of the work is focused on defining tools and processes to support overall organizational excellence in program/project management and process definition.

• Vision and Strategy: Develops vision, strategy and deliverables of the large international Program.
• Ensures program is aligned with business strategies and budgets.
• Owns the business case for the Program, establishes and maintains cross functional and regional coordination.
• Organization, Planning and Execution: Maintains ultimate responsibility regarding program objectives operating within financial and resource constraints;
• Manages project dependencies within the program and builds the program team.
• Ensures vendor contracts, relationships, performance, and communications are well managed.
• Project Management Support: Ensures proper Project Management staffing for all projects within the program; helps develop project objectives and project scope.
• Act as an escalation point for project issues that impact projects' cost, schedule and / or performance.
• Chairs program steering committee meetings.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelors Degree and minimum of 8 or 9 years directly relevant work experience.
• Experience with Confluence and Jira strongly preferred.
• Miro Collaboration Tool or similar nice to have.
• Experience working with Artificial Intelligence and machine learning engineers is a plus.