Sr Digital Supply Chain Specialist

Are you ready to combine your experience in Supply Chain with your passion for E-Commerce? Join Nike's EMEA Supply Chain team dedicated to Nike Digital and become our new Senior Supply Chain Specialist based in the Netherlands. Working within our organization will be rewarding, exciting and most definitely it won’t be just another job.

At Nike, the EMEA Supply Chain Operations (Marketplace Supply Chain (MSC)) team takes pride in serving the consumer in the connected marketplace – whether they shop at one of our retail partners, in a Nike store or online. We are relentlessly elevating our strategy and driving improvement in our supply chain to reach a more premium service level for our consumer.

As a Senior Supply Chain Specialist, you always start with the consumer in mind. You will envision the future Digital Supply chain and lead improvement tracks to meet the financial and operational targets of our Digital business while delivering on Nike’s strategy.

In partnership with our MSC specialists, Nike Digital operations, Planning, Logistics, and Technology teams, you will deliver innovative, responsible, and scalable improvements to better serve athletes*. You will transform how we run and operate our business by experimenting, developing, and implementing improvements at the speed of the business.

• Performance management: Drive Digital Supply Chain KPI improvements related to speed, reliability and consumer satisfaction by using descriptive and predictive analytics that meet the needs of the future Digital marketplace and consumer.
• Reporting: Perform standard KPI root cause analysis, sharing and presenting weekly, monthly and quarterly performance updates to Nike Digital and Supply Chain leadership. Lead in-depth analysis on big impact issues and recommend long term solutions.
• Project management: Lead and participate in medium to large sized cross-functional projects as the MSC Digital subject matter expert. Apply project management tools to identify opportunities, define and follow-up on actions to optimize operational performance.
• Storytelling and Influencing: Design compelling communications that articulate the story and insights with a clear summary of the main ideas and recommendations. Develop high-impact business cases to different initiatives, lead trade-off decisions and prioritization of them.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with key cross-functional partners to cultivate innovation, identify risks & opportunities on efforts that will have the greatest strategic impact within the organization and share best-practice methodologies.
• Vision & Communication: Be the voice of our Digital consumer across Nike Digital and Supply Chain teams, inspire change through transformation, influencing and communicating when making decisions, ensuring our work supports and aligns not only with our Digital Operations Strategy but also with the organization’s vision.
• Leadership: Prepare and lead key Supply Chain sessions with both internal and external Senior stakeholders; share digital performance and recommend tailored actions to optimize the business.
• Consumer focus: Understand consumer needs and marketplace from available data, while being able to link plans to market trends. Awareness of product portfolio and strategy, including expectations around consumer response, growth opportunities and product lifecycle.
• Analytics & Tools: Create and share dedicated Supply Chain reports with relevant stakeholders (commercial and operational teams) and leverage both EMEA analytics and MPU performance dashboards to share insights.  

Your ability to drive service and make the right decisions with regards to prioritization and escalation will be essential in this highly dynamic and international environment.

• A hybrid working model of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
• 25 vacation days for full-time employees.
• Commuting allowance of €0.23 per km, with a maximum of €23 net per office day.
• Work from home allowance of €5 per day on remote workdays.
• 8.33% holiday allowance.
• Participation in a pension plan, fully covered by Adecco for the first year.
• 25% discount in the employee store.
• Free access to the online learning platform, Adecco Academy.
• Access to gym facilities on campus.

Nike, Inc., a global leader in athletic footwear, apparel, and innovation, is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, and serves as a beacon of inspiration for athletes worldwide. Its European Headquarters (EHQ) is located on a vibrant campus that reflects the brand's dynamic and innovative spirit. Surrounded by lush parks, cycling paths, and running tracks, the campus embodies Nike’s commitment to sustainability, health, and community. A melting pot of global talent, it fosters creativity and collaboration, driving forward-thinking ideas that shape the future of sports, culture, and lifestyle.

As a Senior Digital Supply Chain Specialist, you will lead operational excellence initiatives to serve our digital consumers through strategic activities across Nike systems, tools, and reports. You will drive improvements to meet financial and operational targets while delivering on Nike’s strategy. Your role will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams to innovate and optimize processes, ensuring a seamless and premium service level for our consumers.

 The ideal candidate should have over 4 years of experience in Supply Chain or planning roles, with a strong focus on consumer needs and innovation. They should possess extensive knowledge of Supply Chain Management and general business principles

• Project management: Proven experience in leading medium to large sized cross-functional projects and using project management methodology.
• Storytelling & Influencing: Strong written and verbal communicator, ability to translate complex supply chain issues into concise insights, sharing with senior leaders, bringing recommendations and facilitating decision making.
• Stakeholder management: Experience in developing excellent working relationships with key partners, bringing the right people together and facilitating leadership decisions.
• Vision & Leadership: Ambition to drive change, and ability to clearly communicate and influence various levels within a matrix structure and multinational teams.
• Analytics: Expertise in KPI management and root cause analysis using excel and/or Tableau & perform deep dive analysis. Ability to translate large and complex data sets into business insights through visualization (graphs, tables). Experience with SQL is a plus. Obsess Consumer Promise KPI’s on a daily basis and execute actions to reflect a competitive and reliable delivery promise utilizing various signals​
• ERP System experience (SAP is a plus).

Apply now via the green button. If you need more information about the team, the company, the role; feel free to send an email to nike@adecco.nl. We will be more than happy to support!