WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
As our Cost Engineer I, you’ll support AirMI product & productivity costing to help drive key decision-making across the Supply Chain and extended AirMI leadership team. You will work across different functions at Nike Air MI (including but not limited to: Engineering, Finance, Operations, Planning & Manufacturing/ Production), as well as Nike dimension/category partners to provide accurate product costs and/or quotes for legacy and innovation airbag and cushioning technologies.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
You will support the development, implementation and/or improve the processes and tools for establishing, maintaining, updating, and communicating standard costs and portfolio pricing updates. You will help to find opportunities or solutions that enable manufacturing efficiencies and product cost targets. You will support Return on Investment (ROI) analysis, cost savings analysis, and make vs buy analysis in support of the launch, manufacturing, and continuous improvement of products made by Nike Air Manufacturing Innovation facilities.
An ideal candidate will bring:
- Bachelor’s Degree with focus in Engineering, Finance, Business Management or related field or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training
- Relevant experience including manufacturing, engineering, costing, or footwear development, including experience with standard costs and variance analysis.
- Knowledge of costing in a manufacturing environment with high volume coupled with high product mix portfolio and/or global business management; experience in plastics and/or footwear manufacturing is preferred.
- A creative approach to problem solving, while being systematically driven. An upbeat self-starter, who is a strong teammate and great collaborator as well as comfortable working in an environment of ambiguity.
- Proficiency in MS Suite or related programs, experience with SAP and exposure to Lean Manufacturing principles is preferred.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
You will partner with Engineering and Finance in the evolution of Air MI’s costing and pricing framework. This role involves solving complex challenges and bringing new perspectives to existing processes and solutions. You may work independently at times and lead or participate in multi-functional teams to enable accurate cost standards. Additionally, you will be accountable for multi-functional project initiatives while managing your core responsibilities.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Provide support to cost and price new and existing products (Air Portfolio Repricing)
- Provide support for cross-site, cross functional strategic business initiatives - Make vs. Buy decisions, development of new costing tools & workstreams.
- Audit manufacturing processes to ensure product cost standards are accurate.
- Partner with other functions with Education on Cost standards & to understand return-on-investments of proposed projects.
- Manage responsibilities on your projects and communicate progress/priorities to management and internal team members, with strong communication and facilitation skills in multi-functional, team-based environments.
- Work with teammates of all levels including directors, managers, engineers, technicians, machine operators, and supervisors and understand their contribution and leverage to the overall costing equation.
- Support the creation & maintenance of end-to-end product costing standards, best practices, processes & tools; provide data and frameworks to prioritize cost savings opportunities across AirMI.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
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What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., it’s in our nature to innovate and our mission is to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world [if you have a body, you’re an athlete]. Because we exist to serve athletes, we dare to design the future of sport. To us, innovation is about elevating human potential. We obsess over the needs of athletes of all abilities, using their insights to create products that are beautiful, useful and make all athletes better. To make big leaps, we take big risks. Incremental change won’t get us to where we want to go fast enough. So we pursue moonshots — like developing the first self-lacing shoe, running the first two-hour marathon and committing to 100% renewable energy use in our facilities. We embrace different perspectives — from scientists and designers to coders and quarterbacks — because we know everyone brings unique experiences and ideas to the team. To serve athletes across the hundreds of countries where NIKE does business, we need teams that truly reflect the diversity of our consumers and a culture of inclusivity. We aim to foster inclusion and embrace diversity throughout our business, teams, and culture to create breakthrough innovations, empower teammates to realize their full potential and bring us closer to the communities we serve. NIKE's diverse, high-performing teams around the world are united in purpose and inspired to change the world through sport.
Why Work With Us
With a global footprint, culture of innovation and team-first mentality, we take action to create a future of continual progress for athletes, sport and our world. Whether our job is designing the ultimate sneaker or coding a revolutionary app, we’re united by the same mission: to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.
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