Senior Manager, Apparel Product Line Management, Expression, Local Creation GC

This role sits within Nike's GC Local Creation organisation and reports to the Director, Apparel Product Line Management, Local Creation GC. It focuses on the Expression portfolio, leading locally relevant product expression, storytelling, and marketplace-right solutions for the Greater China marketplace. The role works closely with Apparel Product Line Management teammates and partners across Design, Product Development, Technical Development, Materials, Costing, Sourcing, Merchandising, Planning, Finance, Brand, Marketplace, Sports, and global teams.

• Define the multi-season strategy and seasonal priorities for the GC Local Creation Expression portfolio.
• Lead and develop the Expression Product Line Management team, including work across local expression, Nearshore, and Jordan-related priorities.
• Translate GC consumer, cultural, trend, and marketplace insights into clear product expression strategies and seasonal briefs.
• Shape line architecture, assortment direction, price-value positioning, product storytelling, and channel relevance.
• Connect product expression across Design, Brand, Merchandising, Marketplace, and product creation teams to deliver a consistent consumer proposition.
• Drive product creation excellence from concept through commercialisation, ensuring clear consumer value, product intent, and business impact.
• Partner with Design, Product Development, Technical Development, Materials, Costing, Sourcing, Merchandising, Planning, Finance, Brand, Marketplace, and Sports teams.
• Use consumer insights, marketplace feedback, trend intelligence, competitive learning, and commercial data to inform decisions.
• Create clear briefs and presentations that align cross-functional and global partners around the opportunity, priorities, and intended outcome.
• Manage milestones, product information, risks, trade-offs, and decisions with accuracy and speed.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration, curiosity, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in Product Management, Merchandising, Business, Marketing, Design, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Typically 8+ years of experience in apparel product management, merchandising, category management, product creation, or a related field within sportswear, fashion, outdoor, or consumer products.
• Strong understanding of apparel product creation from consumer insight and brief development through design, development, commercialisation, and marketplace launch.
• Ability to translate consumer, cultural, trend, marketplace, and commercial insights into focused product strategies and recommendations.
• Strong product sense, apparel knowledge, commercial acumen, and product storytelling capability.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams, setting direction, and aligning senior cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience working effectively across functions and geographies in a matrix organisation.
• Strong communication, influence, presentation, problem-solving, organisation, and project management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple seasonal priorities and make sound decisions in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Professional working English is required.
• Strategic, consumer-obsessed, collaborative, and results-oriented professional with a strong product point of view, deep curiosity about the Greater China consumer, and the ability to turn insights into focused product direction.
• Comfortable creating clarity in ambiguity, influencing across a matrix organisation, and balancing consumer relevance, brand distinction, speed, quality, and profitability.
• Communicates with impact, builds trusted partnerships, and leads work with accountability and inclusion.

• Mandarin capability for day-to-day collaboration in Greater China is strongly preferred.