Chris Bates Email & Phone Number

United States

• As a strategic leader, I drive product innovation and market responsiveness, leveraging extensive industry expertise from Nike and Cole Haan. I lead cross-functional teams with empathy, ensuring operational excellence.
• Strategic Leadership and Innovation: Direct and execute the product lifecycle strategy for the Performance category, from ideation to market launch, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. Drive product.
• Profit & Loss Management: Oversee P&L, optimizing financial performance, managing costs, and maximizing profitability. Deep dive into pricing, builds, costs, materials, and deadlines.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Lead and inspire cross-functional teams to achieve business and financial goals. Foster a collaborative environment, address team dynamics, and ensure optimal collaboration.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure on-time delivery of samples, buy readiness, and cost-effective production. Mitigate risks, enhance product quality, and increase transparency with a weekly progress tracking system for.
• Market Responsiveness and Integration: Maintain a deep understanding of market trends and consumer needs.

Portland, Oregon, United States

In my role as the Performance and Sport Lifestyle Sr. Product Director, I play a pivotal role in driving the success of our product portfolio. With a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic consumer landscape, I craft and execute strategies that seamlessly blend our brand DNA with the collective memory of sport. My leadership encompasses guiding.

Portland, Oregon, United States

As the Footwear Product Director of Golf and Tennis at Cole Haan, I successfully led the launch and management of the Golf division, driving exceptional results in alignment with the brand's mission. I developed and executed comprehensive strategies that elevated Cole Haan's golf presence in North America through strategic Green Grass expansion. I played a.

Beaverton, Oregon

• As a Nike Golf Global Product Line Manager I am asked to perform many diverse tasks: Gather consumer insights; identify industry trends; synthesize business goals; line plan management; product marketing strategy.
• FY20 Revenue Growth + 51% $156M GPM% +200bpts
• Set and execute the 3 year vision and growth, aligned with finance and the company’s strategic plan.
• Re-energize the Golf business through Nike Icons and Jordan categories to increase marketshare in key accounts and regions.
• Identify new growth opportunities through product evolution and innovation around style
• Create capability in the business to get closer to and engage the consumer, building deeper emotional consumer connections thru compelling product storytelling, ensuring consumer and market insights are acted on across.

Portland, Oregon Area

Crafting world class footwear for Nike's top 20 elite athletes.Understand Customer Need - maintain close relationships with researchers and stakeholders to understand and communicate their needs and participate in validation of the solutions.- Create and effectively champion a data-driven product vision and strategy that puts our research and athlete.

Beaverton, OR

Innovation Product Manager and Running PLM for Nike Global Core Performance.Lead and manage the innovation initiatives from the running category and scale them into core performance.Identify insights that lead to innovative solutions.Responsible for line planning and briefing seasonally in collaboration with cross-functional triad team.Create and.

United States

Global Football Product Line Manager; Youth and Women's silos. Provide product line management for all facets of the product creation process. Responsible for creating insightful and impactful product briefs, grounded in a deep understanding of marketplace, consumer, the game and competitive trends. Communicate a vision for the Global Football Footwear.

Manage product creation of NAPC footwear lines including Women’s Soccer and Men’s Sportswear across basketball, football and running.Built the women’s soccer line from it’s first iterations for NA Sporting goods (2011) to a global offering for WWC15, Rio Olympics 2016, and FY17.Previously managed product creation of the Core Performance, Young Athletes.

APLM Nike Football/Hockey Licensed Apparel

Beaverton, Oregon

Sourcing Analyst for Nike Team and Licensed Apparel.

Portland, Oregon Area; Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for all aspects of public affairs including writing, photography, media relations and design. Managed media and public relations for U.S. Coast Guard events in the Northwest. Created media, photography and reporting, for internal and external publications, including Rose Festival’s “Fleet Week” and emergency situations on the Oregon Coast.