Suzi Sharp Email & Phone Number

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Managed and lead cross functional team from marketing brief to production on accelerated timelines bringing product to closer to market for the North America consumer. Ensuring footwear products meet the marketing brief, category costing targets, design intent, consumer relevance, while ensuring profitability and on-time delivery. Work on existing footwear models executing color, material and graphics on men’s women’s, kids, lifestyle and performance products. • Provide project support, direction and management to all key stakeholders, by identifying key product issues and offering solutions that meet manufacturing best practices and offering cost saving as needed while staying within the critical dates calendar. • Work closely with Asia counterparts to problem solve any manufacturing issues, cost issues and ensure timelines and calendar are in alignment for on time product delivery.• Managed the Dev Stretch Program and successfully mentored individuals to promotions of Footwear Developer.• Mentor Jr Developers to help foster growth both personally and professional, help to onboard new teammates. • Foster relationships between the teams at Beaverton HQ and Asia counterparts to ensure product excellence, profitability and on time delivery while simultaneously using my strong interpersonal skills to resolve conflict. • Manage multiple projects with seasonal overlap while consistently hitting category sustainability goals, as well as hitting all deadlines on time, ensuring data accuracy and meeting or exceeding category profitably, worked in three different software programs.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

As the Footwear Developer II for Nike SB (Skateboard), lead and provide project support for Nike SB innovation projects and foster close partnerships with Nike SB Athletes ensuring best practices are met on all signature footwear projects. Work closely with internal cross functional teammates to ensure product and process excellence are met.• Manage and lead the cross functional teams though the product creation process from marketing brief, design intent, wear test, to on time production of SB footwear products while hitting critical dates and profitably.• Mange multiple footwear innovation projects while driving sustainability initiatives that are aligned with Nike best practices.• Manage competing priorities, overlapping seasonal deadlines with 100% on time delivery and data accuracy. • Maintain close working partnership with Asia counterparts through all aspects of the product creation process, from manufacturing concerns to problem solving for wear test issues, materials or cost concerns and hitting profitability margins, performance testing goals and all critical dates.• Provided mentorship to a teammate that led to a promotion into footwear development.• Asia travel led the product teams to work on footwear products, address any potential manufacturing concerns and continue to strengthen partnerships with our Asia counterparts.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

New role created to help provide critical support and service to the brand marketing teams to ensure footwear, apparel and equipment products were available to meet brand moments such as Women’s Nike Marathon. • Identified brand category needs and developed a seamless process to manage contracts for product buys to ensure brand teams could always have products for critical brand moments.• Created training tools to maintain process and efficiencies and trained brand teams to ensure seamless process for submitting order requests. • Data entry of all contracts using Microsoft Excel and SAP software, provide bi-weekly contract reports to leadership and brand partners.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Promoted to Kids Footwear Dev, worked on kids’ footwear across three different consumers within the kids team, toddler, pre-school and grade school. Worked with cross functional teams to build “kid right” product that considers the critical developmental stage of each milestone. • Manage the development process with cross functional teams in Beaverton HQ and Asia counterpart.• Facilitate product review meetings to ensure design intent, profitability targets, offer solutions as needed.• Effective commutation with Asia counterparts to ensure all aspects of the product creation process have been met from marketing brief to final production.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Promoted to Assoc Footwear Dev, opportunity to learn footwear product development working on existing footwear models and doing color only. Provided support to footwear dev teams as needed to cover sabbaticals, maternity leave and took on more challenging footwear projects. • Manage the development process with cross functional teams on color only products.• Liasson to Asia regarding footwear projects, making sure critical dates and profit margins are met. • Facilitate sample ordering for each seasonal gate, manage sample distribution to key stakeholders. • Created and implemented new process for ordering promo product for key Nike events and for magazine print, this help to drive efficiency and improve on time product for key dates.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Entry level support role for Footwear Product Creation, support role for the Women’s Training Footwear Team.• Provided support for both footwear development and marketing, communicate on going critical dates and gates via email, order promo product for key Nike events.• Managed the seasonal footwear catalog process, ensuring all final images are correct for footwear catalog sales tool. Flagged and ordered footwear samples for each gate on the footwear calendar, manage distribution and storage room. Using Excel, provided bi-weekly product/sample racking reports to leadership.