Kyle Setzer: Director, Strategic Manufacturing Capabilities in Bend, OR

- Assess and plan for the impact of changing consumer and marketplace trends on internal processes and contract manufacturing partners for a global footwear and apparel company - Evaluate manufacturing capabilities and processes to highlight limitations and areas resistant to flexibility in order to streamline operations and process flow - Recommend organizational and operational shifts to allow seamless marketplace integration of long-term strategies - Facilitate goal setting, lead strategic conversations, and break down long-term plans for multiple groups to better understand the company vision and the impact of their individual and collective efforts

- Activated near-shore footwear customization program providing unique consumer and internal benefits - Improved delivery time from 5 weeks to 3 days and reduced waste costs from $50K to $5K by developing a new knit-to-order capability through end-to-end production analysis - Modernized Nike-to-factory collaboration toolkit to enable fast, flexible customization and order management capabilities - Automated the order flow process between Nike and contract manufacturers that reduced manual transactional interactions throughout the order to cash cycle - Enabled seamless goods movement from a brand new factory to customers and distribution centers

- Created and managed digital product merchandising solutions using Agile methodology with global teams - Collaborated with technical producers, digital merchandisers, and software providers to simplify the digital merchandizing process, enabling more targeted merchandising and search engine optimization capabilities - Expanded platform to serve additional countries such as Japan and China, tripling the company’s market reach

- Led team in designing and developing solutions to enable large-scale importing activities - Improved group throughput and strengthened relationships with internal and external business teams while decreasing development costs and centralizing activities by automating multiple processes - Streamlined trade operations by automating import classification assignment, free trade agreement compliance, import license management, and duty optimization programs