Sarah Walton
Senior Director of Sustainable Materials
Nike
Sarah Walton is the Senior Director of Sustainable Materials for Nike. A graduate of Wellesley College, Walton studied Economics. She spent the first part of her career at Target in Minneapolis in roles across Merchandising, Planning, 6SIGMA, and Corporate Strategy. She then moved to Nike in 2010 for a role in Corporate Strategy, and after two strategy roles was asked to build the Pricing organization – she led the function for four years before taking her current role. Over the last year in her role she has worked to create a meaningful business case around sustainability for Nike and our partners.
Sarah’s role was created a year ago to build and drive a strategy for Nike around End-to-end sustainable materials and vendors in the Tier 2 space. She is responsible for working cross functionally, internally and externally to halve Nike’s impact around materials.