Senior Professional, Mktg Project Mgmt, Kids & Brand Initiatives, GC

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Marketing Operations, is apart of the Brand Planning and Operations function at Nike. Marketing Operations is the team that drives, shapes and forms processes influenced by strategy. Ensuring the delivery of marketing in alignment to business priorities and the integrity of alignments as the strategy begins to land with all function teams.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Marketing Operations is looking for a Senior Professional to lead the Kids Planning & Operations.

This role, will overlook the end to end operations across strategy development to ensuring rollout of seasonal campaigns. Playing the crucial role of being the strategic partner to the Senior Director of Kids Brand Team ensuring the landing of the strategy into the seasonal plans. This role will require you to be both strategic thinking and innovative in driving processes across multiple functions.

The successful candidate will embody skillsets including strong communication skills, solutions oriented mindset and leadership qualities to drive projects forward and manage tough conversations.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

Your day to day will entail working closely with the brand team, and driving clarity for your teams and partners to ensure timely delivery including:

• Seasonal Lead: Leading upstream seasonal priorities with Consumer teams, Marketplace place teams and translating that into Marketing priorities, working closely with the Brand Marketing Leaders.
• Kids Planning: Partnering with the Senior Director of Kids, to set strategic direction of the brand's long term strategy, translating business needs into marketing strategy. As well as as ensuring the integrity of the strategy when moving into creative development, and bringing the strategy to life.
• Process and Operations: Ensuring timelines and key milestones of campaign development and tracking of all projects, and navigating ambiguities by providing solutions and driving clarity.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

Being an great communicator and experienced in stakeholder management, you will be familiar with working across matrix org structures, where there will be multiple stakeholders and functions you will working closely with, in and out of Marketing.

Your Core Partners will be the Kids Brand team.

Together with the brand team, you will navigate around many stakeholders by the likes of GMs, Merch teams, and marketing functions in the kid's team.

You will be Reporting to:

• Marketing Operations Officer

WHAT YOU BRING

On top of a love for detail and driving processes, you will also be expected to have:

• Over 5 years of strategy and marketing experience.
• Exposed to matrix communications with multiple stakeholders
• Understanding of marketing processes from business strategy to creative development and execution.
• Proven track record of driving processes with rigor.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.