Director Talent Acquisition Greater jobs at Nike in China, Shanghai

The Jordan Streetwear FOP Merch lead drives the global Consumer x FOP vision alignment for the full marketplace and owns consumer insights for Greater China. This role focus on elevating Jordan through consumer right product, module prioritization and distribution intent to further inform assortment direction. FOP merchandising is acting the voice as Greater China into Global Merchandising.

• Responsible for influencing global line plan, building edited offering by FOP based on the knowledge of consumer insights and market capacity.
• Drives communication related to the consumer right assortment with MPU merchandising to ensure a consistent premium FOP experience landing in marketplace
• Owns pricing, flow, distro intent decision rights and serves as core members within FOP team.
• Drive the overall Jordan Streetwear business

This role requires a leader with exceptional cultural intelligence and the ability to drive results in a global, diverse environment.

Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree required in the relevant or a related field, or any acceptable combination of education and experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in the relevant or a related field.

The Creative Director for Women’s

As the Creative Director for GC Women’s Training, you will develop and deliver the best in class creative work against brand and business priorities, including a mix of extensions against Global Directive and origination driven by local insights.

You will lead a team of multi-disciplinary creatives across multiple projects, working closely with creative storytellers, designers, writers and producers to deliver well-crafted and innovative campaigns. You will drive creative excellence and collaboration across multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring that the team deliver holistic creative against the seasonal strategy. Be the guardrail to the brand standards. Responsibilities include Creative Strategy, Concept & Ideas, Brand Narrative & Art Direction and so for the distinctive brand storytelling at multiple channels.

You will be the primary partner to the GC Senior Director of Womens Studio & Brand Creative Leaderships. You will collaborate closely with Women’s Training Brand Management and the functional teams in Brand Marketing.

WHAT YOU BRING

•Education: Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in marketing, advertising, or other relevant field

•Experience: 10+ years of relevant brand creative, communication & marketing experience.

•Ability to define and develop creative direction & concepts for projects with strategic thinking, sharp narrative and visual asethetics, while balancing artistic expression with business goals.

•Understanding of sport, athletes and consumers with thoughtful insights. Passion for women’s sport and style.

•Ability to articulate the compelling creative vision & concepts to diverse teams, leaders and various audiences internally & externally.

•Experience of navigating through a matrix organiation, being collaborative with optimistic influence driven on brand standards.

•Ability to drive through the end-to-end creative process with multiple projects.

•Demonstrates the experience and knowledge of integrated marketing campaigns to guide the team for concept articulation & amplification in multiple channels.

•Skillfully leads and maintains relationships with external partners: creative & design agencies, artists, photographers, producers, project managers and freelancers. Creatively directs and leads all aspects of work with external partners to ensure they are aligned to project expectations and brand standards.

•Innovative and willing to explore the creative solutions & new ways of work with uncertainty.

•Stay updated on industry trends and design developments to incorporate fresh ideas into projects.

Job Responsibility:

• Lead Women’s Running and Training business. Responsible for driving integrated, profitable, relevant Consumer Right Assortments which express the women’s running and training vision in the marketplace
• Drive the consumer construct vision aligned to Global and own consumer insights for the Geo. Ensure product hitting GC consumer needs in terms of product lifecycle, material, color, fit and design aesthetic.
• Communicate strategy to stakeholders and drives consistent premium consumer experience
• Own and lead seasonal activities: hindsighting, line planning, product adoption, module prioritization and retail end in mind. Work closely with global and GC cross functional teams to ensure right product execution and investment.
• Be the critical and core member of consumer x marketplace squad team to collaborate and build long term strategy and drive E2E offense.

Functional Skill Required (Hard skills):

• Provide leadership to managers, supervisors and/or professional staff
• Identify and resolve complex technical, operational and organizational problems
• Integrate company mission into daily work and planning
• Leads or participates in key initiatives, programs or products with moderate to wide visibility
• Strong communication skill to lead and influence. Be able to manage conflict.
• Manage team and set team and individual goals that align with merchandising goals.

Experience Required (Soft skills):

• Requires a Bachelors Degree and minimum of 8 or 9 years directly relevant work experience
• Strong and passionate understanding for sports or fashion industry to deliver a premium consumer experience.
• Ability to clearly articulate goals and objectives, network, influence, and utilize internal and external resources as well as demonstrated leadership capability, including the ability to inspire and mentor others within a work group.
• Experience in a cross functional work environment, project management or matrix organization, being able to work independently while still be a good team player.

Reporting to the Sr. Director of C4C Retail Concept, this role will lead the development of specific retail concepts for Greater China. This includes setting the strategy, driving concept-specific service and experiences development, and working with cross-functions and global teams to pilot proof-of-concept successfully.

As such, we are looking for a consumer-obsessed leader with proven track record in strategic thinking, vision setting and cross-functional project management. He/she should have experience in strategy, marketing, merchandising or marketplace. He/she will be passionate about the future of new retail and work closely with multidisciplinary teams to create the future of retail together.

R&R:

• Develop Nike GC Retail Concept Strategy in close collaboration with global teams and drive concept evolution to support GC marketplace transformation

• Land concept strategy thru spearheadingnew retailconceptinnovation projects or elevating existing retail concepts based on consumer obsession and business intention

• Lead x-functional proof-of-concept for continuous retailconcepts evolvement and local adaptions

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree+holder with minimum7-10 years relevant work experience.

• Strong critical thinking capability with experience in strategy, marketing, merchandising or marketplace

• Experiencein retailindustryis a plus.

• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills across a matrixed organization, particularly with experience in leading complex, cross-functional teams

• Passion to shape the future of retail

• Fluent English and Mandarin is a must

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITHAs a Nike Talent Acquisition leader, you'll have strong cross-functional partnership across both HR and Business stakeholders and you'll be a strategic talent acquisition SME and thought partner to business leaders across the Nike, Jordan and Converse brands. You will leverage our call to action: "Sport has the power to unite", to deploy attraction strategies across the vast landscape of top talent to bring innovative and fresh talent profiles into the organization.

The Talent Acquisition leader for Greater China will build, own and drive acquisition strategies across the region and multiple disciplines while guiding a team of experienced recruiters to deliver on their best work. You will navigate the Nike organization and offer solutions that will enable the team and business to scale and grow. The successful candidate will be;

• A player/coach, delineating when to execute and when oversee critical work

• An active leader and contributor in progressing the TA culture

• A proactive collaborator across TA functions to drive work alignment

• Present and future focused while planning and acting with long-term, sustainable and scalable focus

• An instiller of trust and drive influence Senior leadership on talent acquisition processes, talent insights and market data

• Able to implement and monitor long-term talent pipeline strategies for critical business segments

• A promoter of team cultural safety and continuous improvement by benchmarking industry standards and best practices and applying them against teams workflows

• Proficient in driving data quality for the team

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

This position leads a team of 10+ talent acquisition professionals and will be accountable for cultivating a culture of collaboration through inspiration and coaching. In partnership with the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, this role will:

• Ideate, establish, and operationalize attraction and acquisition strategies to meet talent objectives that compliment Nike's Talent and HR Strategies

• Lead recruitment operations across multiple business units, ensuring alignment with organization goals and strategy

• Ensure process consistency, data quality and scalability in recruiting practices

• Establish and monitor reporting and dashboards to track performance and strategic impact of recruiting activities

• Manage high-impact recruitment initiatives, including confidential searches

• Negotiate and manage relationships with internal and external strategic partners (HR Partners, Workforce Planning, Total Rewards, Recruiting vendors, etc.)

WHAT YOU BRING

• 10+ years of experience in talent acquisition

• Exceptional communication skills and partnership with global counterparts

• Proven ability to manage and influence key stakeholder

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and mentoring a team

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering high-quality work on tight timelines.

• Knowledge of current trends and advancements in the talent acquisition space

• Written and spoken fluency in both English and Mandarin.

• Bachelor’s degree required in the relevant or a related field, or any acceptable combination of education and experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in the relevant or a related field.

We are looking for an experienced Communications professional to lead our China Communications team. You will be responsible for developing a long-term vision and strategy that creates distinctive storytelling, protects and builds brand reputation; and engages and inspires our employees. You will build relationships across functions and the business to drive enterprise priorities through the lens of communications, that will take the brand to new places.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you’ll be working with a highly motivated team across Communications and other business functions, at both the Geography and Global level.

• You will be building and driving Asia plans that leverage the power of creativity, cultural connection and relationships to create energy and impact for Converse.
• Working in partnership with the Converse Communications global team, you will develop an Asia communications strategy focused on driving our most critical storytelling opportunities and accelerate Converse’s position as a brand of, and for, Creators.
• You evolve and advance our communications narrative to external and internal audiences to build brand resonance and identify emerging consumer trends that reinforce our brand’s connection to culture and the Creator community.
• Support VP/GM Asia and key leadership with strategic counsel, and enterprise-wide perspectives.
• You will partner with broader cross functional teams to execute plans and experiences tied to major culture and sport moments.
• You understand the competitive landscape, their narratives, strategies and tactics, and have a strong grasp on media consumption habits and influence for consumers across the China and Asia marketplace.
• Deploy creative problem-solving that drives innovative thinking, influences team culture, and supports cross-functional strategy.
• Provide coaching and mentoring teams, ensuring high engagement, clear accountability, and strong collaboration
• Ensure learning and development opportunities to help your team grow in their careers

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

• You will be part of the Global Converse Communications Leadership team and will report to the VP, Global Communications & Social, Community and Impact.
• This role works closely with all areas of the Global Communications team and with a highly matrixed and cross-functional group of teammates including geo and global communications teams; partnership with Brand Marketing; cross functional partners, leadership and external agency partners.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, business or related field or equivalent experience in role.
• A minimum 10 years relevant work experience, including experience as a people manager.
• Previous experience working with consumer and brand focused companies is preferred, not required.
• A self-starter who instinctively and consistently creates personal and professional stretch goals and meets them.
• Works well with others with the ability to build trust with the team and work effectively in a highly collaborative team environment.
• Skilled at planning, organizing, prioritizing and executing simultaneous projects and activities. Proven ability to work well under pressure and adapt quickly to change.
• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• Curiosity, flexibility, creative thinking.