Sr Financial Analyst Global Finance — Converse jobs at Nike in United States, Boston

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a Creative Lead for the NA Marketing Team at Converse, you will perform the functions of an Art Director at an advanced level, elevating your team by demonstrating a high level of inspiration, direction, creativity, and leadership. You have a passion for the Converse brand and footwear space and keep up to date with the latest trends within the industry.You are a master of ideation and creative thinking – with a mix of strong design skills, seasoned photo/motion direction experience, and an understanding of digital, environmental and experiential design to help support how the work comes to life across various touchpoints. The position requires someone who is driven, thinks critically, is accountable, empathetic, resourceful, who is both a leader and a team player.

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or design-related field and combination of education, experience, and training.
• 6+ years’ experience in art direction and design for large retail or agency – specific to the streetwear footwear/apparel industry.
• Retail and Experiential design experience a plus.
• Proficient in Figma, Frame.io and Adobe Creative Suite.
• A genuine passion for design and marketing to a variety of a target audiences.
• Must be a self-starter, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, organized, very detail oriented, collaborative and flexible.
• Able to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes.
• Familiarity with project tracking tools such as Asana.
• Deep connection to streetwear culture and trend.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Comfortable driving creative work with external partners and agencies.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

You will partner with the Internal Brand Creative team and other functional counterparts on the North America Marketing team to develop and execute everything from exceptional North America seasonal brand campaigns to smaller more tactical product focused work. You will help bring this work to life with impact across various touchpoints within our physical owned and wholesale partner retail spaces, digital platforms and experiential moments in North America.

• Working under the Creative Director, Brand Marketing North America, you will focus on execution of our creative brand marketing needs, concepting and delivering seasonal campaign creative, still and motion assets, design direction and comprehensive visual centers at the highest level, and leading their implementation across various functional workstreams.
• You will work with Project Managers and Brand Strategists to execute high-quality work while meeting deadlines and executing on brief. You will be willing to take risks to determine the balance between exceptional creative and relevant business needs.
• You will have strong communication skills and be expected to clearly articulate and pitch your work to internal teams and senior leadership.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As our Senior Executive Assistant, you will support the President & CEO of Converse

WHAT YOU BRING TO NIKE:

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
• Minimum of 5 years of administrative work experience supporting a senior level vice president in a large, matrixed corporate environment required. 10+ years of administrative work experience is preferred
• Experience supporting and partnering with C-suite employees, government officials, and other high-ranking officials
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Strong reading, writing, math and communication skills
• Proven experience and success working with a variety of high-profile stakeholders (examples: Executive leadership team members or Converse sponsored athletes and collaborators, etc.)
• Ability to work independently as a self-starter and as part of a team making connections in and across teams as you go.
• Exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities.
• Comfort working through ambiguity.
• Previous experience with event planning. Experience with budget creation/management and planning proposals preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel) and virtual meeting tools (Zoom / MS Teams). Experience with Keynote a plus, not required. Experience with AI tools like Chat GPT or Microsoft Copilot a plus, not required.
• Exercise discretion and independent judgement when handling confidential and sensitive information. Prior experience handling sensitive and confidential information is preferred.
• Ability to occasionally work outside of core business hours
• Previous Converse work experience is strongly preferred

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

As an integral support to your leader and critical part of the team, you will be responsible for:

• Calendar Management: Coordinate and manage the leader’s schedule, ensuring timely appointments and meetings proactively resolving calendaring conflicts where possible without the involvement of the leader
• Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact between the leader and internal/external stakeholders. Handle email correspondence, responding to inquiries that do not require the VP's involvement promptly and professionally; highlight actionable items and respond when possible.
• Meetings & Events: Securing event space as necessary and handling any budgeting, catering, agenda planning, scheduling, reminders, and working with external parties as needed. Supporting any documentation before, during and/or after to ensure objectives of the meeting / event are met. Assist with coordination of materials for Board of Director meetings.
• Travel Arrangements & Expense Report Management: Make complex domestic and international travel arrangements. Complete and review expense reports in a timely manner.
• Document Preparation/Organization, Presentation & Information Sharing: Draft, review, organize important documents, reports and presentations. At times you may also present and share these documents and/or presentations with the appropriate leaders and teammates accordingly.
• Leadership: Represent, lead, mentor, partner, and drive efficiency across Converse administrative community.
• Project Support: Assist in the planning and execution of special projects, ensuring deadlines are met and objectives are achieved.
• Confidentiality: Maintain the highest level of confidentiality regarding sensitive information and decisions made by the leaders.
• Office Environment & Teammate Onboarding: Onboard new hires, prep workspaces, equipment, office supplies and schedule meet and greets with the team. Additionally, you may also train and mentor other administrative hires as needed.
• Culture Building & Team Meeting/Offsite Support: Coordinate team/company events, including staff meetings, team-building activities, offsites and other functions to help the team build connections to each other, their leader, the environment and Nike.

Working under the direction of the Director, Global Digital Design and Copy, you will lead a team focused on execution of our Global and Geography specific e-commerce needs (focusing on, but not limited to, converse.com experiences and performance marketing (email, SMS and paid media).

In this role, you will manage a team of Senior and Junior full-time and freelance Copywriters. Your team will be responsible for embedding yourself in the goals of our strategy teams to fully comprehend and execute their briefs. The goal for you in this role is to help anticipate and offer up solutions to the Geo & Global e-commerce teams to help grow and drive their business.

• You and your team will execute converse.com experiences, email and paid media
• You will have strong communication skills and be expected to clearly articulate and pitch your work to internal teams and senior leadership
• You will work with Project Managers and Experience Strategists to execute high-quality work while meeting deadlines
• You will be willing to take risks to determine the balance between exceptional creative and relevant business needs

AsManager of Global Digital Copy,you will work with our team of Copywriters, Designers, Operations Managers, UX, and Experience Strategists. You will partner closely with teams across the Geography & Digital Organization deliver content that supports Converse Geo & Marketplace business goals. This role reports to the Director, Global Digital Design and Copy.

• Bachelor’s degree in writing, Communications, Journalism or related field
• 6+ years’ experience in writing experience for large retail e-commerce or key digital agency experience specific to the streetwear footwear/apparel industry.
• Management experience of 3+ people
• Skills with Figma and Adobe Suite
• Expert command of the English language (including spelling, grammar, punctuation)
• A genuine passion for digital creative with a strong knowledge of digital commerce, performance marketing (email, paid social and other media) A/B testing, designing for different and multiple target audiences, and social media platforms
• UX Strong knowledge of UX/UI (does not need to be at expert level as you will not be leading UX work)
• Able to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes
• Familiarity with project tracking tools such as Asana or Trello
• Deep connection to streetwear culture and trend
• Understanding of current digital content & design trends for e-commerce
• Any other writing experience is valued. Must show fully comprehensive portfolio.
• Creative, bold and digitally savvy
• Ability to work out of Converse WHQ in Boston, MA, USA 4 days/week.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

The NAGrowth & Analytics

We are looking for curious, driven and passionate individuals who love retail sales and operations and know how to build valuable relationships. This role plays an integral part in supporting the NA Direct business and driving growth for the future. We are looking for someone who is motivated, self-driven, has strong communication and influencing skills and is results & solution oriented.

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 2+ years of experience business development, sales, or marketing role.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to analyze market trends and data to make informed business decisions.

• Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution abilities.

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will report to the Director of Global Consumer Planning. This role is heavily collaborative, working with many cross-functional teams such as Regional Planners, Analytics, Global Product/Consumer Merchandising, Global Finance, and Inventory/Supply planning.

This individual plays a strategic role acting as a liaison between Global Consumer Merchandising, Regional Planning and Global Finance to drive alignment and generate a Demand Plan driven by Integrated Business Planning processes. The role requires someone who can be agile, roll-up their sleeves, and is excited by the challenge of building something from the ground up. You have a passion for data and can identify trends and synthesize demand signals to develop accurate demand plans. You ask questions, are continually learning, and are finding opportunities to share knowledge with others.

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training

• 2+ years in merchandise planning, demand planning or business planning

• An understanding of key business tradeoffs with experience in the Retail or Wholesale industries a plus

• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills

• Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects at once

• Self-starter with the skills to manage through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment

• Influencing skill development and ability to story-tell data, across a diverse range of audiences

• Experiencing in data visualization, pulling a thread across strategy, insights and intuition

• Comfort in highly collaborative, cross-functional working environments

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will work alongside business partners to unlock the power of quantitative and qualitative data to drive Converse forward towards an integrated planning process.

To do this, you will:

• Provide information, analysis, and recommendations to drive planning decisions during all phases of seasonal product creation (long range through end of season)

• Consolidate demand by channel and identify and resolve gaps between financial targets & demand plan

• Provide information, analysis, and recommendations to drive Line Planning decisions during all phases of seasonal product creation, enabling assortment planning

• Leverage marketplace and assortment insight to influence early stages of the seasonal product creation process to maximize future season opportunities

• Support the building of franchise and family level forecasts using seasonal line plans, historical information and insights gained from partners Consolidate demand by geo and reconcile gaps between consumer demand, financial targets and Seasonal line plans.

• Bring together strategies across Demand Planning, Inventory Management, Operations and Finance to ensure the connectivity