Nike Senior Director Sports Marketing Athlete Integration 

United States, Oregon, Beaverton 

813582967

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or equivalent education. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 10+ years’ successful experience navigating a complex matrix and building key relationships to achieve business results.
• 10+ years' account/project management and internal/external relationship management experience, including 6-8 years in a managerial position, preferably in the Sports industry.
• History of success leading highly functioning teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including meeting facilitation and presentations. Proficiency in Keynote, Excel, and MS Office applications.
• Ability to understand complex business scenarios, find creative ways to solve problems, and make sound decisions for the benefit of Sports Marketing and Nike.
• Ability to develop and maintain fair and honest relationships at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Proven ability to prioritize workloads, negotiate, and to persuade and influence people to take desired actions.
• Ability to manage high profile communication and athlete relationships.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide long-term visioning and strategic thought partnership alongside cross-functional partners to develop a strategic, long-term Athlete Integration offense for Nike’s top-tier Global athletes.
• Manage a team and budget that will deliver the overall Sports Marketing Athlete Integration offense, aligning vision, strategy and plans for top-tier athletes to help enhance our contractual rights, to strengthen our connection with the consumer, and to fuel business growth.
• Ensure our athletes are an integral part of the product creation process, creating a 360 degree feedback loop to help drive innovation and product excellence.
• Partner with the Sports Marketing Athlete Services team and the Sport Categories to create a strategy for comprehensive athlete plans, inclusive of both Athlete Integration and Athlete Service opportunities.
• Proactively and strategically align our top-tier athletes against Nike’s purpose offense – people, planet, play.
• Lead a high-performing team of individuals who have deep knowledge and relationships within their respective Sport Categories. Motivate them to develop meaningful partnerships with teammates both within Sports Marketing and cross-functionally, allowing us to put the athlete at the center and show up as one unified support team.