Senior Director, Sports Marketing, Athlete Integration
Senior Director, Sports Marketing, Athlete Integration
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Job Description
WHO YOULL WORK WITH
The Sports Marketing Athlete Integration team is responsible for ensuring our athletes are integrated into all facets of NIKE Inc. driving value for both the athlete and for Nike. This role is responsible for developing a holistic strategy for our Sports Marketing Athlete portfolio through a tiered approach. It requires strategic visioning and cross-functional collaboration to redefine how we integrate athletes into all areas of the business ultimately driving value for our Athletes and results for Nike. This role will manage a team of Tier 1 and Sport Category focused Athlete Integration teammates who will obsess the Integration journeys of Nikes top-tier athletes through relationship-building and Athlete connection back to critical Nike functional partners.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The ideal candidate must be able to lead a team in a fast-paced dynamic environment with the ability to influence multiple internal and external stakeholders to create new capabilities and new ways of working.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors 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 YOULL WORK ON
You will work closely with the Sports Marketing Sport Categories Athlete Services team and Moments team and cross-functionally to integrate our Athletes into all facets of Nike including product innovation design brand purpose entertainment marketing and comms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide long-term visioning and strategic thought partnership alongside cross-functional partners to develop a strategic long-term Athlete Integration offense for Nikes 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 Nikes 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.
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for in-person interviews closed captioning and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover as you navigate our application process that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
Required Experience:
Exec
Employment Type
Full-Time
