Senior Director, Account Marketing, Performance Partners

At Nike youll lead the Performance Partners Account Marketing team to amplify the Nike Inc. Partner Marketplace and create lasting consumer connections in our multibrand ecosystem.

Working crossfunctionally you will elevate the marketplace by delivering industrydefining marketing plans that leverage the full marketing mix to support our lead performance partner accounts including key sporting goods and specialty partners.

WHO YOULL WORK WITH

As the Senior Director Account Marketing Performance Partners youll lead a dedicated team to drive account marketing across our key performance accounts. Youll also serve as the leader on the crossfunctional Integrated Retail Marketing leadership team across the Business/MPUs and Brand Marketing for Football Running Training and other Sports engaging with a diverse group throughout the EMEA region and globally to serve the marketplace.

Youll partner closely with key marketing functions such as digital integrated media communications brand creative and sports marketing to ensure alignment and impact across every initiative.

Youll work with crossfunctional stakeholders in merchandising sales demand planning finance strategy and product while partnering directly with the VP Integrated Retail Marketing and Sales as a key stakeholder.

Your leadership style will adapt to varied daily challenges as you manage five direct reports with varying experience levels. Youll foster collaboration encourage innovative thinking drive ideas forward and leverage diverse expertise to deliver strategic solutions for a rapidly evolving consumer landscape.

In this role youll report to the VP Integrated Retail Marketing EMEA advising on strategic decisions and influencing processes to ensure plans are executed at the highest standards.

WHO WERE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for an experienced marketer who is passionate about sports and youth culture. You will lead a team in developing innovative marketing strategies and building strong consumer connections. We are searching for a marketer with a wealth of retail knowledge and experience.

You should be comfortable with ambiguity able to blend creativity with datadriven results and ensure projects remain aligned with key metrics. Adaptable and decisive you excel in fastpaced environments and embrace change. Skilled at managing multiple stakeholders you focus on both overarching strategy and the details necessary for success.

An enterprise thinker you are willing and able to think beyond your own agenda and constantly strive for better ways to engage with our consumers through testing learning and iterating. Your leadership sets an example and fosters a positive valuedriven culture within the team.

Youll bring:

• Leadership of a worldclass team: The successful candidate will lead and develop a worldclass team of marketers focused on supporting bestinclass talent and industryleading account marketing plans.

• Bold brand strategy expertise: Proven expertise in shaping and executing bold brand marketing strategies that cut across functions and channels driving measurable impact.

• Inspirational people leadership: A track record of empowering diverse talent fostering growth and building highperforming teams.

• Sharp strategic mindset: Ability to spot opportunities leverage competitive advantages and anticipate emerging trends before they break.

• Deep passion for retail and the marketplace: Ability to turn consumer and partner insights into authentic practical solutions for the marketplace.

• Holistic consumer understanding: A connected onlinetooffline approach grounded in a strong understanding of modern consumer behaviors.

• Knowledge of EMEA marketplaces and cities: Ability to navigate cultural nuance and diversity to build locally relevant globally scalable strategies.

• External relationship excellence: Proven experience in building and nurturing strong partnerships to drive brand and business success.

WHAT YOULL WORK ON

As the Senior Director Account Marketing Performance Partners youll create and support the vision for our evolved Nike Sport Marketplace driving functional excellence in an endtoend seasonal offense to bring the vision to life. You will actively build and shape the future of Performance Partners and their role in the marketplace for Nike Inc.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive and execute the FY Annual Operating Plan and Strategy for Nike and Jordan x Account tapping into the EMEA CSR Account Strategies Account Positioning and Brand Management Vision for Sport Offense.

• Own and drive Marketing Trade Terms allocation and alignment with internal and external stakeholders.

• Lead strategic portfolio prioritisation and support plans across competing sport and marketplace strategies and priorities.

• Collaborate crossfunctionally with Merchandising Sales DSM Retail Brand Brand Management and Sports Marketing to establish industryleading Account Positioning for the team to drive annual Account Marketing Plans.

• Own the partner leadership relationship developing deep connections with key partner marketing counterparts and buying teams to drive consumer understanding business acumen and new opportunities for a shared vision.

• Lead and develop people: youll lead an EHQbased team of five passionate direct reports and an extended team of ten helping them grow and thrive every day. Youll also support and develop our city retail marketing teams.

• Champion culture: you will foster a culture anchored in Nikes maxims and the capabilities of industryleading marketers Dreamers Innovators Doers Editors Tastemakers.