Lead, Energy Marketing Operations, Global

Nike • Beaverton, OR

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Energy Brand team is responsible for driving innovation and pushing boundaries within Nike Inc. across all sports. The Energy Brand Planning and Operations team provides the essential infrastructure, tools, and systems to ensure smooth and precise operations for brand and business functions, from strategic seasonal kickoffs to consumer launches. This team is proactive, solutions-oriented, and committed to operational excellence. We are seeking a Marketing Operations Lead to establish the framework for how Global Energy Marketing plans, builds, and delivers world-class collaborations, storytelling, and brand experiences. This role will oversee operating rhythms, budget management, tools, and reporting to ensure projects are completed on time, within scope, and on budget. This is a highly influential individual contributor role requiring a structured yet flexible, proactive, and collaborative operator capable of bringing clarity to complex, matrixed teams. The successful candidate will drive accountability, simplify ambiguity, and ensure marketing execution progresses effectively in a fast-paced, non-linear environment.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in marketing operations, project management, strategy, or related roles within a global, matrixed organization.
• Proven ability to build and iterate marketing processes, operating models, and tools.
• Proactive, confident communicator who can influence without authority and operate effectively with senior leaders.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving progress through change.
• Strong understanding of seasonal marketing workflows, go-to-market planning, and consumer-led brand strategy.
• Highly organized, systems-oriented thinker with strong project and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear narratives, plans, and recommendations.
• Proficiency with planning and collaboration tools (e.g., Airtable, Smartsheet, Box, Tableau or similar).
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field; or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience working with/or around creative partners and cultural collaborators.

Responsibilities

• Manage seasonal marketing milestones, kickoffs, cross-functional integrations, and decision-making forums to advance work.
• Establish and maintain operating rhythms, communication cadences, and clear ways of working across teams.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve execution and operating processes to enhance clarity, efficiency, and accountability.
• Produce and/or project manage critical projects while driving overall seasonal milestones.
• Partner with production to forecast resources and the creative operating model.
• Optimize team workflows with emerging tools and AI-enabled solutions to improve speed, visibility, or quality.
• Manage creative vendors and cross-functional inputs to support high-quality marketing delivery.
• Plan, manage, and track the budget across projects and seasons, collaborating with finance and marketing teams.
• Manage contacts, vendor setup, Statements of Work (SoWs), and purchase orders.
• Partner with marketing leads to allocate, optimize, and calibrate the budget based on priorities, shifts, and business needs.
• Support alignment between marketing plans, concept maps, product priorities, and team resourcing.
• Act as a thought partner to senior leaders of Global Brand and Ops & Planning, and a key cross-functional partner to business integration and product teams.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities across the brand portfolio and proactively drive resolution.
• Translate complex inputs into clear plans, recommendations, and operating decisions.
• Enable teams to work more effectively by simplifying complexity and improving ways of working.

Benefits

• Accommodations for the interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior