Lead, Streetwear Retail Brand Marketing - Jordan NA

Nike • Beaverton, OR

18d

About The Position

In Jordan Brand, we believe there is Greatness in everyone. Our mission is to inspire & unleash personal greatness across every corner of the world and if we do this, we believe we’ll unify and elevate our ‘community of greatness’ to change the world for the better. With our deep roots in Basketball, Streetwear and Community Jordan Brand began as an homage to one player: Michael Jordan. Since then, Jordan has become synonymous with peak performance and an endless pursuit of Greatness. We are looking for our next MVP to level up the game in Jordan Retail Brand, an experienced Retail Brand Marketing Lead to join our growing team who is an entrepreneurial creative problem solver, a great teammate, and able to thrive in ambiguous situations. Someone with strong leadership skills, a proven track record developing and executing multi-channel marketing plans, and a passion for obsessing the consumer. This position will play a key role in developing strategies and plans for seasonal retail brand marketing campaigns, consumer and community product launches to drive business growth. The candidate should have a strong grasp on the marketplace, retail landscape & competitors. They will need to be able to build strong working relationships across a matrixed organization and with external partners. Leadership skills, collaboration, brief development, project management, communication, and creativity will be vital pieces of the role. The ideal candidate will embody the values that our company holds dear, and one willing to adapt on the fly, all while maintaining a growth mindset. This role will lead and develop the Jordan Seasonal Retail Brand Marketing strategy, vision, and evolution of Integrated Retail Marketing across our Nike own & Partners locations in North America. The role will enable O2O integrated marketing plans, focused on the consumer journey that prioritizes Jordan Brand initiatives, brand and community moments across the marketplace. They will work closely with North America cross-functional teams within Jordan Brand and Nike to align on key seasonal product stories for the geo and key cities. They will be responsible for understanding both the art and science of marketing; obsessing the business, consumer insights and the creative ways we tell our product stories in-store and digitally. They will be responsible for the North America Jordan Retail Brand strategy, briefing accounts / agencies, supervising on-going workflow and the final stages of creative and executions. The ideal candidate should have an understanding of analytics, North America Marketplace and experience managing wholesale accounts. They will deliver marketing plans in an innovative way to drive best-in-class retail marketing experiences for our consumers and our communities.

Requirements

• 6+ years of work experience in Retail Brand, Digital and Brand Marketing or related experience in Marketing (preferably in Retail).
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• Deep knowledge of the North America Retail Marketplace and Retail Brand Marketing.
• Demonstrate an authentic connection and understanding of the Jordan Brand, our Consumer and Retail Landscape.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including meeting facilitation and making persuasive presentations to leadership.
• Proactive accountability and goal-oriented; experienced turning strategy into action, managing multiple projects on various levels with different and converging timelines.
• Outstanding organizational skills to influence functional teams and cross-functional projects.
• Must be able to demonstrate how to work independently and proactively and have experience working in a matrix organization.
• Adapts quickly to move at the pace of consumer and work in a constantly evolving environment, making judgment calls and shifts as needed.
• Proven experience identifying and managing external relationships with individuals including, but not limited to agencies and retail partners.
• Knowledgeable of the competitor marketplace.
• Must be detail oriented and results driven.
• Relentlessly curious about the Jordan Brand consumer and their love for the Brand.
• Leads with confidence and demonstrates credibility and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Partner cross-functionally (Global, North America Retail Marketing, Brand, Merchandising, Sales, Territory Retail Marketing, and City Brand teams.
• Lead all details of owned projects/initiatives including communication strategy, preparing/presenting the brief process, store mapping, managing program overview, workback schedules, creative approvals, project budget, briefing agency, distribution and recap.
• Manage collaboration with agency teams and account partner teams.
• Support the team with O2O marketing programs including but not limited to: integrated digital/physical Jordan Retail Brand initiatives.
• Provide short and medium-term goal planning; synthesize program results & best practices to increase effectiveness.
• Partner across business units and merchandising to implement commerce capabilities, integrate into the overarching brand strategy and marketplace business integration execution.
• Budget management and tracking for the initiatives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees