NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and innovators. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

With aggressive long-term growth targets, Nike Inc.’s continued success hinges on new product innovations, operational excellence and fostering a workplace and portfolio of locations that can unleash the creativity and potential of all employees and our brand. Global Places and Services (GPS) is responsible for leading the transformation of the Nike workplace by making location as a competitive advantage through a relentless focus on physical space, services and portfolio solutions.

The GPS team will leverage systems, design thinking, and key partnerships across the Nike matrix and the industry to bring Nike to the forefront of new ways of working. GPS will serve as an enterprise catalyst under the CFO, helping to lead change, strengthen its global operations and accelerate progress toward Nike’s strategic objectives and in support of our strategic offense.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Within GPS, Nike Travel is responsible for moving and connecting employees around the globe at the optimal service levels and cost. This role is part of a global team supported by an external Travel Management Company (TMC). If this is you, you’ll be part of the GPS Services Team, and will report to the Director of Travel and Global Events based in WHQ (World Headquarters) and collaborate closely with your peers within the Travel team.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

We are looking for a Lead to manage travel within the APAC region. This role will be responsible for the implementation and management of travel operations and solutions in APAC (Greater China, Asia Pacific) in partnership with our Global Travel Team Standards and Partnerships. 

If this is you, you’ll be working with the Travel team and will have oversight and execution responsibilities in tasks like:

• Creating, operationalizing, and managing a localized APAC (Greater China, Asia Pacific) travel strategy in conjunction with the Nike Global Travel team members.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with key APAC stakeholders; creating a stakeholder engagement strategy ensuring that key stakeholders understand programming and can provide localized insights and act as a Travel super user in that location.
• Managing local travel suppliers and local TMC (Travel Management Company) under our Global partnerships on escalation issues, payment solutions, ongoing relationship management and contract engagement.
• Acting as the SME for Nike’s APAC region into our Global Travel team to ensure insights, trends, and program input provides regional point of view.
• Responsible for all regional traveler engagement, inclusive of managing day to day escalations of regional users, ad hoc local changes and solutioning, location promotions and rolling out global initiatives in the region. 

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You will need to have experience in corporate travel with the ability to bridge between industry standards and Nike needs in the region, tying to our global strategies.

We’re looking for a candidate capable of crafting programs and solutions tied to defined outcomes across multiple teams with the ability to implement with key performance indicators and check and adjust where needed.

We are looking for someone with:

• A minimum of six years directly relevant work experience, including corporate travel experience with bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• Experience of launched travel services and successful implementations
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across many different users, teammates and partner groups, having the ability to deliver and bring along a global vision and approach.
• Experience working with teams with collaborative approach
• Experience managing suppliers
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to analyze reporting and decide where corrective action is necessary