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Lead, Global Business Operations, Jordan Entertainment
LAHQ
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
The Business Operations Lead will support the Entertainment teams within Global Jordan Brand Marketing, maintaining strong internal controls, providing timely, accurate, and relevant information to internal and external stakeholders, and ultimately delivering expert business partnership to drive profitable growth. You will report to the Sr. Manager, Global Brand Marketing, Business Operations supporting the Nike Entertainment center of excellence.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for an experienced project manager to drive operational excellence for the Jordan Entertainment Function within the Global Jordan Marketing Team, ensuring efficient and effective workflow process and business objectives are met.
This role requires an advanced level of problem solving using limited information to implement solutions with the ability to foresee most future implications. We are looking for someone that develops and manages operational initiatives to deliver tactical results. Strong communication skills and ability to understand challenges or underlying concerns, share ideas, clarify or resolve discrepancies, and develop effective responses or elevate to higher management is, a critical skill to bring to this role.
The candidate needs to be a self-starter with the ability to work through ambiguity in a highly collaborative environment. Experience with catalyst management and/or relationship management is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of
- education, experience and training
- At least 3-5 + years of experience with procurement processes, administration, terminology, features of the software systems and error resolution methods is highly desired.
- Possess a clear passion for Project Management & a clear understanding of how to successfully manage scope, schedule & budget.
- Excellent organizational, written and communication skills
- Demonstrated proficiency in using Microsoft Office tools and Airtable
- Proven ability and desire to solve problems and look for opportunities for improvement
- Demonstrated experience with contract and vendor management, tracking contract deliverables, maintaining project documentation and artifacts
- Ability to work as part of a matrix, with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally towards a common goal.
- Demonstrated experience tracking, validating, and processing of invoices and payments.
- Experience with and interest in business software and analysis tools (SAP system a plus)
- Strong interpersonal skills to deal effectively with varied internal clients, management groups and external vendors
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
If this is you, you'll be working with the Jordan Global Brand Marketing Team and performing and driving key pillars of Project Management for the Brand Initiatives Team: Key Code Gates, Workbacks, Budget Guidance, X-Functional Process Driver, Agency Partner Management, and overall End to End delivery, across Seasonal and Concept Development.
A typical day/week includes:
- Project manage multiple work streams at one-time & provide detailed project tracking reports that identify key deliverables and timelines
- Manage vendor relationships and budget
- Partner with cross functional teams to drive dates and gates, to deliver on time & within budget
- Manage distribution of deliverables to Geos, Geo communications, touch points, Global / Geo feedback sessions and postmortem conversations
- Update Entertainment priority projects project tracker and create workback schedules
- Manage purchasing process by opening PO's, submitting contracts for Nike Legal, and partnering with Procurement, when needed.
- Drive cross functional alignment and communication with partners
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.
OUR HIRING GAME PLAN
01 Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
03 Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
