Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
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 visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
The Senior Director, DEI Global Operations & Partnerships is critical to shaping and executing the organization's overarching strategic vision and mission by ensuring operational excellence across the global DEI organization. The person in this role will partner closely with the DEI and HR Leadership team, Legal, Communications, and People Analytics teams.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Serving as a critical partner to the DEI Leadership team, this role champions strategic initiatives, fosters innovation, and evaluates performance metrics to drive sustainable success in a dynamic landscape.
This role needs analytical rigor, and the ability to drive cross-functional alignment to achieve key priorities while measuring the impact and success of these efforts. By monitoring industry trends and data analysis, identifying growth opportunities, and optimizing processes & ways of working, this role ensures the organization remains agile and innovative. The role requires a seasoned strategic thinker and skilled communicator capable of navigating various internal and external business partners, managing cross-functional collaboration, and building partnerships to influence positive change. This role will lead a team of people leaders who are responsible for managing Operations, Partnerships, and Communications.
- A minimum 10 years’ directly relevant experience.
- A Master’s Degree in Human Resources or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- Strategic Planning: Deep process development and execution of operational strategies to align with organizational objectives, ensuring optimized resource use and sustainable growth.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build strategic relationships and unite stakeholders around clear objectives to drive measurable impact across regions.
- Communication: Confidence in leading and complex conversations while fostering a culture of stewardship and belonging across Senior Leaders brands, regions, and geographies.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
Strategic:
- Develop and Implement Strategic Plans: Create and execute operational strategies that align with organizational objectives, ensuring optimal resource utilization, sustainable growth, and effective direction across global operations.
- Drive External Partnerships: Establish and foster strategic relations with external partners and stakeholders to unlock new opportunities, strengthen organizational positioning, and expand global reach.
- Monitor and Report Results: Analyse key performance indicators across the DEI team to measure impact and success. Assess the effectiveness of strategic initiatives, providing comprehensive, data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement on a global scale.
- Strategic Thought Partner: Collaborate with peers and leaders globally to identify and address opportunities through actionable, business-focused strategies tailored to diverse global and regional needs.
Operational:
- Global Operations Management: Develop and implement strategic plans that align with organizational objectives to optimize resource utilization and drive sustainable growth measures across Global DEI.
- Process Optimization: Create and oversee operational processes to ensure efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and adherence to organizational priorities on a global scale.
- Budget Accountability: Manage financial budgets by ensuring accountability, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with strategic priorities, while fostering transparency in financial decision-making.
- Data-Driven Insights: Analyse key performance indicators to measure outcomes, assess strategic effectiveness, and provide data-driven insights and recommendations for continuous improvement globally.
Leadership:
- Strategic Partner: Ability to translate enterprise strategies into meaningful actions for teams, ensuring clarity of business objectives.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Demonstrated ability to unite diverse stakeholders within a shared vision and purpose, driving initiatives across the matrix with clarity and measurable impact.
- Performance and Collaboration: Expertise in creating a culture of high performance, promoting global collaboration, and driving accountability for continuous team experiences.
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.
