Senior Manager, Sports​/Train Brand Marketing, NYC

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $ in our lowest geographic market to $ in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience.

Information about benefits can be found here.

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, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Brand Manager to lead the Multi-Sport and Training Brand Marketing efforts in New York City. The ideal candidate should have an unrivaled understanding and deep passion for the city's dynamic sports environment, with expertise spanning across Football, Baseball, Tennis, and Golf as well as understanding the training landscape. This candidate should be a consumer obsessed marketer, a team-first collaborator, energy-giving partner, and brand innovator with an openness to learn.

As part of our New York City Brand Marketing team, the role will report to the NYC Sr. Director of Brand Marketing.

Qualified candidates should have experience leading brand strategy, orchestrating cross-channel marketing plans, navigating partnerships with athletes, leagues, training network and community organizations, and brilliantly executing seasonal activations across the city. Should possess a comprehensive understanding of the multi-sports calendar and display sharp insights into the interest and motivations of the NYC teen athlete. A keen awareness of nuances and intricacies of the NYC sports communities is essential, alongside the ability to lead multiple projects across a matrixed organization.

Must have a deep understanding the nuances of sports across the five boroughs and how to tap into and serve our HS teen athlete across our major sports networks. While bringing in key partners and influencers to build authentic experiences for our consumers.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will partner with our North America Sports and Training Brand Management teams and NYC marketing functional partners to bring a New York City dimension to Nike Football, Tennis, Baseball, Golf and Training. You will lead key NYC grassroots programming throughout the 5 boroughs to connect, push and inspire our HS teen athlete.

You will work with Geo & City Brand and functional partners to drive a robust plan for NYC and continually build new consumer experiences that accelerate the brand and business growth opportunities internally and externally.

You will champion our NYC consumer, specifically our HS teen athlete and regularly share insights to teams in NA and Global.

Part of your role will be the following:

• Obsess the New York City HS Sports teen athlete and their needs, consistently delivering experiences that connect with them and their community.
• Build and deliver the New York City brand strategy for our multisport offense with a focus on Football, Baseball, Tennis, and Golf.
• Lead, manage, and develop your direct report.
• Build and deliver Seasonal plans and drive activations against key sports moments such as but not limited to, NFL Kick Off, US Open, Subway Series, Win Reactives.
• Develop, plan and execute a grassroots Football strategy for the HS teen athlete, inclusive of Girls Flag.
• Build and nurture relationships with the NYC sports leagues, athletes, communities, grassroots partners.
• Partner with Nike Sports Marketing to elevate Athlete storytelling and integration into New York City programming and activations.
• Support an end-to-end insight process, regularly feeding insights and trends from NYC consumers back up through the organization.
• Work cross fuctionally with our NYC Energy and Sportswear team to ensure the intersection of Sport and Sport culture is infused across plans, as well as uncovering cross sport opportunies with Running,…