Lead, Energy Marketing Operations, Global

Marketing Operations Lead

The Energy Brand team is the engine for provocation within Nike Inc. We're tasked with denting culture and pushing boundaries beyond what's known or expected across all sports. We're storytellers, strategic thinkers, and brand builders. To land the best work for Nike and our consumer, the Energy Brand Planning and Operations team is the foundation to Brand's success. We establish the infrastructure, tools, and systems that enable the brand and business functions to operate smoothly and with precision from strategic seasonal kickoffs, through code gates, to the consumer launch.

We're proactive, solutions-oriented and committed to operational excellence.

We are seeking a Marketing Operations lead to establish how Global Energy Marketing plans, builds, and delivers world-class collaborations, storytelling, and brand experiences. This role owns the operating rhythms, budget discipline, tools, and reporting that keep work moving on time, on scope, and on budget.

This is a highly influential individual-contributor role for a structured yet flexible, proactive and direct, collaborative operator who can create clarity across complex, matrixed teams. You will drive accountability, simplify ambiguity, and keep marketing execution moving in a fast-paced, non-linear environment.

• Lead seasonal marketing milestones, kickoffs, cross-functional integrations, and decision-making forums that move work forward.
• Establish and maintain operating rhythms, communication cadences, and clear ways of working across teams.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve execution and operating processes to increase clarity, efficiency, and accountability.
• Produce and/or project manage critical projects while driving the overall seasonal milestones
• Partner with production to forecast resources and creative op model.
• Optimize team workflows with emerging tools and AI-enabled ways of working where they improve speed, visibility, or quality.
• Manage creative vendors and cross-functional inputs to support high-quality marketing delivery.

• Plan, manage and track the budget across projects and seasons, working closely with finance and marketing teams.
• Manage contacts, vendor set-up, SoWs and purchase orders.
• Partner with marketing leads to allocate, optimize and calibrate the budget based on priorities, shifts and business needs.
• Support alignment between marketing plans, concept maps, product priorities, and team resourcing.

• Be a thought partner to senior leaders of Global Brand and Ops & Planning and a key cross-functional partner to the business integration and product teams.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities across the brand portfolio and proactively drive resolution.
• Translate complex inputs into clear plans, recommendations, and operating decisions.
• Enable teams to work more effectively by simplifying complexity and improving ways of working.

You will report to the Director of Brand Planning & Ops, Energy. Your key partners will be:

• Global Brand Management
• Creative Studio, Social, Digital teams
• Product & Merchandising
• Sports Marketing
• Communications
• Marketplace & City Teams

You'll also engage with external partners, designers, artists, and cultural innovators who help shape Nike's presence in culture. This role does not have direct people management responsibility but operates with significant influence across teams ad projects.

• At least 6 years of experience in marketing operations, project management, strategy, or related roles within a global, matrixed organization. Preferred experience working with/or around creative partners and cultural collaborators.
• Proven ability to build and iterate marketing processes, operating models, and tools.
• Proactive, confident communicator who can influence without authority and operate effectively with senior leaders.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving progress through change.
• Strong understanding of seasonal marketing workflows, go-to-market planning, and consumer-led brand strategy.
• Highly organized, systems-oriented thinker with strong project and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear narratives, plans, and recommendations.
• Proficiency with planning and collaboration tools (e.g., Airtable, Smartsheet, Box, Tableau or similar).
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field; will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training

Position Location & Schedule This position is based at our incredibly beautiful worldwide campus headquarters location in Beaverton, Oregon. You'll work a "4/1 hybrid" schedule
- Mondays
- Thursdays are in the office and it's optional if you'd like to work Fridays from the Nike campus office or your home office.

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…