Senior Professional, Creative Producer, Retail Marketing Global

Global Creative Operations is a team of enterprise thinkers, who are experts in bringing ideas to life. We operationalize, resource, track, manage and execute projects in partnership with Global Brand Creative.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Nike is seeking a Creative Producer who can manage and drive multi-faceted projects, ensuring they are executed on time, within budget and at Nike Standards. Creative Producers are responsible for intaking briefs from Brand partners, building workback schedules, managing budgets, ensuring work is reviewed and producing content for every track of work they are assigned to. The Creative Producer knows the exact status of their project(s), works cross-functionally to problem-solve opportunities and risks, and elevates as needed to the Studio Director. Global Creative Producers are the key driver of creative workstreams and are responsible for managing and delivering creative output on time to Geo partners.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Manages and drives projects within the creative studio – Global Brand Creative Retail
• Knowledge of retail workstreams across store design, seasonal design and seasonless store design.
• Drives OneMarketing process, to ensures work moves forward, creative reviews gates are hit and assets are delivered on time and within allocated budget
• Master of PM 101: project tracking, vendor relationships and contracts, budget management, POs and invoicing, escalating risks, identifying new opportunities and collaborating with their peers to share best practices
• Communicates risks, opportunities and solutions to partners and stakeholders
• Fosters positive ways of working and implements strategic solutions to keep the workstreams on track
• Manage and facilitate a variety of creative projects, with a focus on retail marketing assets
• Engaged in the creative process from end to end: briefing, creative development and reviews, and asset delivery
• Manage vendor/contractor relationships, partner with our legal team to establish contracts and maintain usage rights 
• Develop timelines and ensure our team is on track to reach these milestones
• Maintain organization and version control across all project documents
• Fine-tune creative briefs with key stakeholders and be the source of information when critical questions come up throughout the life of the project. Working closely with key partners (design, operations, Geo, brand, etc)
• Forecast creative resourcing needs based on incoming requests and stay close to team bandwidth  
• Celebrate our wins and help to adapt when we have setbacks 

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

This is the Nike matrix: They will also be responsible for partnership, communication and problem-solving with Creative Studio teammates, cross functional operations partners, Leadership, Geos and external agencies.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Sales, Fashion, Marketing, Design or a related field
• 8+ year’s experience in brand or design operations
• Experience working on AirTable in strongly perferred
• Ability to work in a matrix environment with multiple business functions
• Understanding of the retail marketplace.
• Strong team player and ability to work with the cross functional partners and senior management on all aspects of the business
• Proven track record of managing complicated creative workstreams and delivering on time & within budget
• Travel 10% of the time