Lead Professional, NA Comms Planning & Operations

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH 

 You’ll work closely with communications peers across the North America communications team including our brand, employee, media and creator storytelling teammates. You will also work closely with your global operations teammates to synthesize key planning and operations best practices; approaches and learnings to adapt and amplify with the NA communications team.  

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR 

 We’re looking for a Lead Professional, NA Communications Planning & Operations who is seasoned at driving operational excellence and rigor in all aspects of planning and operations within a fast paced and dynamic functional environment. Your experience will deliver essential capabilities in thought partnership, planning and operations to support and scale communications effectiveness across the NA communications team.  This person is also responsible for helping our geo brand teams implement a measurement approach building on the foundations of our global functional metrics. By executing operational strategies and establishing streamlined processes, the Lead Professional will ensure the team consistently delivers high-impact brand and business communications work and moves at speed to prioritize, align and activate our must win projects.    

This person will also be responsible for cultivating a forward-looking approach to planning and operations bringing an “outside in” perspective to continually evolve and improve how we collectively work efficiently and effectively together. The candidate would benefit having a passion for sport, an ability to deliver new ways of thinking and be proactive, creative, and solutions oriented.  

Successful candidates will bring a positive, team-oriented mindset, be curious, have strong strategic instincts and be able to handle ambiguity to work across our geo communications team and liaising with our global planning and operations teammates.  

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR 

This is a strategic role for someone who thrives on building structure, driving action, and bringing order to complexity in a fast-paced environment. 

The ideal candidate is: 

•      A proactive planner who see around corners 

•      A relationship-builder with a service mindset and strong cross-functional collaboration skills 

•      A doer who loves structure, process, and creating order from ambiguity 

•      A calm, confident operator who shines during fast-paced execution moments 

•      Someone who takes pride in getting things done—right, on time, and with excellence 

The ideal candidate brings: 

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