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Professional, Sports Marketing, Account Specialist, Jordan
Beaverton, Oregon
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About the role
- Team NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes.
- At Jordan Brand, athlete relationships are built with care, trust, and intention.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary point of contact for Jordan Sports Marketing representatives and external partners to fulfill basketball athlete and team product needs.
- Deliver exceptional, personalized service for assigned basketball athletes and team assets, supporting both on-court and off-court product needs.
- Support premium athlete experiences across key relationship moments, including product seeding, brand moments, integrations, events, and athlete journey touchpoints.
- Build meaningful athlete connections through thoughtful service, proactive communication, and strong follow-through.
- Provide white glove product curation and styling recommendations for athletes in partnership with Brand, Athlete Experience, Athlete Insights, Product, and Lead Service Rep teams.
- Track product usage, athlete needs, preferences, and product availability to support proactive planning and service excellence.
- Set up and maintain new accounts within Nike systems, including Aravo and Locker, ensuring accurate and timely data management.
- Manage product orders and support accurate forecasting by analyzing trends, athlete needs, and product usage.
- Maintain and organize product storage areas to enable seamless product access, delivery, reporting, and athlete servicing.
- Manage budgeted product allotment with accuracy, discipline, and clear communication.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, in Business, Sports Marketing, or a related field.
- 3+ years of account, service, operations, or project management experience.
- Proficiency in SAP is critical.
- Ability to handle high-profile communication, athlete service needs, and contractual obligations with discretion and professionalism.
- Ability to prioritize multiple time-sensitive macro and micro priorities and communicate updates with clarity, including difficult news when necessary.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
- The ideal candidate is motivated to do the best work of their career on a hard-working team in an expanding business.
- 3+ years of successful experience in Sports Marketing, marketing, talent, production management, operations, product servicing, or a related function building relationships to support business and marketing strategies.
- Strong understanding of Jordan Brand product, apparel and footwear product processes, basketball culture, sport, fashion, style, and the broader sports and fitness industry.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage budgeted product allotment.
- Ability to collaborate with a wide range of partners including Product, Finance, Operations, field staff, Athlete Experience, Athlete Insights, Brand Marketing, Communications, and program administrators.
- Strong attention to detail and passion for basketball, sport, athletes, product, style, and culture.
- 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.
Nice to have
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, including meeting facilitation and presentation
- PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Office, and Mac Keynote experience preferred.
Skills
- It is a place to explore potential, push boundaries, and bring skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
Company info
- We are looking for a service-minded, relationship-driven, and product-passionate teammate to support Jordan Sports Marketing's basketball athlete and team servicing work. This person will help deliver premium, white glove experiences that strengthen athlete relationships and bring Jordan Brand's athlete-first strategy to life.
- The ideal candidate is motivated to do the best work of their career on a hard-working team in an expanding business. They bring a team-first attitude, operate with pace and precision, and thrive in moments that require creativity, follow-through, and calm execution.
- This role requires someone with a passion for basketball, sport, fashion, style, and culture, along with the ability to understand athlete needs and translate those insights into thoughtful product servicing, product curation, and premium athlete experiences.
- We are looking for a service-minded, relationship-driven, and product-passionate teammate to support Jordan Sports Marketing's basketball athlete and team servicing work.
- This person will help deliver premium, white glove experiences that strengthen athlete relationships and bring Jordan Brand's athlete-first strategy to life.
- They bring a team-first attitude, operate with pace and precision, and thrive in moments that require creativity, follow-through, and calm execution.
- As the Jordan Sports Marketing Account Specialist for Basketball, you will play a key role in athlete service, daily relationship support, product allocation, budget tracking, and delivery of goods for assigned basketball athletes and team assets.
- The assets you support will have high visibility, elevated service expectations, and meaningful brand impact.
- You will help manage end-to-end contractual servicing needs with assigned basketball partners, including daily communication, financial tracking, product allocations, delivery coordination, and follow-through against Sports Marketing contractual obligations.
- You will partner with Jordan Sports Marketing field representatives, Athlete Experience, Athlete Insights, Brand Marketing, Product, Finance, Operations, and other cross-functional teammates to ensure athletes receive the right product, at the right place, at the right time, and within budget.
- You will help capture athlete product feedback, preferences, service needs, and relationship context and share those insights with the right partners across Jordan Brand.
- This role is not simply about fulfilling requests.
- It is about building meaningful athlete connections through product, service, and consistent representation of Jordan Brand at every touchpoint.
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