USA Nike Jobs - Corporate & Social Responsibility

Marketing Partnership Coordinator - ,

As our Marketing Partnership Coordinator, you'll partner and manage key external sports-based community stakeholders in the United States to ensure depth and authenticity of the CARE Principle in the overall execution of the Brand's voice. You'll liaise with the regional Sustainable Marketplace Managers to maximize the opportunities to leverage national partnership investments to enhance the Brand experience based on key marketplace category priorities. You'll be the central controller of the management of global partnership contracts and agreements. You'll identify and develop opportunities for innovation through strategic partnership management in support of the SB+I Marketplace mission to deliver business growth in the region. In addition, you'll support the Category Manager and Brand Initiatives Manager with the integration of the CARE principle into the region's brand voice to ensure a stronger consumer experience of SB+I through the lens of the key strategic categories.

Brand Initiatives Manager - ,

As our Category Manager - Brand Initiatives, you'll lead the execution of the global category integration strategy through the brand initiative plans across four key categories for FY10, including Football, Running, Basketball and Action Sports (FY11 includes Women's Training, Athletic Training, Sportswear and Kids). You'll drive the strategy for other key social and environmental initiatives, such as emergency response or global brand activation, as it relates to consumer engagement and mobilization across the Nike Brand. You'll support global categories' brand initiatives planning processes to set the integrated social and environmental marketing direction across the team, including advertising, PR, sports marketing, product marketing, retail marketing, digital, presence marketing, grassroots initiatives, etc. You'll ensure that Sustainable Business & Innovation (SB&I) strategic priorities under Innovate for a Better World Through Sport are included in global category marketing, brand and event plans. You'll utilize internal and/or external partnerships to leverage resources and enhance business effectiveness. You'll consult with Consumer Culture team to develop consumer connectivity and concept development around social and environmental issues. In addition, you'll provide input into the process for their team to gain insight from consumers and cultural trends and develop a consumer vision regarding social and environmental issues.

Examples:

Football - Lead, manage and liaise with the Brand and Mobilize teams to implement the global/regional 'Changing Lives Through Football' Changemakers competition
Running - Consult to the Running brand teams to support global initiatives, such as Human Race, by incorporating CARE into their strategic plans, including opportunities for event sustainability
Action Sports - Develop, lead and manage the Considered Collective, an initiative focused on environmental and sustainability issues for Action Sports athletes and fans
Basketball - Develop, facilitate, and execute CARE concepts and content into digital, marketing, PR, operational, sports marketing plans

Senior Environmental Safety & Health Specialist - In-House Manufacturing, St. Louis, MO - ,

As our Senior Environmental Safety & Health (ESH) Specialist, you'll have full ownership of developing and leading the implementation of ESH programs, policies and procedures. You'll also be accountable for developing training materials that support ESH programs. You'll promote employee awareness of ESH through training and continual company-wide communication. You'll also develop, implement and maintain ESH performance measurement programs, including tracking and reporting progress. You'll provide expert technical assistance to the department and the business units. This opportunity also involves representing Nike in internal and external working groups, committees and conferences involving ESH. You'll build effective relationships with the corporate ESH network to ensure system consistency. You'll also ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations pertaining to ESH standards. You'll interface with regulatory agencies and assist during regulatory inspections; develop and manage an accident and injury investigation program; and conduct accident and injury investigations to identify root causes and eliminate potential hazards and reoccurrences. In addition, you'll participate at the initiation phase of equipment installation and set-up to assist in design for safety, health, ergonomic and environmental principles. To ensure that we continue to hire competent, ethical and trustworthy individuals, all candidates must successfully complete a thorough background investigation prior to receiving any offer of employment from Nike.

Considered Water Program Co-op Intern - ,

The Nike Considered Water Program is an environmental sustainability initiative focused on improving wastewater quality and water efficiency in Nike's global supply chain, particularly at textile mills that dye and finish materials for Nike apparel and footwear.

As our Co-op Intern, you'll work approximately 10 hours per week at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, on a year-round, ongoing basis. You'll send email to suppliers to request water use and management data (collected via an online questionnaire and database). You'll review submitted data and lab test reports for accuracy and compliance with applicable local/national environmental standards and Nike water quality guidelines. You'll follow up with suppliers regarding incomplete or missing data. In addition, you'll update a spreadsheet with information from the online database, generate reports and perform occasional data analysis. Flexible schedule: approximately 2-3 days/week at Nike WHQ, 3-5 hours/day, for a total of ten hours/week.

Mobilize Director - ,

As our Mobilize Director, working with the Sustainable Business & Innovation team, you'll deliver strong, focused, creative and original strategies that are SMART and that tackle complexity. You'll need to have demonstrable strategic planning, original major strategy development (such as developing a new business model, or tackling a new major issue in a creative way). You'll turn high-level strategies into executionable plans, and deliver results in a timely, best of quality way. You'll need to be a systems thinker with the ability to focus, edit and delete. You'll manage diverse, senior teams to recruit, retain and develop diverse talent. Litmus test: demonstrable examples of managing senior teams with courage. You'll need a clear leadership style defined and recognized by peers and former direct reports. In addition, you'll manage complex timelines, resources, and talent to deliver results.

The Sustainable Business & Innovation team (previously the Corporate Responsibility team) for Nike Inc has one mission - to innovate for a better world. The team tackles some of the worlds most "wicked" problems - how to create closed loop business models that generate no waste, no CO2 and have equitable and empowered workers across the value chain, and how to enable access to sport for young people around the world. We have three centers of excellence - the Lab, incubating innovative solutions, the Business Integration team, embedding sustainability into the Inc business model and the mobilize team responsible for scaling innovation and fast tracking our work by mobilizing consumers, policy makers, employees, industry and civil society through collaboration, messaging, education and advocacy.

This is a new type of role, so Nike will need someone that comes with a toolkit of key skills that they can leverage to create an innovative center of excellence.