Executive Assistant - Jordan Brand Footwear

u work at the pace of the business, communicate effectively and efficiently and understand how prioritize to appropriately handle highly confidential and sensitive information.

WHAT YOU BRING TO NIKE:

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training

• Minimum of 3 - 5 years of administrative work experience required

• At least 1 year of experience supporting a Sr. Director, VP or higher-level executive within a matrixed corporate environment

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills

• Strong reading, writing, math and communication skills

• Proven experience and success working with a variety of high-profile stakeholders (examples: Executive leadership team members or Nike sponsored athletes and collaborators, etc.)

• Ability to work independently as a self-starter and as part of a team making connections in and across teams as you go.

• Exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities.

• Comfort working through ambiguity.

• Previous experience with event planning. Experience with budget creation/management and planning proposals preferred.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel) and virtual meeting tools (Zoom / MS Teams). Experience with Keynote a plus, not required. Experience with AI tools like Chat GPT or Microsoft Copilot a plus, not required.

• Exercise discretion and independent judgement when handling confidential and sensitive information. Prior experience handling sensitive and confidential information is preferred.

• Ability to occasionally work outside of core business hours

• Previous Nike work experience is strongly preferred

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

As an integral support to your leader and critical part of the team, you will be responsible for:

• Calendar Management: Coordinate and manage the leader's schedule, ensuring timely appointments and meetings proactively resolving calendaring conflicts where possible without the involvement of the leader

• Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact between the leader and internal/external stakeholders. Handle email correspondence, responding to inquiries that do not require the VP's involvement promptly and professionally; highlight actionable items and respond when possible.

• Meetings & Events: Securing event space as necessary and handling any budgeting, catering, agenda planning, scheduling, reminders, and working with external parties as needed. Supporting any documentation before, during and/or after to ensure objectives of the meeting / event are met.

• Assist in coordination of materials and information for high visibility meetings/events, internally and externally, including Board of Director meetings.

• Travel Arrangements & Expense Report Management: Make complex domestic and international travel arrangements. Complete and review expense reports in a timely manner.

• Document Preparation/Organization, Presentation & Information Sharing: Draft, review, organize important documents, reports and presentations. At times you may also present and share these documents and/or presentations with the appropriate leaders and teammates accordingly.

• Project Support: Assist in the planning and execution of special projects, ensuring deadlines are met and objectives are achieved.

• Confidentiality: Maintain the highest level of confidentiality regarding sensitive and proprietary information and decisions made by the leaders. Use discretion at all times.

• Office Environment & Teammate Onboarding: Onboard new hires, prep workspaces, equipment, office supplies and schedule meet and greets with the team. Additionally, you may also train and mentor other administrative hires as needed.

• Culture Building & Team Meeting/Offsite Support: Coordinate team/company events, including staff meetings, team-building activities, offsites and other functions to help the team build connections to each other, their leader, the environment and Nike.

• Support team plans, projects, activations or other deliverables as needed.

• Serve as the main point of contact for administrative questions or escalations from other administrative assistants on the team; may coordinate admin staff meetings and share relevant information as appropriate

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.