Catalyst Relationship Management Senior

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE, Inc.'s storytellers, Marketing and Communication sets the brand tone. A creative force of specialists tell Nike's stories of innovation and sport through advertising, brand strategy, digital engagement and product presentation. Using channels ranging from retail stores to social media, Marketing & Communication teams connect the science and art of Nike innovations to the hearts and minds of athletes around the world.

Based in Berlin, we are seeking a Catalyst Relationship Senior Professional Our team is accountable for:

- Humanising our brand through our position and partnerships in youth culture - influential people, communities, and entities from the worlds of music and art, design, fashion, sneaker culture, sport* and new language of sport* and more.
- Humanising our brand through relationships with cultural catalyst, that create the future of sport* and energise the business and brand
- Providing outstanding service and brand management for all Catalyst relationships
- Engaging visionary members with future forward Catalyst concepts and ideas which reimagines the future of sport*
- Owning targeted creative (and extensions) to specific catalyst city needs
- Fuelling our Global and European engine with sharp, relevant insights that can seed new and future ideas

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a relationship professional with in depth knowledge and passion for Berlin lifestyle culture, Berlin music scene and connection to Berlin cultural movers: they are catalyst guardians who are curious, opportunists, communicators, explorers, futurists, and strategic connectors. They live in a fluid world, permeating subcultures, trans versing zeitgeist, building connections. They see unique opportunities to take risks, expand perception and advance the notion of sport culture through thought provoking intersections with catalysts.

Our next teammate is deliberate in acting as a gate keeper to open doors for experimenting, creating laboratory, a testing ground to strategically push boundaries, incubate, test and learn to envisage and build new space for Nike and sport, when others may not see the opportunity. They start of the chain reaction culturally. They are a source of original enterprise thinking, an influential thought-partner (internally and externally) and an empathetic coach. They will have the freedom to pursue their curiosity and be expected to bring an open-minded, forward-looking outlook to the organisation.

WHAT YOU WORK ON
- Be responsible in identifying, tiering, driving and maintaining a powerful network and portfolio of cultural influencers in Berlin, to Energise the brand and Create the Future of Sport* which respond to specific strategic functional priorities.
- Support The CBM director in landing RL priorities which will support the business fuelling functional and city concept map priorities.
- Provide outstanding service and brand management for all Catalyst relationships partnering with CBM RL junior professional, OPS function and Marketing partners.
- Support, mentor and coach professional II relationships holders.
- Create, based on key Catalyst's insights, Catalyst long terms journey's which will support the business and the Brand and create solid legacy of Nike to the city.
- Oversee all aspects of Catalyst relationship projects - end to end, including contracts, product development, Marketing and communications.
- Gather structured and continuous Catalyst insights to allow us to better serve city members in Berlin, and to feed back to EMEA/Global in order to help longer-term & seasonal concepts.

WHO YOU WORK WITH

You will be part of the Berlin Catalyst Brand Management function, reporting directly to the Berlin Catalyst Director and will work with the Catalyst Brand Management team in Berlin, EMEA and Global, always with a growth mindset to contribute towards a World-class team

Being the CBM representative and partner in crime to cross functional collaboration which involve Catalyst journeys. You will work cross functionally in the Berlin office, particularly with the Brand Management function and the Berlin Brand Creative Studio, but also with key partners such as sports marketing and SCI, aligning on roles & responsibilities, to bring your Catalyst relationships and brand management plans to life.

You will be responsible to build strong external relationships with key catalysts in the city and maintain grow those Relationships.

The shape of your day-to-day work will vary si