Manager, Brand Communications (US Sports)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

Support the development of an integrated, horizontal marketing communication approach for select US Sports product concepts and key sport moments to create demand for the adidas brand.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create & execute comms plans with consistent and clear objectives / KPIs for reach, resonance and reactions.
• Support development of communication tools from conception to implementation, ensuring all projects are on brief, on budget and meet brand standards.
• Assist with management of global and local agencies across projects and activities for the business unit: agency briefing process and development of concepts and creative elements.
• Collaborate with local markets and global brand comms on the activation of annual category plans.
• Support consistency across all sport categories to ensure clear adidas US sports takeaways that ladder to the overall strategy
• Support horizontal planning for brand communication function within BU
  • Oversee seasonal sample process in support of photoshoots, partner seeding, key moments on behalf of US Sports
  • Support precap and recap process in accordance to NAM Activation Planning Process by tracking US Sports projects, collating results, learnings and best practice sharing
  • Maintain, track and manage budget for brand communications function within BU

Key Relationships:

US Sports BU Leaders & NCAA Leadership

X-Category Brand Communications Teams

NAM Brand Comms Planning

adidas Local Markets

adidas Finance / Controlling

adidas Procurement

Creative Agencies

External partners and key accounts

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to influence without authority by building productive relationships with constituents.
• Good understanding of consumer behavior , brand building, demand creation, digital, and planning.
• Strong marketing experience (i.e. communications, campaign development and execution, ecommerce, digital).

• Understanding of an ever-changing marketing landscape and strong experience in project management.
• Ability to influence and collaborate with internal and external multidisciplinary groups: product marketing, design, advertising, PR, digital, retail, events, consumer engagement, ecom, newsroom etc.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of and passion for the sports industry inclusive of NCAA.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Marketing, Communications, Retail, Digital or a related field.
• 3+ years' industry and / or relevant work experience.

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• COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need
• OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
• INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
• TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
• INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company's standards.
• RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

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Job Title: Manager, Brand Communications (US Sports)

Brand: adidas

Location: Portland

TEAM: Marketing & Communications

State: OR

Country/Region: US

Contract Type: Full time

Number: 510058

Date: Apr 17, 2024