WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
The Global Sales Go-To-Market Excellence team accelerates sales growth by translating sport and marketplace priorities into differentiated sell-in strategies, tools, and experiences. The team brings together GTM Sport, Showroom and Samples, and GTM Operations to enable strong and consistent seasonal execution across geographies.
As part of the GTM Sport team, you will serve as a key connection across Global Sport, Sales, Product, Merchandising, creative, operational, and Geo partners. You will represent the GTM perspective within your assigned sport and translate sport priorities into partner-right experiences that enable Sales readiness and marketplace growth.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a strategic, commercially minded, and highly collaborative leader who can turn sport and marketplace priorities into compelling sell-in strategies, journeys, tools, and experiences. This person understands what Sales teams and marketplace partners need to confidently bring seasonal assortments to market and can connect strategy to execution across complex Global and Geo environments.
The ideal candidate is an influential connector who brings clarity to ambiguity, builds alignment across diverse partners, and keeps teams focused on the most important business and marketplace opportunities.
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
- Experience in Sales, Go-To-Market, strategic planning, retail marketing, merchandising, or a related commercial function. Account-facing Sales experience is preferred.
- Strong commercial and marketplace acumen, with the ability to identify opportunities and use consumer, retail, and business insights to inform priorities and decisions.
- Ability to translate sport, brand, product, and commercial strategies into clear, compelling, and partner-right sales narratives and experiences.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional work and influencing partners without direct authority.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, connect multiple perspectives, and create clarity across competing priorities.
- Strong communication, facilitation, storytelling, and executive presentation skills.
- Experience working across Global and Geo teams and balancing enterprise consistency with local marketplace relevance.
- A collaborative, curious, and continuous-improvement mindset.
- Passion for sport, consumers, and the marketplace.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
- As a Global Sales GTM Sport Lead, you will own the seasonal marketplace sell-in strategy and GTM journey planning for an assigned sport. You will connect Global sport priorities with Geo and partner opportunities, ensuring Sales teams have the stories, tools, education, and experiences needed to confidently bring seasonal assortments to market.
- Shape and lead seasonal sell-in strategies that connect sport, consumer, product, and commercial priorities.
- Identify and prioritize the marketplace opportunities where GTM support can have the greatest business impact.
- Translate strategies into clear, compelling, and partner-right sales narratives, tools, and experiences.
- Lead alignment across Global and Geo teams, bringing clarity to priorities, decisions, roles, and desired outcomes.
- Apply marketplace insights, Geo feedback, and seasonal learning to continuously improve GTM strategies and capabilities.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field, or equivalent education, experience, and training
- Experience in Sales, Go-To-Market, strategic planning, retail marketing, merchandising, or a related commercial function
- Strong commercial and marketplace acumen
- Ability to translate sport, brand, product, and commercial strategies into sales narratives and experiences
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional work and influencing partners without direct authority
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and align competing priorities
- Strong communication, facilitation, storytelling, and executive presentation skills
- Experience working across Global and Geo teams
- Collaborative, curious, and continuous-improvement mindset
- Account-facing Sales experience
- Passion for sport, consumers, and the marketplace
Nike Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nike and has not been reviewed or approved by Nike.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is complemented by options such as a Mega Backdoor Roth and deferred compensation for eligible earners. Financial coaching and structured savings programs support long-term financial security.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a stock discount sits alongside broad-based equity vehicles like RSUs and non-qualified stock options. These avenues expand wealth-building opportunities beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes maternity and paternity time, recently expanded in the U.S. to 16 weeks and extended to part-time retail teammates. Additional supports include childcare assistance at select locations and family-building benefits such as fertility, surrogacy, and adoption.
Nike Insights
What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., we innovate to serve athletes*. Every teammate - from coder to creator - plays a role in making these athletes’ dreams real. Our tech, data, and digital teams push limits every day, building the future of sport and the tools that drive it. Here, curiosity is fuel. Innovation is the game plan. Different perspectives keep us on the offense. You’ll solve challenges worth tackling, grow fast and belong to a team that backs you to do the right thing. Bring your drive. Bring your bold. Let’s move the world, together. Take your first step at nike.com/careers * If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
Why Work With Us
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