Manager Brand Experience Sports

Purpose: Serve as an event marketing expert through developing and managing strategic event marketing plans that elevate the visibility of the adidas brand to our employees, consumers, customers, and partners.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop, manage, and execute events across the Brand Experience business. This includes GTM, Employee, Consumer, Purpose and Retail.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team partners to develop experiential strategy, production, and event creative.
• Manage agency partners to ideate and execute assigned event activations.
• Develop event briefs, event overviews, event recaps and workbacks.
• Responsible for direction and oversight of rooming lists, transportation manifests, BEOs and other hospitality documents.
• Responsible for management and communication of event budgets
• Responsible for PO's
• Provide timely responses and follow up as needed. Escalate if guidance needs to be provided.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Strong project management skills, oral communication, able to deliver clear, concise information tailored to specific (and potentially varied) target audiences.
• Intermediate knowledge of meeting planning skills (hotel contracts, room sets, catering, production, AV, etc)
• Ability to work within and successfully navigate a cross-functional team.
• Proficiency in budget management.
• Proficiency of industry-standard software, including the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word).
• Ability to cope with change and be flexible.
• Ability to effectively communicate to all levels within the organization.
• Ability to work independently under minimal guidance.
• Ability to manage up to effectively communicate information and raise concerns or request for support.
• Ability to travel by aircraft domestically as needed.

Qualifications:

• Four-year College or university degree, emphasis in marketing or communications preferred.
• Minimum 3 - year meeting planning or event marketing experience.

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  adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  
  
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  adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas' 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
  
  
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  Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
  
  
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  At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday. The working location of this position is Portland, Oregon.
  
  
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  Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.