Social Impact Projects Director
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are looking for a Social Impact Projects Director for our North American headquarters in Portland, OR.
The Social Impact Projects Director leads and executes Social Impact programs including:
- Managing the partner network of nonprofits and social enterprises
- Providing strategic alignment and thought leadership with the core Cultural Heartbeats team to execute against brand calendar moments of Honoring Black Excellence, Pride, and International Day of the Girl.
- Working closely with Diversity & Inclusion, Brand and BU functions to integrate sustained social programming co-created with the partner network into brand narratives and stories that authenticates messaging and creates meaningful actions.
Confidence, Collaboration and Creativity are our “3 C’s” which drive the culture of adidas. We know that Diversity & Inclusion connects and influences the “3 C’s” and have made that a priority for adidas with our North American President’s full commitment. We are excited to explore the opportunities that Purpose can bring to our colleagues, customers, and the communities we serve.
DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILTIES
- Drive overall purpose pillar activation plans from strategic inception to grass roots execution and approach to amplification. (Global Purpose Pillars: Breaking Barriers, One Starting Line, End Plastic Waste).
- Manages and leads key partners from portfolio of social impact partners, open-source partners as it relates to pillar programming and collective of purpose-driven creators (Entertainment & Influencer Marketing, Sports Marketing and Purpose-specific).
- Leads the strategic development, nonprofit partners, guidance and consultation of key consumer-facing cultural heartbeats: Honoring Black Excellence, Pride, and International Day of the Girl on behalf of Purpose.
- Creates turn-key, innovative, human-centered programming, pilots, and initiatives that drive impact pillars at scale.
- Supports strategic guidance and consultation to brand business units/ functions/communities (adidas Runners, adidas Football Collective) as it relates to purpose-driven ideas, activations, product creation, collaborations, innovations and messaging.
- Manages Activation and Programming budget.
- Functional expertise and cultural review through Global Cultural Oversight Team and Cultural Guidance Playbook.
Who We’re Looking For
A strong fit for the role will have:
- University degree
- 10+ years of progressive experience; with at least 3 years of experience in social impact/programming/brand/communications
- Proven track record of leading and implementing larger-scale global programs and projects
- Management experience
- Purpose-minded, networker, customer-focused and global thinker
- Superior knowledge on community outreach, social impact and developing programs/curriculum
- Excellent influencing skills with high credibility in senior management
- Deals effectively with difficult situations, negotiates persuasively, has a clear point of view and conveys ideas concisely
- Ability to work in and thrive in a changing business environment
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Global Purpose strategy
- Ability to oversee and implement Global Purpose social impact commitments
- Partner + impact programming management
- Budget planning & accountability
About Us
At adidas we believe that through sport, we have the power to change lives.
There’s plenty of change around right now as workouts move from the gym to the garage and we take a timeout from many of the activities we’re passionate about.
Our ambition is to be the best sport brand in the world and with that comes plenty of challenges. We thrive on solving these with the imagination and experience of our incredible teammates.
We’re all on the home team for now — we’d love for you to join ours.
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