Senior Administrative Assistant - North America Retail Marketing

Title: Senior Administrative Assistant

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 11 months contract

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, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Nike, Inc. is in perpetual motion. Administrative employees help Nike teams around the world keep up with the company’s rapid pace. They act as liaisons embedded in business functions and geographies. Their talents — problem-solving, organization, time management, and more — help fuel the success of their teams. Nike’s diverse group of administrative assistants and receptionists embodies professionalism and models core Nike values to guests and fellow employees.

We’re looking for a Senior Administrative Assistant who has a proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment. You have strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks. You can take initiative, follow through on requests until completion, and use a keen attention to detail.

You'll perform a wide range of administrative duties, including complex calendar management, booking travel, coordinating meetings and events, producing, editing, and reformatting documents and correspondence; preparing expense reports and purchase orders; updating organizational charts; coordinating department or equipment moves; and providing support to a large diverse team of people with a variety of management styles.

This opportunity also involves using your computer skills to create high-quality graphic and text PowerPoint or Keynote presentations often under tight time frames. In addition, you'll prepare special reports requiring the selection of relevant information from a variety of sources, incorporating that information into complex Excel spreadsheets. You may also be required to maintain ongoing reports or databases, department websites, shared drives, and SharePoint sites

As our Senior Administrative Assistant, you will support the Senior Director of North America Retail Marketing, Senior Director of Retail Brand and Senior Director of Visual Merchandising & Styling.

• Typically requires a high school diploma or equivalent and a minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience
• Minimum of 3 years of administrative work experience required
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with a variety of personalities including senior-level executives
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced team environment with sometimes high levels of ambiguity and independence with sometimes varying working hours
• Proven ability to organize, prioritize, and appropriately handle highly confidential and sensitive information
• Experience creating high-quality presentations using PowerPoint is required
• Highly Proficient in Keynote, Illustrator, Excel, and Microsoft Outlook
• Ability to take initiative, follow through on requests until completion, and use a keen attention to detail
• Experience working with budgets is strongly preferred
• Previous Nike work experience is a plus
• Ability to occasionally work outside of core business hours