Manager - Corporate & Government Affairs
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Leads adidas’ Corporate Affairs efforts in the US and Government Affairs at the local level to enhance the public profile of adidas with relevant stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identifies, builds, and maintains relationships with the state and local business community, industry associations, and neighborhood associations.
- Identifies, builds, and maintains relationships with state and local governments.
- Assists with federal government affairs issues, including leading on local aspects of federal government relations issues.
- Serves as lead contact with select non-profit organizations.
Key Relationships:
- NAM Legal
- Social Purpose
- Corporate Communications
- Interacts internally with all levels of organization.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to network and identify strategic opportunities with businesses and industry associations to provide mutually beneficial promotion opportunities.
- Ability to advocate for adidas’ interests to state and local governmental entities.
- Proven ability to apply integrative thinking to strategic planning and decision making.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong computer, research, and analytic capabilities.
- Attention to detail with excellent project management, process, and organizational skills to prioritize multiple projects and activities in a faced paced environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams with diplomacy and tact.
- Ability to reach, analyze, interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and government regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
- Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagram, and/or schedule form.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University Degree in Government, Political Science, Public Administration, or a similarly focused degree
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a strategic lead with a major organization in the areas of Government Affairs, Public Affairs, or Corporate Affairs, or as a staffing lead for a federal, state, or local government official.
- We welcome the combination of experience and education in lieu of a degree.
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.
Job Title: Manager - Corporate & Government Affairs
Brand:
adidas
Location:
Portland
TEAM:
Legal / SEA
State:
OR
Country/Region:
US
Contract Type:
Full time
Number:
513863
Date:
Aug 22, 2024