Lead, Business Integration, Local Creation GC

Sits within Local Creation Business Integration, reporting to the Senior Manager, Business Integration. It enables Local Creation's mission to create products with greater speed, relevance, and cultural authenticity for athletes and consumers across GC. The position helps shape the future operating model for Local Creation GC, strengthens cross-functional ways of working, and leads high-visibility initiatives across product creation, operations, and seasonal execution.

• Lead Business Integration across GC Local Creation, translating strategy and insights into integrated priorities, plans, and execution.
• Lead cross-functional seasonal initiatives end to end, aligning decisions, dependencies, risks, and delivery.
• Partner across functions to simplify governance, standardise ways of working, and improve speed, accountability, and decision quality.
• Build scalable frameworks, tools, and decision-ready reporting that strengthen execution for teams and senior leadership.
• Own integrated seasonal calendars, gates, and communication rhythms across apparel and footwear.
• Evolve processes, toolkits, and learning for expanded creation capabilities.
• Create business updates and lead the weekly cross-functional leadership rhythm from pre-alignment through decisions and follow-through.
• Partner with senior leadership to plan all-hands meetings and leadership on-sites, and facilitate workshops that turn strategy into action.
• Translate leadership direction and team feedback into clear priorities, ownership, and operating mechanisms.

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional programmes from strategy through execution, with measurable business impact and senior leadership visibility.
• Strong strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to diagnose issues, synthesise data and insights, evaluate trade-offs, and recommend clear actions.
• Analytical thinking: ability to interpret complex data, identify patterns, and extract actionable insights; applies structured thinking to solve problems, inform decision-making, and continuously improve operational performance.
• Ability to translate strategy into practical roadmaps, operating plans, governance, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience designing or evolving operating models, scalable frameworks, processes, and ways of working that improve speed, clarity, and effectiveness.
• A hands-on, builder mindset with the ability to move between executive-level thinking and detailed execution.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, executive storytelling, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust and alignment across functions and leadership levels.
• Strong knowledge of the GC marketplace across Wholesale and Direct, with an emphasis on product and consumer strategy.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a continuous improvement mindset, with a passion for simplifying complexity and improving how teams work.
• Experience with collaborative and visual working tools such as Miro, and project or workflow management platforms such as Airtable, Smartsheet, or similar tools.
• Curiosity and practical experience using AI-powered tools to improve productivity, planning, insights, and decision-making.
• Strong Excel and PPT/Keynote skills.

• Experience in sportswear, athletic footwear, apparel, consumer products, or retail.
• Experience from Merchandising, Product Operations, Business Operations, Program Management, Product Creation, Consulting, Creative Operations, Innovation, Planning, or another complex cross-functional environment where clarity, alignment, and execution are critical to success.

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