Jason Letts

About Jason Letts

Collaborative, energetic, and empathetic people leader with a strong curiosity and motivation to build trusted partnerships and drive shared outcomes. Known for fostering genuine relationships, aligning cross‑functional stakeholders, and translating complexity into practical, results‑driven solutions.Brings a career of progressively expanding responsibility with global experience across travel and expense management, strategic sourcing and procurement, sports marketing, corporate governance and operations, compliance, and risk management. Demonstrated success within the sports apparel, manufacturing, and marketing industry. Former NCAA Division I Cross Country and Track & Field athlete.Core strengths include project and program management, expense compliance and governance, procurement oversight, partner and vendor relationship management, strategic sourcing, contract analysis, trend and market analysis, negotiation, sports marketing strategy and activation support, and delivery of measurable cost savings. Recognized for a high level of attention to detail, strong energy, a solutions‑oriented mindset, and a consistent focus on growth and continuous improvement.

Experience

1. Global Strategic Sourcing Manager - Travel, Meetings & Events, Facilities

   Nike

   Aug 2023 — Present · Beaverton, OR, US

   Drove the final negotiations of the Global TMC Master Service Agreement with attention to detail, clarity, & cross-functional alignment across internal & external stakeholders.Global Procurement point of contact while strategizing the annual global hotel program, then conducted the RFP process with assistance from BCD Travel and Advito resulting in a reduction of preferred hotels and delivered overall savings year/year. Supported the Global Airline RFP from a procurement lens while collaborating with key business stakeholders maximizing market advantage and cost avoidance savings, then leading the process to final signature for all the airlines contracts. Managed and executed Nike\'s global hotel, air and ground transportation strategies alongside business partners resulting in improved operational efficiencies and double digit savings. Developed MSA & SOW for Global Travel with a travel visa provider reducing risk to Nike by establishing a formal relationship with a long-time partner and while negotiating an additional 10% savings for their services.Collaborated with the Global Marketing & Events team on strategic meeting management (SMM), initiatives including the creation of an internal Small Meetings Program with assistance from Cvent while simultaneously negotiating the extension of the partnership.Created and guided the RFP process, then supported the implementation for a newly established Conference Center Management program at Nike leading to operational efficiencies and ultimately savings. Supported the development of the Travel & Business Expense Policy eLearning module with internal and external stakeholders (Communications, Global Travel, Compliance, Finance, Risk Management, Training & Development).Conducted regular 1:1 meetings with key internal stakeholders to build the relationship between their teams and Global Procurement with the goal of making our partnership and ways of working with the pipeline as efficient/effective as possible.

Education

• Harvard Business School Online

  Certificate , Financial Accounting

• University of Virginia Darden School of Business

  Certification, Marketing Analytics

• The Wharton School

  Minor, Business Law and History

• University of Pennsylvania

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Political Science and International Relations

• University of Portland

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance and Marketing

Skills

• Management
• Retail
• Sporting Goods
• Analysis
• Brand Management
• Program Management
• Sponsorship
• Merchandising
• Sales
• Inventory Management
• Marketing Strategy
• Competitive Analysis
• Marketing Research
• Event Management
• Trend Analysis
• Visual Merchandising
• Sports Management
• Public Relations
• Advertising
• Fundraising
• Strategic Planning
• Public Speaking
• Concur
• Sap
• Press Releases
• Digital Marketing
• Marketing
• Corporate Finance
• Risk Assessment
• Asset Management
• Business Efficiency
• Financial Analysis
• Expense Management
• Economic Research
• International Economics
• Negotiation
• American Express
• Sports Marketing
• Strategy
• Sportswear