Working at the adidas Group in South Africa involves joining a global sporting goods leader focused on retail, supply chain, and corporate operations. Employees experience a fast-paced, sport-driven culture with opportunities across retail stores, HR, and brand management.
PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
- Assist management in day-to-day store maintenance while providing excellent service and observing and maintaining all store policies and procedures.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Includes the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Ensures the highest level of adidas service is given to each customer.
- As needed, completes any regular sales transactions involving cash, credit, checks, etc.
- Involved indirectly with ticketing of products as well as checking paperwork against items received.
- Assists in product flow from stockroom to sales floor on a fill in basis.
- Ensure that Company assets and stock is always secured in order to alleviate shrinkage.
- Assists in the development of displays of merchandise or follow suggestions or schedules provided by the store management team.
- Attain proficiency with the point-of-sale system by acquiring system utilization skills. Ensure integrity is maintained through attention to policy and procedure.
- Uses selling techniques such as add on sales and describing technical information to customers to enhance salesmanship and reach store and position sales goals.
- Greets customers in the store and assists them in finding the right product. Occasionally, serves primarily as a Greeter at the front door during busy workdays.
- Maintaining general housekeeping standards
- Safekeeping of Company assets
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Excellent customer service
- Meeting sales goals
- Selling to customer needs
- People skills
- High energy levels
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Matric certificate
- 2 - 4 years of retail experience
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PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
- Assist management in day-to-day store maintenance while providing excellent service and observing and maintaining all store policies and procedures.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensures the highest level of adidas service is given to each customer.
- As needed, completes any regular sales transactions involving cash, credit, checks, etc.
- Involved indirectly with ticketing of products as well as checking paperwork against items received.
- Assists in product flow from stockroom to sales floor on a fill-in basis.
- Assists in the development of displays of merchandise or follow suggestions or schedules provided by the store management team.
- Attain proficiency with the point-of-sale system by acquiring system utilization skills. Ensure integrity is maintained through attention to policy and procedure.
- Uses selling techniques such as add on sales and describing technical information to customers to enhance salesmanship and reach store and position sales goals.
- Greets customers in the store and assists them in finding the right product. Occasionally, serves primarily as a Greeter at the front door during busy workdays.
- Maintaining general housekeeping standards (Including cleaning of the store)
- Safekeeping of Company assets
- Loss prevention, monitoring sales floor and reporting any suspicious activity and follow security procedures/ SLAP.
- Ensure they take part in in-store training or digital training provided by the company (Atticus/AREA) to ensure they have product knowledge and role best practice.
- Familiarize themselves with Power BI tools to have more understanding of store performance, best sellers / blackhole product.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- An absolute passion for retail & customer service
- Ability to use your initiative
- Clear and upbeat communication skills
- Flexibility- you can help during the week, during evenings and weekends too
- Previous fashion retail experience will be highly regarded but is not essential
- Adaptability, being able to handle various tasks and adapt to changing circumstances/situations
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL HAVE:
- The passion to work within a team to deliver great results.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced, high volume retail environment.
- Enthusiasm.
- A love for fashion and great confidence to style your customer with any look they want to create!
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Matric certificate
- 0 - 1 years of retail experience
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PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
- Assist management in day-to-day store maintenance while providing excellent service and observing and maintaining all store policies and procedures.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensures the highest level of adidas service is given to each customer.
- As needed, completes any regular sales transactions involving cash, credit, checks, etc.
- Involved indirectly with ticketing of products as well as checking paperwork against items received.
- Assists in product flow from stockroom to sales floor on a fill-in basis.
- Assists in the development of displays of merchandise or follow suggestions or schedules provided by the store management team.
- Attain proficiency with the point-of-sale system by acquiring system utilization skills. Ensure integrity is maintained through attention to policy and procedure.
- Uses selling techniques such as add on sales and describing technical information to customers to enhance salesmanship and reach store and position sales goals.
- Greets customers in the store and assists them in finding the right product. Occasionally, serves primarily as a Greeter at the front door during busy workdays.
- Maintaining general housekeeping standards (Including cleaning of the store)
- Safekeeping of Company assets
- Loss prevention, monitoring sales floor and reporting any suspicious activity and follow security procedures/ SLAP.
- Ensure they take part in in-store training or digital training provided by the company (Atticus/AREA) to ensure they have product knowledge and role best practice.
- Familiarize themselves with Power BI tools to have more understanding of store performance, best sellers / blackhole product.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- An absolute passion for retail & customer service
- Ability to use your initiative
- Clear and upbeat communication skills
- Flexibility- you can help during the week, during evenings and weekends too
- Previous fashion retail experience will be highly regarded but is not essential
- Adaptability, being able to handle various tasks and adapt to changing circumstances/situations
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL HAVE:
- The passion to work within a team to deliver great results.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced, high volume retail environment.
- Enthusiasm.
- A love for fashion and great confidence to style your customer with any look they want to create!
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Matric certificate
- 0 - 1 years of retail experience
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PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
- Assist management in day-to-day store maintenance while providing excellent service and observing and maintaining all store policies and procedures.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensures the highest level of adidas service is given to each customer.
- As needed, completes any regular sales transactions involving cash, credit, checks, etc.
- Involved indirectly with ticketing of products as well as checking paperwork against items received.
- Assists in product flow from stockroom to sales floor on a fill-in basis.
- Assists in the development of displays of merchandise or follow suggestions or schedules provided by the store management team.
- Attain proficiency with the point-of-sale system by acquiring system utilization skills. Ensure integrity is maintained through attention to policy and procedure.
- Uses selling techniques such as add on sales and describing technical information to customers to enhance salesmanship and reach store and position sales goals.
- Greets customers in the store and assists them in finding the right product. Occasionally, serves primarily as a Greeter at the front door during busy workdays.
- Maintaining general housekeeping standards (Including cleaning of the store)
- Safekeeping of Company assets
- Loss prevention, monitoring sales floor and reporting any suspicious activity and follow security procedures/ SLAP.
- Ensure they take part in in-store training or digital training provided by the company (Atticus/AREA) to ensure they have product knowledge and role best practice.
- Familiarize themselves with Power BI tools to have more understanding of store performance, best sellers / blackhole product.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- An absolute passion for retail & customer service
- Ability to use your initiative
- Clear and upbeat communication skills
- Flexibility- you can help during the week, during evenings and weekends too
- Previous fashion retail experience will be highly regarded but is not essential
- Adaptability, being able to handle various tasks and adapt to changing circumstances/situations
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL HAVE:
- The passion to work within a team to deliver great results.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced, high volume retail environment.
- Enthusiasm.
- A love for fashion and great confidence to style your customer with any look they want to create!
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Matric certificate
- 0 - 1 years of retail experience
go to method of application »
PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
- Assist management in day-to-day store maintenance while providing excellent service and observing and maintaining all store policies and procedures.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensures the highest level of adidas service is given to each customer.
- As needed, completes any regular sales transactions involving cash, credit, checks, etc.
- Involved indirectly with ticketing of products as well as checking paperwork against items received.
- Assists in product flow from stockroom to sales floor on a fill-in basis.
- Assists in the development of displays of merchandise or follow suggestions or schedules provided by the store management team.
- Attain proficiency with the point-of-sale system by acquiring system utilization skills. Ensure integrity is maintained through attention to policy and procedure.
- Uses selling techniques such as add on sales and describing technical information to customers to enhance salesmanship and reach store and position sales goals.
- Greets customers in the store and assists them in finding the right product. Occasionally, serves primarily as a Greeter at the front door during busy workdays.
- Maintaining general housekeeping standards (Including cleaning of the store)
- Safekeeping of Company assets
- Loss prevention, monitoring sales floor and reporting any suspicious activity and follow security procedures/ SLAP.
- Ensure they take part in in-store training or digital training provided by the company (Atticus/AREA) to ensure they have product knowledge and role best practice.
- Familiarize themselves with Power BI tools to have more understanding of store performance, best sellers / blackhole product.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- An absolute passion for retail & customer service
- Ability to use your initiative
- Clear and upbeat communication skills
- Flexibility- you can help during the week, during evenings and weekends too
- Previous fashion retail experience will be highly regarded but is not essential
- Adaptability, being able to handle various tasks and adapt to changing circumstances/situations
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL HAVE:
- The passion to work within a team to deliver great results.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced, high volume retail environment.
- Enthusiasm.
- A love for fashion and great confidence to style your customer with any look they want to create!
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Matric certificate
- 0 - 1 years of retail experience
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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:
- Strategic guidance and input on Team Sport (Football, Motorsport, Basketball, Golf) to drive market share gains and deliver absolute sport credibility across all countries in EM South
- Strategic guidance and input on Sport Partnerships + Properties to maximize the commercial and brand opportunity for adidas and the partner
Key Responsibilities:
- Define the partnership product strategy for all Team Sport partners
- Guide the full partnership product process which includes range building, range selection, range extension and local badging
- Manage external and internal stakeholders to ensure all product development deadlines are met
- Develop and implement the Team Sport category product strategy for EMS to deliver market leadership across all key categories
- Work closely with direct reports to deliver a compelling range/concept selection for EMS by balancing local consumer; global brand; and commercial considerations
- Deliver net sales and profitability (GIM) by managing pricing, margin, and the product mix across all key markets
- Lead the seasonal analysis of the full marketplace to understand trends, competitor product assortments and pricing.
- Proactively drive cluster range enhancements (including product development) that meet local needs and reflect differentiation in marketplace where required.
- Support seasonal Brand Activations by aligning with BA/Omni team on Marketing plans; communication tools; activation tools; and by providing sports marketing support to ensure our partners get access to the best of adidas.
- Lead, coach and develop direct reports
Key Relationships:
- Director CTC & Mops EM South
- EMS Category Management Team.
- Cluster Demand Planning team
- EMS commercial channel Teams (DTC, Ecom, WHS)
- EM + Global BU’s
KPIs:
- Net Sales and GIM%
- Product development milestones met
- Partner Product KPI’s
- Range efficiency targets; range size and efficiency (incl. overlap)
- Market Share
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Merchandising, category management/planning, assortment planning and/or retail experience, with a distinct track record of success within the Sport Industry
- Knowledge of Sport industry within South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria (experience in Football beneficial)
- Product development for sport teams essential
- Experience managing partners essential
- Exposure to other disciplines preferable, e.g. sports marketing, brand communication, retail or sales experience
- Strong presentation/communications and influencing skills
- Strong numerical / analytical skills
- Intermediate to advanced skills in MS Office – Excel and PowerPoint key
- Structured, organized and process orientated
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment under pressure
- Industry: Preferably in retail
- Exposure: Sport
Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree (Marketing/Business/Merchandising)
- A minimum of 10+ years equivalent professional experience
- Experience working within a Global Sport Brand (Football preferred)
- People Leadership experience for a minimum of 5 years
- Fluent in English
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PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
- Assist management in day-to-day store maintenance while providing excellent service and observing and maintaining all store policies and procedures.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensures the highest level of adidas service is given to each customer.
- As needed, completes any regular sales transactions involving cash, credit, checks, etc.
- Involved indirectly with ticketing of products as well as checking paperwork against items received.
- Assists in product flow from stockroom to sales floor on a fill-in basis.
- Assists in the development of displays of merchandise or follow suggestions or schedules provided by the store management team.
- Attain proficiency with the point-of-sale system by acquiring system utilization skills. Ensure integrity is maintained through attention to policy and procedure.
- Uses selling techniques such as add on sales and describing technical information to customers to enhance salesmanship and reach store and position sales goals.
- Greets customers in the store and assists them in finding the right product. Occasionally, serves primarily as a Greeter at the front door during busy workdays.
- Maintaining general housekeeping standards (Including cleaning of the store)
- Safekeeping of Company assets
- Loss prevention, monitoring sales floor and reporting any suspicious activity and follow security procedures/ SLAP.
- Ensure they take part in in-store training or digital training provided by the company (Atticus/AREA) to ensure they have product knowledge and role best practice.
- Familiarize themselves with Power BI tools to have more understanding of store performance, best sellers / blackhole product.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- An absolute passion for retail & customer service
- Ability to use your initiative
- Clear and upbeat communication skills
- Flexibility- you can help during the week, during evenings and weekends too
- Previous fashion retail experience will be highly regarded but is not essential
- Adaptability, being able to handle various tasks and adapt to changing circumstances/situations
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL HAVE:
- The passion to work within a team to deliver great results.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced, high volume retail environment.
- Enthusiasm.
- A love for fashion and great confidence to style your customer with any look they want to create!
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Matric certificate
- 0 - 1 years of retail experience
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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:
- The purpose of the Category Management team is to develop product ranges by category to best meet the needs of the local consumers, profitably.
For this role specifically:
- Deliver a globally aligned and locally relevant product range for the entire Lifestyle category (Originals 50% SOB/ Sportswear 25% SOB) in EMS, focused on delivering the company sales growth aspirations per sales channel
- Sustainably grow profitability and market share for the Lifestyle Category (Originals + Sportswear)
- Manage the seasonal go-to-market (GTM) process for Lifestyle to build the optimal product offering, considering the local consumer and channel requirements.
- Be the product expert and provide the relevant support for all Marketing Brand Activation plans
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the CTC Director to develop and define the Lifestyle product strategy (including lifecycle management for all lifestyle key franchises) for the local market at a channel level (Sportswear addition expands scope to commercial distribution)
- Develop a product range that seamlessly merges Originals and Sportswear delivering a Footwear, Apparel and Accessories offer that is carefully segmented by channel/account and meets of the customer/consumer
- Work with direct reports (increase from 2x M4 and 1xP1 to 4xM4 and 1xP1) to deliver a compelling range/concept selection for EM South by balancing local consumer, global brand and commercial considerations and supporting the overall business strategy of the channels.
- Lead Go to Market (GTM) process to engage channels and customers and collaboratively build the strongest viable product mix (commercial distribution now included)
- Deliver net sales and profitability (GIM) by managing pricing, margin, and the product mix across Lifestyle (articles managed doubles)
- Ownership of product demand forecasting which most accurately reflects the customer and consumer demand in the market
- Seasonal analysis of marketplace to understand trends, competitor product assortments and pricing.
- Proactively drive cluster range enhancements (including product development) that meet local needs and reflect differentiation in marketplace where required. Work closely with the Lifestyle Hub team (Originals + Sportswear) and Local Sourcing to deliver these.
- Own the range architecture for Lifestyle category including range guidance, brand focus and local pricing requirements.
- Monitor and maintain the accuracy of product data available to the business via the pricing matrix.
- Conduct monthly analysis of sell-through performance, sell out, of the relevant categories and make adjustments to the range where necessary.
- Support seasonal Brand Activations by aligning with BA/Omni team on Marketing plans; communication tools; activation tools; and by providing sports marketing support to ensure our partners get access to the best of adidas.
- Lead, coach and develop direct reports
Key Relationships:
- Director CTC & Mops EM South
- EMS Cluster Category Management Team.
- Cluster Demand Planning team
- EMS commercial channel Teams (DTC, Ecom, WHS)
- EM BU’s
KPIs:
- Net Sales and GIM%
- Range efficiency targets; range size and efficiency (incl. overlap)
- Market Sales vs Plan
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Marketing, merchandising, category management/planning, assortment planning and/or retail experience, with a distinct track record of success
- Exposure to other disciplines preferable, e.g. brand communication, retail or sales experience
- Strong presentation/communications and influencing skills
- Strong numerical / analytical skills
- Intermediate to advanced skills in MS Office – Excel and PowerPoint key
- Structured, organized and process orientated
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment under pressure
- Industry: Preferably in retail/apparel/ FMCG
- Exposure: Retail / FMCG / Fashion
Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree in Marketing/Business
- 10+ years equivalent professional experience in Category Management/Merchandising
- People Leadership experience for a minimum of 3 years
- Fluent in English
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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
- Responsible for supporting the Senior Director Business Units Football, Basketball, Motorsport & Golf defining Emerging Markets’ short and medium-term objectives for the Football Footwear and Hardware business.
- Implement global Go-To-Market strategies in a regionally relevant way, working closely with each cluster’s Category Management team, considering different consumer needs and distribution channels.
- Responsible for building a product range for the dedicated Category that fulfils the needs of the EM Hub and Clusters, which is competitive in terms of completeness, structure, price and margin.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the generation and execution of a 3-5 year category plan for the assigned business segment, based on overall EM strategic business plan and balanced with the needs of the adidas brand horizontally.
- Assemble a compelling, commercial, viable range/concept selection for the assigned business segments, to support the overall brand strategy, purpose and business direction for each Cluster within Emerging Markets.
- Deliver the seasonal product range through the respective Cluster Category Management leads (including a “Category Power Pack” selection), balancing both brand and commercial considerations and supporting the overall business strategy.
- Coordinate and drive Special Make-Up (SMU) brief submissions from Clusters to the Global BU.
- Provide EM BU’s input to the Global HQ (consolidated from all Clusters) to include clear and substantive insight (future trends and incremental business opportunities) and input on key concepts and category activation plans.
- Maintain and deliver regular analyses on the category sell-in, sell-out, margin, article productivity ensuring they meet the financial expectations set in the short and mid-term goals across all channels, segments in EM Clusters.
- Provide support to the Sr. BU Director in aligning net sales objectives, margins, pricing, range architecture with each Cluster.
KPIs:
- EM Brand Health KPIS (Brand momentum, Net Promoter Score, Spontaneous purchase intent)
- Business segment Market Share vs. plan in each Cluster within Emerging Markets
- EM Direct Business segment Contribution vs Plan
- EM Category Range Efficiency, SKU targets, Pricing targets
- EM Net Sales, Category growth, Key Franchise growth/share of NS and Go-in Margin
Key Relationships:
- Cluster CTC/Category Management
- EM Hub CtC and MOPS team
- Global Football BU
- EM Business Intelligence teams; Strategy Teams & Demand Planning teams
- EM DTC, WHS and E-com teams
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Passionate about sports, preferably Football with product-ranging specific knowledge.
- Consumer-focused with deep product and range understanding with an excellent ability to balance brand and commercial aspects and build channel specific GTM solutions
- Cross-functional marketing knowledge and market experience; strong understanding of Retail, eCom and WHS channels in sporting goods, fashion or other youth culture brands.
- Ability to guide optimal range building as per segmentation strategy and option plan (product type, gender, price points) for different channels.
- Proactive mindset (engaging & impact-oriented), ability to think end-to-end.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with different international cultures.
- Good organizational and time management skills.
- Commercial acumen: numerical and analytical skills.
- Good communication (both written and verbal), presentation and facilitation skills (small and large groups).
- Ability to travel, domestic or international, as required.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree in business, ideally with Marketing and sales focus or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years Merchandising experience including Sales and Retail exposure, ideally in sporting goods, fashion or other youth culture brands.
- Fluent English (verbal and written).
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) as well as Power BI tools.
- Proficiency with AI and its applications to category management/merchandising is a plus.
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