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JOB PURPOSE

• 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

It includes the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Ensures the highest level of adidas service is given to each customer.
• As needed, complete 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.
• Use selling techniques such as adding on sales and describing technical information to customers to enhance salesmanship and reach store and position sales goals.
• Greetings 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

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• 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.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL HAVE:

• The passion to work within a team delivers 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 Certification or equivalent.
• 0-1 years of retail experience.

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• This role is responsible for conducting weekly product analysis and making recommendations to the business by reviewing sales & stock, best & worst sellers in order to maximize sales and profitability of the own channel full price store fleet.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining and evolving all merchandising analytics suite for EM Retail concept stores.
• Work with Marketing and clusters to track product launches and have the appropriate reporting and product launch recaps. Collaborate with franchise team in validating partners data to derive meaningful product insights and analysis.
• Analyze every aspect of best sellers and worst sellers, in season stock cover management and in season reactivity and provide recommendations based on analysis.
• Drive generation of accurate reporting and sales recaps, weekly and ad hoc, including brand initiative products.
• Participate in weekly trading meetings.  Make call outs of missed opportunities in the business.
• Identify and support with promotional opportunities at the category, concept, collection, and article level to maximize sales for both pre-season and in season for all tiers and regions.
• Construct and deliver daily, weekly and monthly metrics reports.
• Provide fact-based product input and feedback for internal/external stakeholders.
• Manage the Weekly sales & stock intake process and provide key insights on stock/sales.
• Evaluate seasonal option plan in line with Space Management (pre-season).
• Be the SPOC and expert for Power BI.

KPI’s: Net Sales, Sell-through, Margin, Markdown and Weeks cover

The ideal candidate:

• Strong passion for product and the “science” of merchandising
• Understanding of retail merchandising is a must
• Very advanced MS office skills (Excel is a must) and any other retail merchandising process & tool is a clear advantage
• Expertise Power BI is an advantage
• Ability to create automated and articulated reports valued to the business by synthesizing complex data and translate it in key insights
• Is fast paced, proactive and energetic
• Can work effectively within a diverse, agile team environment and under pressure
• Has excellent analytical and communication skills
• Has a strong trading mindset, with an entrepreneurial flair to maximize business opportunities.
• Fluent in English and other language(s) is an advantage
• Functional skills in Retail/Merchandising/Buying in Own Retail and/or eCommerce environments

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree Marketing / Business/ Sales focus/ Economics
• 2-3 years merchandising experience – similar capacity
• Previous experience in merchandising and/or product marketing

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• This role is responsible for maximizing the profitability of own retail Factory outlets across Emerging market by driving key merchandising processes and implementation of key strategic initiatives across all countries of operation ensuring all in-season activity is focused upon delivering planned sales, margin and terminal stock objectives, as well as the effective execution of promotions.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the implementation of key strategic priorities in line with the business expectation & merchandising framework.
• Plan, manage, and monitor the seasonal FO/Planned production OTB & Buy to reflect planned sales and margins.
• Build and maintain monthly views of sales and stock intake including product gap overview.
• Work with store development team to ensure all new stores are built in a way to allocate optimum space to each product that we trade in our value stores.
• Work with VM & trade marketing team to standardize the instore communication tools for value stores across Emerging markets.
• Work with supply chain team to enhance supply efficiencies.
• Monitor financial targets for the channel including Net sales, Sell-through, Std. margin, Inventory, IDL & drive required actions to achieve the KPI’s.
• Ensure implementation of standard markdown / promotion processes across EM to support topline, bottom-line & inventory ageing targets.
• Develop key merchandising reports using power BI and drive key actions.
• Review weekly sales and stock and define gap plans in collaboration with markets to maximize sales and achieve business goals.
• Sharing of best practice from retail FO into franchise and within franchise across the markets.
• Action & lead relevant projects based on the business needs to achieve business goals.
• Role model the leadership framework and ONE EM mindset.

Key Relationships:

• Global Merchandising team.
• EM DTC Cluster teams.
• EM Retail Operations
• EM & cluster SCM
• EM Finance
• EM Demand planning
• EM Hub BU, CTC & DTC merchandising team.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong capability to build power BI reports is must.
• Strong financial acumen and familiarity with retail math and KPIs.
• Excellent direct & indirect influencing skills.
• Strong trading mindset, with an entrepreneurial flair to maximize business opportunities.
• Fluent in English.
• Ability to present complex topics in a simplified and clear way to any audience.
• Excellent attention to detail and analysis skills.
• Advanced MS office skills (Advanced Excel skills is a must).
• Understanding of retail management system and back office system.
• Structured, process oriented at the same time approachable and strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work within a diverse team, fast-paced environment and under pressure.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in business, ideally with marketing and sales focus or equivalent professional experience
• Merchandising Experience: 6 - 8 years
• ONE EM mindset.