Job Openings at adidas Group

Job description

Area: Emerging Markets

Department: Finance

Direct Reporting Line: Audrey Anthony

GSMS Grade: P1

Number of Personnel Managed: N/A

Cost Center/Budget5804200

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation

Perform local finance function and provide support to the Senior Manager Local Finance and Controlling Team for monthly and additional quarterly analysis and reporting, while adhering to and ensuring effective internal controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for data integrity of the adidas EM South Trial Balance with particular focus on the Accounts Payable & General Ledger.
• Preparation and processing of monthly Finance journals
• Timely and accurate Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• AP Vendor Master Data Review and analysis.
• Assist the Senior Manager Local Finance with Monthly analysis of Non Trade Purchases (NTP) Procurement to identify trends which impacts negatively on profitability.
• Fixed Assets monthly Reviews and Reporting
• Preparation of Annual Financial Statements
• Manage Company Mobile Phone accounts
• Systems Champion
• Collating and managing SAP system issues and ensuring that they are addressed and resolved.
• Drive efficiencies and automation of existing processes.
• Ad hoc support
• Generating value-adding PowerPoint Presentations

Key Relationships

• Finance
• Sales
• HR
• Marketing
• External Suppliers
• Standard Chartered Bank

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Excellent attention to detail, operational and analytical skills
• Intermediate MS office skills (Strong Excel is a must)
• SAP experience preferable
• Structured, process-orientated and at the same time approachable with strong and confident interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work within a team environment and under pressure

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree (Bcom, Bcompt)
• 3 years’ experience in a finance or auditing environment
• KPI
• Composure

Functional and Technical Skills

• Integrity and Trust
• Interpersonal Skills
• Attention to detail
• Reliable
• Structured

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Job description

Area: Lead Country South Africa

Department: RBO

Direct Reporting Line: Manager Visual Merchandising

Indirect/secondary reporting Line: Senior Manager Store Development

GSMS Grade: P2

Number of Personnel Managed: 0

Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organisation

This role is responsible for maximizing the profitability of the stores by ensuring the Global Retail Centre of Excellence (CoE) visual merchandising strategy and road map is cascaded to all stores and implemented efficiently and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement the Global Retail Centre of Excellence (CoE) visual merchandising standards and guidelines in all adidas RSM /store concepts and formats within the Market.
• Ensure all RSM & stores comply with Global standards and guidelines and provide a leading shopping experience for all customers.
• Ensure high quality visual merchandising performance
• Identify and communicate Market needs and best practices to the SDM & Retail Director and the Global Retail CoE Visual Merchandising team.
• Implement a store visit plan ensuring that all doors & stores are visited regularly and additional focus is given to high profile stores & doors in the Market. All RSM/ stores must be visited a minimum of once per quarter.
• Take the lead on ensuring all Store Managers and in store visual merchandisers are trained on the Global Retail CoE Visual Merchandising standards and Guidelines.
• Keep up to date on competitor analysis as well as current and upcoming fashion trends across the Market. Work with the Global Retail CoE Visual Merchandising team to provide locally applicable tactical solutions to competitor actions.
• Ensure all expenditure is in line with the Market Visual Merchandising budget and notify the SDM of any risks or discrepancies.
• Ensure all windows are displayed in line with specified marketing calendar/campaigns and comply with window guidelines. Ensure these are presented to a high standard, including window stickers, graphics and mannequins.

Other duties as requested by your Manager.

Key Relationships

• Global: CoE Visual Merchandising
• Retail CoE
• Customers
• Market Team including:
• Brand , Sales & Retail Director
• Trade marketing managers
• Retail Marketing
• Retail Back Office (RBO) team (within both Lead and Multifunctional Markets)
• Operations/District Managers
• In-Store Visual Merchandisers

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Flair for visual merchandising
• Ability to lead ,manage & inspire a team remotely
• Fluency in English and local language of Market HQ
• Good numeracy, literacy, verbal and written communication skills
• Good IT skills (Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point)
• Geographic mobility

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• Secondary education or equivalent professional experience
• 3 years dedicated VMM experience
• Experience of working across multi stores essential (multi region preferred)

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Job description

Area: Emerging Markets

Department: Marketing

Direct Reporting Line: Senior Director Marketing - EM South

Dotted Reporting Line: Relationship with Director Brand Activation - EM

GSMS Grade: M3

Number of Personnel Managed -Direct: 6

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

Steer the execution of the Global and EM Brand Strategy, ensuring consistent deployment throughout EM South, delivering on all relevant Brand KPIs with focus on NPS.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and drive the execution of the EM South Omni-channel marketing activation calendar and drive local market initiatives where relevant
• Contribute to the planning of the EM Omni-channel Marketing activation calendar
• Discuss the MWB/SWB allocation across EM South with EM South Marketing Director and the BUs within Global and EM guidelines as part of the planning process.
• Ensure a cross department pre- and post ROI analysis of all MWB spending – max the return on all MWB investments!
• Magnify own retail and franchise by managing, coaching and steering the omni-channel marketing management team and close alignment with the BUs.
• Coordinate the effective implementation of EM Concept-to-Consumer and Sales Strategy & Excellence tools in activated sales channels across EM South, in line with the Omni-channel activation calendar.
• Distribute Global Wholesale Account Marketing tools to other Brand Activation functions within EM South
• Create, manage and execute tools to max. sell-out, such as Brand Coach Program
• Oversee and steer EM South Sports Marketing portfolio according to global direction, including budget allocation recommendations.
• Ensure a world class campaign execution by focusing on brand priorities, such as key city as well as key categories, open source and speed.
• Consult with Global Brand Management/ EM Brand Management on the creation of a Publishing strategy for EM South, including Newsrooms and execute the agreed strategy.
• Mange and drive Key City Attack Plans as well as Trade Zone Attack plans within EM South, ensuring consistent execution and delivery against Brand KPIs.
• Lead the Digital, Social and e-COM Manager to define the overall digital strategy of all categories in EM South, delivering innovative and leading executions according to the EM & Global guidelines and business objectives
• Drive focused PR activities in-line with Brand Priorities and as agreed on the EM South Omni-channel marketing activation calendar
• Lead CRM Manager and CRM efforts across the Market, including database growth and creation of a Market-relevant loyalty scheme in conjunction with EM and Global Brand Management.
• Brief Global Brand Management regarding any relevant consumer/Market research studies.
• Drive EM South Brand KPIs and monitor Brand Health via tracking studies.
• Provide input to EM Brand Management related to Market priorities where required to improve EM South Brand KPI performance.
• Provide a clear vision and direction to indirect teams with relevant objectives and KPIs.
• Establish a high performance culture and drive employee engagement, leading by example.
• Identify and develop high-potential talents (in and outside of the team), to fuel the team's succession plan.

Other duties as assigned by supervisor

• KPI’s
• Brand Health KPIS (Brand momentum, Net Promoter Score, Spontaneous purchase intent, etc.)
• Market Share
• Market Sales vs Plan
• Market Direct Brand Contribution vs Plan
• D2C traffic and conversion

Key Relationships

• Senior Director Marketing - EM South
• Director Brand Activation - EM
• Category Director/Sr. Category Managers - EM South
• Sr. Marketing Operations Manager - EM South
• EM/Global Brand Management team
• EM/Global Concepts-to-Consumer team
• External Agencies

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Significant knowledge of the full marketing mix (advertising, events, sponsorship, retail) with a major brand or retailer (sporting goods industry preferred)
• Leading and managing a diverse team (incl. remote management)
• Marketing budget Management
• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
• Experience in both market and above market organization preferred

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree in Business or a minimum of 8 years equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing
• Fluent in English