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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation

Support the execution of in-season Allocation and Trading for the DTC Value Stores. Deliver initial allocations, ensuring quick and efficient reactions to fast changing market environment to manage the implementation of the allocation strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute allocations to assure that store needs are covered by following the channel Ranges provided by VC Buyer and Planner. Ensure optimal initial volumes to achieve store sales plans.
• Manage and execute replenishment and consolidations across VC stores.
• Manage inventory movement from DC to store as well as inter brand transfers.
• Attend BAAT meetings and feedback to team.
• Execute new store opening store plan.
• Manage and execute markdowns and price changes.
• Work closely with Field team to manage store queries as well sending comms to stores.
• Serve as a representative voice of trading and allocation in cross-functional workstreams to ensure teams are working collectively towards organisational objectives.
• Leverage relationships with cross-functional teams (e.g. DC, Operations) to obtain information necessary to achieve business objectives. 

Key Relationships

• Retail Operations.
• Local Retail Teams.
• Customer Service.
• Planning and Buying.
• Warehouse Contacts – Distributions and Solutions.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Specialist with technical skills related to in-season Allocation and Trading for a multichannel direct to consumer (own retail) global brand.
• Broad and deep knowledge of merchandising and retail supply and operations topics and broad knowledge of other functional areas involved in the Allocations and Trading process.
• Knowledge on Excel.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualification

• University degree in business, ideally with marketing and sales focus or equivalent professional experience.
• 2 - 3 years relevant work experience.

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Design and produce industry leading creative solutions for market campaigns (brand and commercial), digital content and assigned projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and produce elevated design solutions for assigned campaigns (brand and commercial) and digital content.
• Working and adapting design templates for all commercial channels including specific templates for wholesale partners.
• Create design solutions for variety of touchpoints internal, 2D, retail and digital
• Collaborate with brand communications team members to ensure holistic storytelling and holistic brand look and feel
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer and brand focus
• Present and communicate objective design solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders
• Execute the production stages of creative, ensuring creative excellence and technical precision throughout the project
• Maximise results within given timeframes
• Identify opportunities of improvement and change, and initiate own proposals/projects
• Work collaboratively with agency on ad hoc campaigns

Key Relationships:

• Global retail activations
• Global concept and visual merchandising
• Emerging Markets Omni-channel
• Emerging Markets Brand Planning
• Emerging Markets BU Directors
• Emerging Markets Brand Activation 
• Country cluster Omni-channel leads
• Country cluster Trade marketing (Own Retail, Franchise and Wholesale)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Expert knowledge Adobe Creative Suite – Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign and video editing
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
• Strong graphic design and verbal skills
• IT skills:  Excel, Word, PowerPoint: advanced /Outlook

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Undergraduate education and/or advanced experience in Graphic or Communication Design, or related Design specialty
• At least 5 years' experience in Sporting Goods/Fashion Industry or Design
• Experience and understanding of end to end Design process
• Passion for sports, culture, design

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The role will support and coordinate a variety of functional and reporting tasks within the internal control and protection team across various stakeholders. The role will be highly engaged in working with data, business processes, control inefficiencies and risk analysis. You will have an opportunity to work with highly qualified and experienced professionals and leaders within the team who have a passion for driving commercial value with risk adverse mindsets to support your learning and exposure to core fundamentals with respect to developing a career path in this department.

Key Responsibilities:

• The position is integral to contributing to the development of the functions strategic direction to support organisational growth and emerging risks and demands.
• The are various functional projects and task management elements required to be coordinated across the team.
• There will be a focus to maximise the workflow and streamlining of team tasks, report collation and for monitoring and presenting preparation when required.
• Coordination of assigned project work by line manager and secondary reporting line on functional initiatives to ensure team delivery on projects, tasks, planning, reporting and administrative updates are completed within agreed objectives and timelines due.
• Contributing to enhancement/optimization/automation of reporting/ visual dashboards (Power BI) under supervision of team members for support.
• Collaborating with the team to drive data consolidations for functional reporting requirements.
• Ensuring diligence over data accuracy for completeness and quality review of inputs collated.
• Contributing to risk analysis and sharing of insights on key outcomes, results requiring action by team / business partners. 
• Supporting ICS annual testing working paper preparation

Management & team support

• Support on functional team planning, reporting and assistance with adhoc internal team demands and tasks from business partners.
• Act as system support for ICS testing tool TeamMate+ between Global ICS and function
• Maintaining and coordinating risk assessment updates within the function
• Support on onboarding material creation of new joiners into function and JD maintenance, annual team planning,
• Functional business presentation preparation and review with team
• Maintenance of reporting’s and continuous updates and enhancement to functional SharePoint

Key Relationships:

Active engagement with a wide range of stakeholders to contribute to relations building across to support on business requests across emerging markets.

• Director Internal Control & Profit Protection EM
• EM Internal Controls Managers
• EM Profit Protection Specialists
• Senior IC & PP Manager EM – DTC
• Manager IC & PP Manager EM – eCom
• Global ICS & Global PP

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong communication skills and high degree of stakeholder orientation
• Experience in working under pressure to meet deadlines and conflicting priorities.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills are essential.
• Strong analytical skills and innovative thinker
• Ambitious team player thriving on challenges.
• Fluent in English
• TeamMate+, Power BI, SAP – Advantageous

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or other tertiary education – Finance, BI, Risk Management, Internal Audit, Internal Control, Data
• Functional: 3 years professional experience at similar roles - Basic understanding of internal auditing, internal controls, risk management, data analytics, project management, report consolidations.