Recruitment Vacancies at adidas Group

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide clear guidance on Global retail marketing toolkits to enable flawless execution of all Campaigns/Activations across Own Retail, Franchise and Wholesale.
• Enable and support the briefing of agencies and follows up on the development, production, and installation of all campaigns across Emerging Markets.
• Support the creation and delivery of campaign go-to-market presentations, summarizing the campaign objectives (RID, allocations, products, visual merchandising, physical and digital marketing tools) to be shared proactively to all key internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the delivery of a full post campaign report, integrating business KPI’s and a Keep Start Stop analysis to ensure evolution
• Continuously inputs / challenges the campaigns, process, status quo to elevate consumer experience
• Support  the ideation of mall and instore consumer activations
• Manage and grow membership acquisitions at retail
• Support the management and reporting of retail Marketing Working Budget (MWB)
• Responsible for ad hoc projects or acts as a representative for the whole department

KPIs:

• Retail KPIs (Net Sales, Traffic, Conversion, ASP, UPT)
• Brand and commercial campaign activation and execution on time and in full
• Digital content creation and management for all digital touchpoints at retail
• Membership acquisitions growth at retail
• Seamless consumer experience between Own Retail & Franchise
• Marketing working budget (MWB) management in line with the plan 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• In-depth knowledge of the industry, market trends, and marketing/activation strategies
• Ability to speak, read and write English fluently.
• Solid business acumen and in-depth knowledge of Retail KPIs
• Highly creative and numerate with the ability to understand and analyze data and produce actionable insights and solutions
• Solid interpersonal, networking and negotiating skills
• Strong leadership, problem-solving and decision-making abilities
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to travel both domestic and internationally as needed
• Proficiency in MS Office applications Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint

Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in marketing and sales or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum 4 years of retail and/or retail marketing experience
• In-store retail experience is a plus

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ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include 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.
• Assists in the development of displays of merchandise or follows 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

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:  

• An absolute passion for retail & customer service
• Ability to use your initiative
• Clear and upbeat communication skills- people can hear your smile! 
• Flexibility- you can help during the week, during evenings, and on 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 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!

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Key Responsibilities: 

• Together with the SCM and Cluster leadership, develop the SCM road map for the EM South cluster, implement global supply chain strategy that supports and meets country strategy, performance objectives and customer/consumer expectations.
• Accountable for supply chain operations (Purchasing & Product Supply, Logistics & Transportation, Last Mile ecommerce delivery, Inventory, Fulfillment & Distribution Center/warehousing operations, Sourcing)
• Make the business more competitive by ensuring product and on shelf availability, speed, responsiveness, strong delivery performance and healthy inventory levels.
• Lead, coach, mentor a team of 13 supply chain experts.
• Data driven analyses & assessments of SCM performance, root cause process improvement initiatives.
• Manage the Distribution center/warehouse and 3PL partner in an effort to keep the performance at best level across all DC/warehousing KPIs while challenge status-quo to ensure that our 3PL partners embrace the efficiency mindset.
• Lead an ecommerce delivery strategy for the market.
• Lead sourcing for the market, create healthy relationships with local factories and product creation teams.
• Accountable to prepare, submit and manage country SCM L0 / L1 budgets and RFCs as well as COS items within the given guideline by VP SCM EM along with EM SCM financial controller. 
• Maintain routines to ensure delivery of core supply chain metrics in terms of product availability (OTA/OTIF), cost (SC cost absolute & as percentage of net sales), inventory/service and establish adequate monitoring & reporting routines for all SCM related KPIs.
• Build and maintains strong relationships with EMS Key stakeholders: Brand, Finance, Commercial functions & Key Accounts, line managers as well as the entire team to ensure alignment with cascaded directions and objectives set by VP SCM EM and a smooth cluster execution.
• Ensure demand and supply are broadly in balance, including purchasing processes, by maintaining strong S&OP routines with finance.
• Together with the VP SCM EM & the Performance Manager SCM, prepare project related Business Cases as required  and ensure timely execution in the approved budget.
• Develop and drive customer collaboration initiatives with local commercial functions.
• Ensure all regulatory and compliance measures are met within global guidelines and report to VP SCM EM as well as Local Compliance Officer for any irregularity.
• Lead related SCM process improvements and efficiency programs and proactively bring up ideas for profit ability enhancement.
• Ensure high employee engagement at every level through effective motivation, coaching, training, and development of personnel in the team.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Deep understanding of operational Supply Chain (DC/warehousing, transportation, fulfillment, purchasing, sourcing) processes as well as understanding of business requirements and necessary capabilities
• Data & Process driven, strong analytical skills
• Inspirational leader with ability to coach and mentor individual to achieve their full potential
• Strong, pro-active executer with confidence and speed, turns thought into action
• Good interpersonal and communicational skills to interact effectively and efficiently on different layers of the organization
• Strong and dedicated understanding towards the Group, customer’s/consumer’s needs with profitability mindset
• Proven project management/ownership experience
• High degree of self-motivation and self-management
• Strong leadership skills in combination with Team approach and exemplary behaviours  on the 3C’s (creativity, collaboration, confidence)
• Advanced MS office skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, SAP is nice to have

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: 

• University Degree with focus on engineering/operations/logistics/business administration
• Minimum 10 years experience in SCM, Logistics/Operations, team management
• Background with retail / FMCG, Sporting Goods industry ideal
• Fluent in English

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Key Responsibilities:

• Set campaign / activation specific objectives and KPIs for EM countries & clusters and follow up with cross-market tracking and reporting of results to BAD hub and Global.
• Drive the brand planning timelines OTIF in line with brand calendar priorities, serving as the lead ot bring all vertical brand plans together for best in class execution (CRM, Membership, DA, Omni, EIM, Newsroom, BU)
• Drive consistency and elevated standards across the EM country clusters, securing c/c plans are aligned with strategic objectives and in line with brand creative direction.
• Provide transparency of future trends & market opportunities through strategic & commercial inputs and on-going communication to Global BU Brand Communication
• Consolidate Comm. requirements from county/cluster and brief global BU Communication
• Monitoring quality and on time delivery of global toolkits
• Support line manager in driving the creation of PAN-EM Originals and BB campaigns e.g. Samba campaign
• Support line manager in planning category activation strategy and calendars, and handover at range introduction meeting
• Support line manager in developing a POV and guidance on media mix for category on key focus campaigns (based on ROI, category strategy and overall brand strategy)
• Receive feedbacks from country/cluster on local adaptation needs
• Coordinate and share with countries BA teams to collect best practices
• Support regular monthly network meetings with country/cluster
• Support the head of EM BAD and BU heads EM in the pre-season MWB planning
• Coordinate post-campaign evaluations and ROI calculations and input to marketing newsletter
• Provide country/cluster with activation guidance & templates in alignment with global

KPI’s:

• Brand heat
• NPS
• Category Sell-In & Sell-out
• Category Market Shares
• Category NS, Net Margin and Contribution across APAC
• Achievement of key SBP Initiatives

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to adapt & implement global brand/category strategy across EM
• Presentation/communication, negotiation and influencing skills, especially with senior stakeholders within a global matrix organization.
• Brand communication, newsroom and EIM knowledge
• Cross-functional and stakeholder management experience
• Industry knowledge, across divisions—footwear, apparel and accessories.
• Understanding of EM consumers, accounts, economic environment, and commercial needs
• Ability to excel in a matrix organisation

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience in marketing required. Regional experience preferred.
• University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing
• Sporting goods industry and/or agency experience required
• Fluent in English
• Business Acumen
• Strong Computer Skills including Outlook, Word, Excel (Pivot), Powerpoint, etc.