Manager Finance Operations jobs at Adidas in Egypt, Alexandria

Responsibilities include:
Supporting the Store Manager in:

• Managing, motivating, and leading the team to achieve KPIs, sales targets, and an exceptional customer experience
• Monitor and analyze performance data and make any necessary adjustments to drive commercial success
• Effectively managing all retail operations within a fashion store environment

• Be a role model and lead your team for customer service and meeting or exceeding customers’ expectations
• Guide and train all team members within your assigned area on brand product knowledge and customer service
• Coordinate team members to consistently execute and maintain established Visual Merchandising and In-Store Communication standards
• Coordinate team members to ensure most efficient inventory processing procedures and a seamless stock-to-floor process
• Share best practices to drive the overall store team performanceRequirements:
To be successful in your application, you will have a solid retail sales background with a proven track record of success in a similar retail leadership or supervisory position, consistently leading a team to achieve budgeted sales. You will be motivated, energetic, passionate about achievement, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.Experience in the following will be highly regarded:
• Retail leadership experience in men’s/women’s apparel or sports footwearHow do I apply?
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Key Responsibilities:

• Manage all buying activities related to responsible category or brand and range selection during Sign off and Trade meetings every seasonfor own.com and emarket place
• Collaborates with retail and brand teams and group function partners to position keystories and product, in line with on-line business and company’s strategic vision
• Responsible for ranging product category breadth and assortment by eCom channel to deliver financial and range efficiency targets (i.e. Buying budget, Sell-thru, category shares, Inventory Days Lasting and Net margin targets)
• Review and analyze trading results overseeing daily sell-thru results, inventory status and business trend, in order to identify sales opportunities
• Handover range and forecasts at agreed timelines to ensure timely Placing Orders (Pre-Season)
• Management of phasing & giving timely signals to Demand planning to pursue replenishment/re-order of fast-moving articles (In-Season)
• Supports full-price & off-price decisioning to maximize sell-thru & inventory usage
• Manage sales events for assigned channel by supporting preparation to ensure smoothoperation of the events
• Communicate with Asia Pacific stakeholders (Range Architecture, Assortment Planning) for own.com and emarket assortment plan
• Range analysis and Asia Pacific report for Country Strategic Input, Supply Network Planning, range sign off and buy review
• Review and analysis trading resultsoverseeing daily digital sales and monitor consumerresponses by tracking digital KPIs such astraffic, orders, conversion rate, Average Order Value and returns
• Monitoring competitor’s ecommerce price status and market trend for respective categories

Key Relationships:

• Korea eCommerce team
• Korea Brand adidas
• Global Digital team
• Korea Finance Demand Planning team
• Korea Supply Chain Management team
• Korea 3rd party vendors

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
• Fluent in English and Korean
• Advanced knowledge of Korea eCommerce landscape
• Strong analytical skills
• Structured, organized and process orientated
• Attention to detail as error in analysis will have crucial impact to business
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment and under pressure

equisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in business, ideally with marketing and sales focus or equivalent professional experience
• Merchandising& Tradingexperience:Minimum 6years
• E-commerce experience is preferred.

Your task is to drive Consumer Service operational excellence in the contact center across all service channels with focus on efficiency, quality, commercial conversations & consumer experience. You support a global operating model by seeking out opportunities to best practice share.

Partnership/Vendor management

• Lead, manage and deliver Consumer Service targets on a regional level across brands, channels and markets within the boundaries of time, cost & quality, acting in a fast paced, agile development and environment of digitalization and personalization with highest executive attention in Brand and Sales
• Drive implementation of the definition of processes with the local vendor. Ensure that these definitions will allow to leverage or build proper solutions with internal and external cooperation partners.
• Be the operational lead, implementation partner and manage the relationship at a local level with 3rd party vendor (contact center provider, specialist providers). Act as the 1st escalation point for contact center.
• Be the main process counterpart for contact center concerning implementation of roll-outs or new functionalities in your region.
• Manage the alignment of contact center processes within your region, ensuring a consistent Consumer Service experience.
• Lead execution of the formalization and documentation of defined processes, providing transparency on current state and a solid foundation for evolution.
• Manage the Consumer Services budget for Europe, coordinating with Producement, Finance and the Consumer Service vendor to keep costs within budget.
• Leading operational changes to support efficiencies that allow a complex operating model to maintain within the Consumer Service budget.

Continuous Improvement

• Seek out opportunities to improve the consumer experience and drive the process Improvements to reach defined goals.
• Lead process reviews involving all relevant stakeholders to collect appropriate feedback, enrich a backlog of improvements and define the priorities that support KPi’s and improved consumer experiences.
• Drive accountability for achieving KPI’s and metrics. Seek opportunities to continuously improve, keeping both internal and external Consumer Service vendors accountable.

Day-to-day Operations

• Monitor, steer and improve service levels, quality standards, revenue levels and premium membership experiences for our consumers in close cooperation with the contact center.
• Lead monthly, quarterly and annual business reviews with the Consumer Service vendor and seek opportunities for efficiencies and improved consumer experiences

People Management

• Support the vendor in implementing the appropriate structure to be able to manage the respective organization effectively and drive success
• Continuously monitor and evaluate team workload and organizational efficiency of the vendor with the support of data and team feedback and challenge appropriate changes in order to meet business needs.
• Provide team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and DBC objectives.

Key Relationships:

• Analytics team
• Operational Excellence team
• Insights Analytics team
• Scalability & Growth team
• External vendors
• Extended Digital Consumer Operations team
• CS Product Team
• Procurement

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High level of leadership and people management skills are required
• Strong attitude on results driven and ability to generate and maintain a big picture view including dependencies in middle and large scale
• Strong ability in identify risks and define mitigation plans
• High level of ability in identify processes improvement and define and realize implementation plan
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing business processes and business partners
• Very good communication & negotiation skills, comfortable presenting complex topics to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely
• Effective stakeholder management, defining clear scope or work and maintaining a collaborative and positive working environment
• Ability to juggle complex and multiple topics at any one time is requiredHard-Skills
• Comfortable working with enterprise-level platforms and technologies. A plus if had previous experience working with Salesforce, JIRA or OmniHUB
• High level of usage of any reporting KPIs reporting platform
• Project management and project monitoring experience
• Knowledge of Agile working is a plus
• Knowledge of process optimization methodologies (LEAN, 6Sigma, etc…) is a plus
• Fluent English both verbally and written

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree with focus on Business Management, Communication or other related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 8+ years of experience in Contact vendor management in a Retail, Digital and/or eCommerce environment
• Expert knowledge in respective domain Consumer Service
• Experience in managing highly complex processes, involving multiple teams in different countries
• 2 years of experience in leading a team

raise the bar of the user experience.

The Business Continuity Planning (BCP) senior manager’s key responsibility is driving the execution of the BCP strategy. The responsibility includes developing, deploying, and maintaining business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) strategies & solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, and strategy selection. The role requires creating/validating BCP-DR procedures, alongside planning, and conducting regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies. Facilitate debriefing sessions, and update procedures and plans based on lessons learned. Be the champion for continuity efforts after a disruption event. Additional responsibilities include risk, controls, and compliance management, supporting BCP-DR audit and examination activities. Support development & maintenance of policies, standards & procedures that are aligned with the industry best practices (NIST, FFIEC BCP handbook).

Key Responsibilities:

• Setting a clear direction for BCP with the right balance between global-local needs and ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities with the participating teams
• Continuously assess the BCP community performance and develop necessary skills by coaching individual members.
• Lead the BIA, ensure that plans and strategies are appropriate, cohesive, and viable, and could be used to recover key functions within required time frames.
• Design, coordinate, and execute BCP-DR annual test exercises for critical business processes, and produce test reports including lessons learned. Coordinate follow-up on lessons as required.
• Develop recovery priorities, timelines, and strategies for the sequence of recovery components.
• Support review and maintenance of business continuity policy, standards, and processes.
• Support reporting and tracking of business continuity-related issues and remediation activities.
• Support the identification of Business Continuity related risks (internal/external), the assessment of their likelihood, as well as potential impacts and risk mitigation plans.
• Train BCP POC in the implementation of BC-DR processes, and standards and impart training to ensure recoverability of business processes and supporting services.
• Proactively identify and implement BCP program and process improvements.
• Provide ongoing SME guidance and assistance on business continuity matters.
• Guide management in self-assessing their control environment.
• Assist Crisis Management / Incident Management teams during service disruption events, and contribute to process improvement initiatives.

Key Relationships:

• Operations Center Leads
• Functional GBS Operations teams
• Global process owner
• GBS Delivery Excellence Global team

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with an overall experience of 15 years
• Hands-on experience in the area of process improvement, standardization, and Automation
• Comprehensive understanding of E2E processes in Global Business Services
• Ability to synthesize complex situations and develop solutions within a changing environment.
• Experience in providing clear guidance and instructions to operational teams and coaching
• Complete familiarity with Microsoft Office or equivalent tools
• Strong data analysis and RCA capability
• Virtual team management skill
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent experience, preferably in business administration
• Relevant Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk, or Audit certifications are preferred. (One or more certifications MBCP, CBCP, ABCP, CRISC, CISA)

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION

• Bring consumer and sport insights into your concepts
• Execute the category direction
• Work with all creation functions to deliver product concepts
• Create ranges within the category from both an image and commercial point of view

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Proactively manage range direction
• Propose a clear strategy for the range and how to move it on
• Show full understanding of the product creation process whilst managing all tasks within the given time frames, with special attention to speed to market
• Work within cross-functional team and with interlinked departments to enable an efficient product creation process with an optimum product outcome
• Actively analyse business, draw conclusions and propose action steps
• Strong knowledge of product information systems and the interlinking functions – clarity on respective timelines
• Good level of product expertise to create industry leading products
• Actively execute spot buying (e.g.buying existing fabrics or already developed/existing styles at supplier)
• Be considered as a range expert by markets and retailers
• Prepare and present your ranges and business related topics - with respective audience in mind - by using relevant structure and content
• Actively provide input for setting the CtC (Concept to Consumer) direction and implement it into relevant ranges in partnership with CtC counterparts
• Work independently on projects andfollow up on project development

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Maintain a strong relationship andensure constant dialogue/feedback with
  • business unit and across other BU´s
  • cross-functional team ( Design, Fashion Operations ,CtC, Materials, Costing, Planning)
  • markets and relevant key retailers

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Transport information clear and effectively – negotiate skillfully
• Cooperate well and effectively to maintain and develop trustful relationships
• Work independently as well as part of a team
• Plan and prioritize daily working time effectively with the ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Knowledge of respective product category
• Strong analytical skills, be solution driven and result oriented
• Ability to travel
• Actively interested in lifestyle and/or fashion
• Passion for sport

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• College degree, preferably in marketing/business /textile/fashion
• Minimum of 3-5 years Product Marketing experience with APP, FTW or ACC background
• Experience in trade, vertical retail business model or sales is helpful
• Fluent in English
• PC skills (MS Office programs, especially PowerPoint and Excel)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Manager, Store Planning will partner with theSr. Manager Store Planning

Key Responsibilities:

• Create financial plans at the door level that sync directly to the total financial targets.
• Identify and elevate risks and opportunities that may arise throughout the year at the store, district and region levels.
• Maintain regular communication with store teams (Senior Director of Stores, Regional Directors, District Managers, Store Managers in particular)
• Forecast sales trends using a blend of recent performance, historical data, and store input.
• Push stores to peak performance by challenging historical sales, exploring potential, and driving towards ambitions
• Partner with Visual Merchandising teams to ensure store capacities align with sales goals.
• Manage sales contests to include creation, validation, reporting and payout
• Provide input into the long term strategic ambition plan of each store
• Provide business insights regarding geographical differences and nuances in the business
• Provide input into the annual budgeting process, ensure fleet can appropriately support growth targets.
• Track and report on store productivity; understand the balance between store capacities, potential sales, and turn targets
• Deliver accurate and timely management reporting products (historical results, forecasts, budgets) on an ad-hoc, monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Build and leverage relationships with cross-functional teams (e.g. Store teams, Financial Planning, Merch Planning, Finance, Buying, Planning, Allocation) to obtain information necessary to achieve business objectives
• Create a supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development.
• Provide team members with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and objectives.

Key Relationships:

• Financial Planning and Analytics
• Merchandise Buying, Planning and Allocation
• Finance
• Store teams (Senior Director of Stores, Regional Directors, District Managers, Store Managers in particular)
• Visual Merchandising
• Retail Activation and Marketing
• Store Operations
• Retail Training
• Global Sales & Retail Operations teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills and organization
• Strong influencer and natural collaborator who thrives on teamplay
• Empathetic leader that is fair yet firm in driving towards common goals
• Ability to present information and respond to questions in stressful situations
• Ability to manipulate large amounts of data and create reporting tools from data
• Ability to successfully multi-task and problem-solve while managing multiple projects at the same time
• Ability to travel as needed, in some cases with limited or no notice
• Proven ability to lead and develop teams
• Proven financial acumen and inventory management
• ; advanced Excel skills

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in business, finance or a related field or equivalent professional experience
• 6 years relevant work experience
• Fluent in English

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION

We’ll never launch a product unless we consider it perfect. Our product development teams create every shirt, every shoe, and every piece of equipment for thousands of athletes and fashion lovers as if it was one of a kind. And it truly is, as they weave their passion into every single product. But translating designs, drawings and renderings into real products requires a lot of decision making.
As Manager Development Apparel, you will lead the end-to-end development process for assigned medium complexity products from concept brief to production readiness. You will work in strong partnership with pattern and material experts as well as product marketing, design, and suppliers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take accountability for the entire apparel development management process for assigned products, with an emphasis on product integrity, product engineering and timely completion of all tasks in accordance with the corporate operating calendar Apply sport-specific understanding to enhance product performance
• Manage fit approval and size specification process, lead fitting meeting and take decisions on workmanship and construction
• Provide technical solutions by analyzing designs for manufacturability, production and material properties which address desired function and market appeal
• Manage handover of design pack to T1 to ensure that all technical information provided to T1 is complete
• Act as technical expert and guide/consult design and product marketing on T1 manufacturing efficiency suggestions. Manage comments to T1
• Research innovation from market or suppliers regarding garment construction, pattern, fit, embellishment, and trims. Partner with Innovation, Sourcing, Tier-1 suppliers to implement into product creation
• Review, validate and approve T1 costing information to ensure products are engineered in accordance with cost targets throughout the entire creation process. Secure initial FOB cost quotes and follow-up price adjustments. Ensure final costs adhere to adidas costing standard
• Ensure that all fabrics, trims, colors, processes, and development samples are fully tested to ensure adherence to adidas’ quality and testing standards
• Manage quality and process escalations with senior manager as needed
• If required, review size sets for accuracy of measurements and merchantability of complete size range for fit
• Review and sign off sealing sample with complete AD including all related documents prior to buy ready dates
• Ensure full conformity to published policies to ensure a final legal AD for final product
• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of data by continuously updating the system
• Responsible for achieving specific KPIs (e.g., on-time buy ready, target FOB, margins, sustainability, and on-time SMS delivery, CR2 finalization) for assigned articles/product
• Live and foster a knowledge sharing culture, and mentor junior team members
• Support cross-functional projects as required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Advanced knowledge of material construction and related testing
• Advanced knowledge of wear and physical product testing
• Advanced knowledge of production garment construction and manufacturing
• Ability to fit a garment and comment to T1 on changes required
• Advanced knowledge of costing and ability to negotiate as required
• Effective communication and negotiation skills
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Strong IT skills (MS Office) and ability to work with Product Data Management Systems
• Domestic and International Travel as required

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree in clothing technology or manufacturing, or technical degree as apparel technician
• Alternatively, combination of relevant education, experience, and training
• Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in apparel product development