Recruitment Partner Maternity Cover Sept 1st jobs at Adidas in Netherlands, Amsterdam

We’re looking for a Recruitment Partner to join our Talent Acquisition team in Amsterdam. This maternity cover role involves leading the full recruitment process, from sourcing and screening to interviews and offers, while working closely with HR and business leaders to attract top talent to adidas.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, ensuring a smooth and efficient experience for candidates and hiring managers
• Develop and execute tailored sourcing strategies, using internal and external channels
• Build and maintain a strong pipeline of qualified talent
• Support and advise hiring teams throughout the recruitment process
• Champion diversity and inclusion in hiring practices
• Promote adidas as an employer of choice through strong employer branding
• Ensure accurate documentation in recruitment systems and support global initiatives as needed

Who You’ll Work With

• Talent Acquisition team
• Hiring managers and senior business leaders
• HR Business Partners

What You’ll Bring

• At least 8 years of international recruiting experience, ideally in a global matrix organization
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Experience with offer negotiations and understanding of employment market trends
• Passion for delivering excellent candidate and stakeholder experiences
• Experience managing high recruitment volumes
• Fluent in English

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Be responsible for
  developing and scalinginnovative solutionsto improve adidas online business performance with account partners
• Build a mechanism to improve the business process for Japan WHS team to operate regular work effectively and efficiently
• Drive the implementation of innovative solutions, developed byGlobal Digital Wholesale
• Be the key point of contact in Japan WHS team and lead various projects to build an effective process while interacting with internal/external stakeholders across the globe
• Leading the digital agenda across the market organization together with Market and Cluster Digital stakeholders to increase digital knowledge and experience
• Communicate

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive digital transformation by researching various effective business tools to best-fit to team operations and adopting these to improve a process by removing manual tasks such as Excel work for all employees in Japan WHS, and work together with IT team to build enterprise system (e.g SAP)
• Implementation of a new analytics modelincluding Japan-specific ones, which is related to sell-in/sell-out, market trend, consumer journeyandsearch word trendleveraging various tools such asPower BIandGoogle Analytics)
• Be a point of contactfor Japan WHS team and globalDigital WHSteam and a diverse set of internal stakeholders in Japan to build a mechanism to adopt new digital toolssmoothly to Japanese business partners (e.g automationtool implementation todownloaddigital contents such asimages, size-chart, and consumer review from adidas)
• Give tools implementation guidance cross-functionallyand continue to monitor progress and results to remove potential roadblockswhile working with a line manager
• Assist the line manager in leading education and upskilling on relevant digital tools and initiatives across GlobalDigital Wholesaleorganization & account teams (Pure Players & Omni accounts)
• Update and feedback on tools and automation to appropriate stakeholders ensuring continuous improvement
• Input into new initiativesacross the organization - DBC & DA (e.g. Memberships, etc.)

Key Relationships:

• Business planning, Business Analytics and Platform Operations teams
• ECOM Buying, ECOM Operations, Financial Services, and Analytics teams
• Account lead, managers
• IT,Finance and Legal teams
• Global andDigital Wholesaleteams in each country cluster
• Brand communication and activation team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• roject management skills related to digital and/oreCommerce, ideally includingsystem Integration
• Basic to advanced Microsoft Office skills and Google Analytics
• Advanced Power BI and SQL skills, and proficiency in spreadsheet analysis. Self-motivated and passionate about deriving business insight from data, improving business processes, and solving problems.
• Excellent PowerPoint skills coupled with excellent communication and presentation skills
• High knowledge of digital tools to improve operational processes (e.g. familiarity with various AI tools)
• Deep understanding of online retail business (e.g. Sales,Website building, Web marketing, eCommerceSystems)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills (interest in technical and business eCommerce projects a must).
• Quick to learn new systems and tools and programming(e.g Python, RPA)
• Proven ability to drive alignment among multiple stakeholdersin an international environment
• Experience in breaking down complex, ambiguous challenges into structured solutions

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in project management in digital area and improvement of business processes through the implementation of new digital tools
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Online Sales/Marketing
• Business level English for writing and speaking *Fluency in English is required
• Minimum conversational Japanese is required
• MBA is preferred

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organizations:

In this role, you'll take the lead in the entire recruitment process—from sourcing and screening to interviewing and extending offers. You'll work closely with HR and business leaders to be able to identify, attract, and onboard top talent for adidas.

Key responsabilities:

• Lead the full recruitment process, including requisition approval, job advertising, candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer management, while continuously seeking process improvements with hiring teams.

• Utilize advertising resources, marketing strategies, and various sourcing channels (e.g., databases, universities, social media, job fairs) to attract qualified candidates and proactively engage passive candidates.

• Conduct thorough screenings and interviews to assess qualifications, skills, experience, and cultural fit, building and maintaining talent pools for future opportunities.

• Collaborate with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to ensure a cohesive hiring process, advocating for diverse and inclusive recruitment strategies.

• Maintain regular communication with candidates and hiring managers to ensure a positive experience and uphold high standards throughout the recruitment process.

• Partner with business leaders for strategic planning and conduct quarterly reviews to evaluate recruitment achievements and identify areas for improvement.

• Promote adidas as an Employer of Choice by effectively communicating the brand, benefits, and career opportunities, and support the implementation of global initiatives within your function or market.

• Lead the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy, and offer process and continuously work with the hiring teams to identify opportunities to improve the process.

• Leverage relevant advertising resources and apply other relevant candidate marketing strategies to create local, regional and global awareness (if needed) in order to attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.

• Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) in addition to other sourcing channels (university, competitive research, job fairs, social) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.

• Build, engage and maintain pre-qualified as well as prospective candidate pools of strong former candidates and new candidates within the functional area that your support.

• Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.

• Advocating for and driving a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy

• Own responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drives standards to ensure a quality performance against all standards.

• Effectively utilize comprehensive knowledge of adidas brand and adidas Group offerings, benefits, comp strategies, and programs to market adidas and the adidas Group as an Employer of Choice.

• Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with functional/market leadership and key business partners of all levels to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a strategy on effective recruitment activities for positions within your area of responsibility.

• Provide guidance to the hiring teams throughout the recruitment process and conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders and key business partners to provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.

• Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions, recommending improvements and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.

• Act as a key point of contact to support the implementation of global initiatives within your designated function or market.

Key Relationships:

• Broader TAEE team
• Senior Leaders from different business areas
• Hiring Managers
• HRBPs

Requisite Educations and Experience/ Minimum qualifications:

• Minimum of 4-6 years’ experience in international/global recruiting, leading local, international and global recruitment mandates for all level candidates through a broad range of sourcing channels (including proactive outreach).

• Degree in HR, Business or related studies

• Specific expertise/experience recruiting for Tech, Digital or Global Business Services is strongly preferred.

• Experienced working in large, international/global matrix company is a plus.

• Demonstrated track record of driving end2end, holistic recruitment mandates (including sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in volume roles) and global recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) to achieve hiring goals.

• Experienced in offer negotiation, awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends.

• International experience, having worked on projects in multiple geographies is a plus.

• Knowledgeable about managing diversity & inclusion from talent acquisition perspective.

Key critical competencies and capabilities:

• Strong results and delivery focus
• Candidate centric mindset
• Outside of the box thinking
• Good communication and Influence and Negotiation skills
• Project management skills
• Data & Insights
• Strategic thinking
• Drive in change and transformation
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• This person will be primarily responsible for driving the marketplace business with respective partners in Turkey and achieving the FY business targets .
• Responsible for managing / supporting new partner launches and piloting of new business models identified in the Partner Commerce landscape within Turkey

Responsibilities

• plan and drive the Marketplace (3P) business for respective the marketplace players in the Turkey such as Trendyol, Hepsiburada, Amazon, etc.
• Workwith partners to define strategies / action plans / development areas to achieve Ambition targets and drive necessary communication to strengthen account relationships
• Work with the partners to plan commercial calendar and implement campaigns (product markdowns, vouchers etc) during Sales / non-sales periods for each platform.
• Continuously monitor and track KPIs listed below (and more) and prepare reports for management team.
• Createdaily, monthly and yearly sales plans and forecast respective KPIs to track business performance on a regular basis
• Workjointly with DPC (Digital Partner Commerce) integration team to sustain daily operations runs smoothly in all aspects.
• SupportHub DPC teams for new partner launches , any integration related changes for contract management, integration quality, budget and marketing spend alignments, range selection etc. to ensure a flawless launch
• Workwith the platform teams and the internal marketing activation teams to plan marketing campaigns on the platforms for driving incremental sales
• Work and plan for the assortment and product quantity for all future seasons for the adidas 3P / marketplace model with Ecom merchandising team
• Improve operational KPIs , such as cancellation rates , returns , etc, for the 3P marketplace business in Turkey in coordination with partner and adidas Operations teams
• Drive best practice sharing across Emerging Markets and other accounts
• In partnership with DPC analytics, measure partner program impact towards annual growth targets (sales, margin, consumer experience etc.) based on global frameworks and prepare reporting for global functions
• Workingclosely with the Hub and Local DPC teams to ensure the Partner Program operation , expansion and execution ties in with the holistic [Market] DPC plan

KPIs:

• Contribution & profitability targets
• Partner Program Net Sales Targets (by brand, model & overall)
• Brand share on the platforms
• Return rate
• Order cancellation rate
• Stock and range availability
• Store point on platform
• Store follower number / consumer engagement

Qualifications

• University degree in the field of Business, Marketing or equivalent
• 6+ years of professional experience, 2+ years in E-Commerce
• Knowledge of the local E-Commerce and Marketplace landscape
• Sportswear industry experience is a plus
• Strong communication skills, ability to convince and motivate people on different seniority levels and communicate change
• Experience in working in cross-functional environments with a diverse stakeholder set
• Good project management skills, including the ability to lead several projects simultaneously
• Experience in Digital project management and agile execution methods is a plus
• Innovative mindset, encouraging change and taking personal ownership
• Understanding of collaborative business approaches in the online world
• Understanding of retailer's operational processes and metrics
• Understanding of retailer’s financial metrics (sales, inventory, margin, returns etc.)
• Proficient in MS Office
• Fluent English, both verbally and written

Key contacts

• Global Digital Partner Commerce (Partner Program)
• Digital Sales Solutions
• Market account teams
• Global & Market Supply Chain Management Teams
• Digital Brand Commerce Teams
• Local Merchandising & CTC teams
• Local Finance teams

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

The Manager Product Launch &

The ultimate objective is to ensure our partners showcase our products on time and in the most premium way possible, so consumer can find, see and buy their favorite products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor, influence and enhance product data and content end-to-end from adidas to our partners within the Partner Program European business. Provide clear reporting and solutions to issues encountered.
• Define priorities for product launch and digital visual merchandising initiatives according to the adidas business strategy.
• Explore and participate into the evolution of the managed partner’s business strategy in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, while identifying opportunities to increase the business.
• Day-to-day responsibilities include
• Align internally to get necessary data to launch our products (images, description, translations, etc.).
• Analyze and monitor content catalogue and product status to ensure timely and premium season launches.
• Act as a product owner, understanding technical product workflow to spot onboarding issues and coordinate with stakeholders to find timely and sustainable solutions.
• Drive multiple campaign executions across different retailers.
• Support new partners integrations in the testing phase, following adidas best practices.
• Drive best-in-class Digital Visual Merchandising strategies across various accounts.
• Drive key enhancements in ways of working with internal and external stakeholders to improve operational processes and increase efficiency, while being able to scale across more platforms simultaneously.
• Drive one key pillar of optimisation, acting as project owner, to reduce dependencies and bring extra value to the business.

Key Relationships:

• Partner Program Platform Growth, Business Analytics and Platform Trading teams.
• Europe eCommerce Product Launch & Data, Digital Visual Merchandising, Consumer Experience and Operations teams.
• Global & Market Digital Partner Commerce (DPC) teams
• Market & Local Wholesale sales teams & leadership
• Marketplace team and business/technical teams of partner accounts
• Tech partner (middleware provider/ integrator) teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Highly motivated and flexible, with the ability to work in deadline-driven environment.
• Strong organisational and planning skills to handle multiple tasks and business partners with conflicting priorities.
• Technically savvy and driven by automation.
• Advanced Excel skills and proficiency in spreadsheet analysis.
• Excellent understanding of technical systems (PIM, Middleware Providers/ Integrator, csv, xml product feed, etc.)
• Self-motivated and passionate about deriving business insight from data, improving business processes, and solving problems.
• Excellent PowerPoint skills coupled with strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with proven ability to navigate and be effective in matrix organisations.
• Pro-active approach to work & a go-getter mindset.
• Understanding of key digital KPIs (e.g. Onboarding and Size availability rate, sell through rate, Product Details Page views, Return Rate, Conversion Rate, etc.), their inter-connected nature and what levers to drive to improve performance across the whole buying journey.
• Comfortable working in an international environment

​​​​Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• BA / BS in Business, Marketing, Finance, Economics or related field
• Minimum 4 years professional experience in merchandising (eCom & retail), e-Commerce, account management, digital visual merchandising or category/product management is a key requirement.
• People Management experience is preferred.
• Experience in the sporting goods industry is preferred
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required; at least one other European language would be beneficial