דרושים Ltd Months Analyst Wholesale Tactical Fulfillment ב-Adidas ב-China, Yangpu District

Planning

• Formulate business planning strategies to achieve sales targets & KPIs
• Project an accurate forecast of annual budget, monthly sales targets & quarterly OTB
• Evaluate the profitability as per Trade Terms offered to customers
• Provide market intelligence updates to facilitate decision making and strategy formulation
• Support Sales Director and Senior Manager to develop Key account plans in order to maximize sales opportunities
• Be the key driver in Sales team & integrator between all related functions to achieve the best result on sales plans
• Strengthen the linkages across all key stakeholders with effective alignment & communication to achieve sales targets
• Initiate & lead cross-functional sales projects to achieve company goals

Performance Measurement

• Capitalize on historical data & current market trends to perform comprehensive analysis
• Work close with Senior Manager to provide analytical insights to support Sales Director on decision making
• Evaluate the Wholesale & Franchise business performance through quality reports
• Present the sales performance in a professional way
• Identify gaps on sales achievement if any for prompt actions
• Propose solutions for performance improvements
• Monitor the inventory level of wholesale & franchise accounts to ensure a healthy level is maintained in the market
• Initiate stock movement plans to capture sales opportunities & achieve optimal margin
• Work closely with Sales team to ensure ongoing support of all sales functions according to the Global best practice standard
• Provide all administrative support across the functions of Wholesales team to ensure operation excellence

System & Process

Actively participate in process improvement initiatives focusing on streamlining the sales forecasting & collection of sales data

• Governance the sales data integrity

IT

• Outlook: Advanced
• Word: Advanced
• Excel: Advanced
• Powerpoint: Advanced

Key Relationships

• Key Interfaces (internal): Product / Buying / Brand Communication / Finance / SCM
• Key Interfaces (external): All accounts

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience in Business Planning
• University degree
• Excellent analytical skills
• Good command of English

As a, will be part of a team of 15 colleagues working within Omnichannel Activation and approximately 25 people working in the wider Brand Department. You will have the marketing activation responsibility of the Sportholding banners and XXL across the Nordic Market.You will be based at our Norwegian hub, located in central Oslo, and collaborate closely with our dedicated adidas team at our Solna office, where we have nearly 100 colleagues working across Sales, Marketing, and support functions, and connect with colleagues worldwide.You will report to the Senior Manager Wholesale Activation, based at our Nordic HQ in Solna, Sweden, who leads Intersport/XXL activation team.

You will travel to the Solna HQ for meetings approximately every two months and to Europe twice a year for 3 days to participate in seasonal strategic handovers. You may occasionally work flexible hours to support activations.

What you’ll do:

As a Wholesale Activation Manager at adidas, you will play a key role in strengthen adidas’s position with Nordic consumers through the development and execution of impactful marketing activations in the assigned accounts channels. Aligning with Nordic and European strategies, you will develop and implement tailored account marketing plans that enhance the adidas brand image and drive profitable market share growth. In this role, you will plan activation calendars, ensuring they are updated and effectively communicated to internal and external stakeholders. Collaborating closely with agencies and cross-functional teams, you will deliver high-quality activations that maximize visibility both online and in-store. With a focus on delivering exceptional results within budget, all initiatives will reflect adidas’ global brand values and commitment to excellence. By analysing marketing and commercial data, you’ll identify and act on opportunities to optimize campaigns and continuously improve performance. Additionally, you will support account sell-in processes by presenting seasonal brand strategies and priorities, aligning with account objectives to ensure mutual success. This position requires a strategic mindset, creativity, and the ability to foster strong partnerships that drive both brand and commercial success.

Skills you’ll need:

• University Degree or equivalent, ideally with marketing and sales focus
• +3 year professional experience in the marketing area or sales area.
• Fluent in English

• Fully Competent with IT packages (Excel and PowerPoint to an advanced level)
• Collaboration:Strong ability to build and maintain strong relationships, communicate effectively and influence decision-makers.

• Skilled in developing innovative solutions and activations based on customer and consumer insights.
• Business Acumen:Experienced in analyzing data to balance immediate business goals with long-term brand growth.
• Expertise:Strong background in campaign projects, with a solid understanding of performance marketing, social media, retail and e-commerce. Confident and persuasive in presenting ideas. Experience in budget management.

We offer a performance related bonus, 30 days holiday, flexible bank holidays (swap up to 3 bank holidays per year for other days of leave), hybrid work policy, private health insurance &, generous employee discount, public gym & pool facilities.

To ensure everyone feels welcome we endeavour to accommodate everyone at all stages of the application and interview process. Should you need it, please let your recruitment partner know and they will be more than happy to help.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing and optimising inventory levels to ensure smooth, efficient operations across the business. You’ll develop and enforce best practices in stock counts, audits, and reconciliation, while driving stock optimisation, clearance strategies, and volume/article projections. Partnering with internal and external stakeholders, you’ll ensure seamless execution of the Customer Order Book.

• Plan and coordinate weekly stock reconciliations between SAP and 3PL ERP systems, including interface monitoring and error resolution.

• Track current inventory levels and align booked stock at distribution centres against purchase orders.

• Monitor cycle count reports, investigate discrepancies, and ensure timely resolution.

• Manage regular stock adjustments and inventory movements to correct SAP category locations.

• Deliver stock snapshot analyses and discrepancy fixes.

• Support Finance during internal and external inventory audits.

• Monitor Reverse Logistics inventory, including returns from adidas stores, wholesale customers, and store-to-store transfers.

• 3PL providers (warehouses)

• DC Operations & Inbound

• Order Fulfilment

• Purchasing

• Ecommece Business Unit

• Customer Service

• Finance & Internal Controls

• IT & Legal

• Strong knowledge of Warehousing and Distribution operations.

• Expertise in goods flow from DC to customers/consumers and reverse logistics.

• Solid background in Inventory Management and analysis.

• Excellent planning and organisational skills with ability to meet tight deadlines.

• Analytical mindset with willingness to challenge the status quo.

• Strong communication skills, able to collaborate across functions.

• Degree in Economics, Engineering, or a related field.

• Post-graduate qualifications in Supply Chain Management and/or Project Management preferred.

• 5+ years’ experience in Inventory Control within Supply Chain and Retail Operations.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, ERP/SAP, and WMS.

• Skilled in communication, presentation, and problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish HR as a trusted business partner and ensure HR initiatives, programs, and policies are fully understood and implemented thoughtfully within the business.
• Partners closely with management in structuring and developing their respective teams to maximize performance and employee engagement; at times this includes direct management of global/local restructures, people impact and change/comms initiatives.
• Determine training needs of the organization and identify the most appropriate available tool to meet business needs. Coach Managers on talent and succession management and how to best motivate and challenge all members of their teams, (from high performers to under performers) to ensure employee performance, engagement and accountability.
• Address employee relations issues as both a management coach and employee advocate. Apply effective mediation and problem-resolution with a solid understanding of company policy and practice. Manages especially high-level or sensitive employee relations matters, such as terminations and investigations.
• Support talent identification and provide full cycle recruitment for assigned business area.
• Leads multi-disciplinary projects that utilize various parts of the HR organization including Global HR, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, and Talent to achieve the project’s objectives.
• Partner closely with assigned business partners to write and evaluate job descriptions. Confirm all positions have been appropriately evaluated using GSMS, are consistent with similar positions in other regions and across LOBs.
• Drive and execute the HR responsibilities related to our GBS OWM processes and ensure the accurate organizational setup and data integrity within our SAP systems
• Identifies potential areas for improvement in work flow processes. Develops solutions and creates and refines tools for Portland HR.
• Other duties as assigned by HR leadership

Key Relationships

• Global HR Functions Teams and other NAM HR team members
• Executive leadership within the NAM market and Global headquarters
• Employees and managers within assigned client group
• HR Services/GBS

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Ability to establish a strong rapport and professional credibility with individuals in order to influence at all levels of the organization including and not limited to executives in market and global teams. Strong ability to influence at the Senior Director+ grade level is essential to successful performance.
• Ability to objectively coach and deliver constructive and difficult feedback to employees and management on day-to-day topics as well as complex, difficult, and/or emotional issues.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information in a professional manner within the HR framework
• Must have the ability to learn and possess strong conflict resolution skills
• Must possess strong analytical skills to assess data, facts, and figures used to develop strategies designed to improve the business and see hidden problems.
• Ability to perform and deliver against the competencies within the Global HR Functional Success Profiles for the respective grade level
• Ability to work independently and prioritize work
• Ability to learn and understand database concepts (SAP)
• Advanced MS Office Skills
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and oral
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and effectively use decision making skills.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• Four-year college or university degree, preferably with emphasis in Human Resource Management or Psychology.
• Minimum 5 years related experience and/or training.
• Previous HR experience working in a larger, corporate structure, matrixed company environment.
• Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be substituted for degree.

Employees are eligible to earn ​an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.​ Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount ​.4388​ hours per day that increases with years of service,  ​twelve​ paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

continuous process improvements for Order Fulfillment topics and deliver on time availabilityby coordinating/matching supply and demand within the supply chain.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for Confirmation Process and allocation of sales orders in correct and agreed sequence and delivery note creation. Follow up all decisions and activities for this process. Weekly monitoring and reporting (mainly check of still open orders) to Management team including proposals and recommendations for the flow of goods

• “Process owner” for OB Overdue and OB Cleansing.
• Is responsible for monitoring that the pre-sale load from all channels is correctly reflected in the orderbook in terms of feasibility, using RID checks and RDD guidance.

• Point of contact for all questions from customer service

• Closely collaborate with inbound team member to understand processes – especially for backup of Inbound Planning

• Support and contribute with all cross functional multi-branded departments and all Markets Region in regards of all order book activities

• Analyze order book fill rate and collaborate across functional areas to achieve overall KPI / delivery targets. OTA | COTAi | COTA.

Please note:

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at adidas means championing individual uniqueness and cultivating a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best. We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.
• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage,adoption, with surrogate and fertility support,short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, eleven paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
• At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday.The working location of this position is Portland, OR.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage Leadership Cadences: Coordinate and manage account Top-to-Top cadence schedules and content, ensuring timely and effective meetings.

• Organize Business Decks: Prepare, organize, and maintain all template business presentation decks for internal and external use, using creative story-telling techniques.

• Compile and Track Action Items: Develop, maintain, and track progress against priority action items created with key customers in Smartsheet, ensuring follow-up and completion.

• Ensure Strategic One-Pager Progress: Oversee the development, maintenance, and progress of the department strategic one-pager, ensuring it aligns with commercial and supply chain business goals.

• Support Communication: Facilitate clear and effective communication between Sales Execution and Supply Chain Account Management.

• Track Milestones: Utilize Project Management tools such as Think-Cell to monitor and track progress on key initiatives and milestones, providing updates to leadership.

• Collaborate with Teams: Work closely with Sales Execution, SCM Account Management, SCM Business Enablement, and SCM Projects to ensure alignment and support for business objectives.

• Implement Process Improvements: Support the development and implementation of process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

• Provide Administrative Support: Assist with administrative tasks as needed to support the Wholesale Supply Chain Strategic Planning function.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Sales Operations

• Sales Execution

• Sales Planning

• Category Management

• SCM Account Management

• SCM Strategy and SCM Projects

• Demand Planning

• Order Management

• Product Supply

• Inbound Planning and Transportation

• Performance Management

• Commercial Finance

• Global and local SCM and IT

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Understanding of SCM principles, processes, and best practices.

• Familiarity with Project Management tools like Smartsheet and Think-Cell for tracking and managing projects.

• Knowledge of effective business communication practices.

• Understanding of strategic planning processes and alignment with business goals.

• Ability to organize and maintain business decks and action item lists efficiently.

• Strong skills in coordinating leadership cadences and ensuring timely and effective meetings.

• Proficiency in tracking progress on action items and milestones using project management tools.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to facilitate clear and effective communication.

• Strong ability in visual storytelling, specifically in PowerPoint.

• Ability to hold others accountable to deadlines.

• Ability to analyze data and track progress on strategic initiatives.

• Ability to work closely with various teams to ensure alignment and support for business objectives.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.

• Keen attention to detail in organizing business decks and tracking action items.

• Ability to adapt to changing requirements and support strategic planning functions.

• Ability to identify potential issues and develop effective solutions.

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• College or university degree with a focus supply chain management, Post-graduate level preferred; alternatively equivalent combination of education and related work experience in the field of Logistics, Footwear and/or Apparel
• Minimum of 1-3 years of work experience in Project Management or Business Consulting.