Executive Assistant Temporary jobs at Adidas in United Kingdom

At adidas we have been challenging the status quo for over 70 years and we’re not done yet.

We could list tired, old bullet points about Store Associate tasks but we’re confident you already know that. Here’s a bit about the kind of Store Associates we are looking for:

Here’s what you need to know:

• Availability must be flexible and include evenings and weekends.
• Hours are part time and will vary based on business needs.

• You must have or be pursuing a high school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Three to six month’s experience working in a retail environment preferred.
• Basic numeracy, literacy, and verbal communication skills required.
• Must be 16 years of age or older.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and operate a Brannock device.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Why adidas?

• 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 Part-Time employees working between 20-29 hours per week a robust and progressive medical plan, including HSA (Health Savings Account) prescription drug coverage andfertility support. adidas offers Part-Time employees working less than 20 hours per week receive discounts for prescription drug coverage and vision services. Once eligibility criteria is met, employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan, Stock Purchase Plan with employer match and for education assistance.
• Employees are eligible to earn monthly and quarterly incentives.
• Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount 1 hour per every 30 hours worked. Part-time employees receive premium pay when working on one of the seven retail designated holidays.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Support: Support Locker Room program updates, rollouts, and initiatives as needed.

Key Relationships:

SEA and Country Sports Marketing

SEA and Country Supply Chain

SEA and Country Finance

Suppliers and Manufacturers

Brand Partners and Affiliates

Who are we looking for

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Proven experience in project management, including critical path tracking to ensure on-time, in-budget delivery.

Highly detail-oriented, organized, and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Education / Minimum Qualifications:

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word).

Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Contributes to meeting or exceeding store sales and KPI targets by:

• Building an emotional connection with customers and living the Brand Values

• Serving and selling to customers and conscientiously executing store operations

• Using his/her expertise and experience to provide feedback and support to selected team members

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Is aware of store targets and actively works to meet or exceed these by using all the resources available inside and outside of the store

• Identifies improvement opportunities and communicates suggestions to store management to drive commercial success

• Is a role model for customer service and boosts sales and Brand experience by using advanced sales techniques and appropriate elements of the adidas customer service model

• Shares his/her customer service experience and trains selected team members to fine-tune their service skills

• Uses advanced Category expertise and enthusiasm for the Brand to drive sales and customer loyalty in his/her Category

• Guides and trains selected members of the team on basic core and seasonal product knowledge

• Maintains an appealing, easy-to-shop environment for customers by consistently executing visual merchandising and housekeeping standards

• Complies with store policies and procedures to maintain a safe shopping and working environment

• Ensures the product offer in the store is made available to customers by assisting with deliveries and replenishing the sales floor

• Completes sales transactions quickly and accurately while adhering to cash protection procedures

• Minimizes loss by actively maintaining sales floor awareness while serving customers

• Collaborates productively and respectfully with team members to meet or exceed store goals

• Makes himself/herself available to support other team members when needed

• Communicates a desire to learn and seizes all available opportunities to drive his/her development and increase performance

• Not applicable

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• Customers

• Peers and Supervisor

KNOWLEDGE, CAPABILITIES AND EXPERIENCE:

• Fluent speaker of Polish and intermediate speaker of English

• Advanced Retail Professional Competencies

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 6 months’ work experience in a sports/fashion customer- and commercial-focused retail environment with advanced selling experience and solid product, retail and industry understanding • Basic numeracy and literacy and advanced verbal communication skills (additions based on market needs)

Business analysis

• Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organization.
• Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations.

Requirements definition and management

• Communication to local business users to gather local requirements and ensure seamless translation of local need to our global and market Tech
• Assists in the definition and management of requirements.
• Uses standard techniques to elicit, specify, and document requirements for simple subject areas with clearly defined boundaries.
• Assists in the creation of a requirements baseline and in investigating and applying authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

Application support

• Assists in the investigation and resolution of issues relating to Retail applications.
• Assists with specified maintenance procedures.

Key Relationships:

• Global Central Tech
• Internal Tech (Infra, Security)
• Respective business functions (Wholesale, Retail, Merchandising, Brand Marketing, Finance, Procurement, Legal)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Business or Proficient spoken and written command of English
• Proficient spoken and written command of Korean
• At least 3-year experience in IT
• At least 2 years of experience in Retail industry