דרושים Manager Gbs Delivery Excellence ב-Adidas ב-בריטניה

Flagship Senior Visual Merchandising Manager

As our
Senior Visual Merchandising Managerat adidas, you’ll manage one of the most globally important stores for our brand, based on the iconic Oxford Street, London.

You’ll need to be a proven people manager, inheriting a team of 4 direct reports, with a total team of 8. Stakeholder engagement is also a focus for you, managing relationships at all levels.

Things to consider before you apply:

• You may need to travel – so the ability / desire to do this is important

• Retail includes working nights and away on projects, we’d rather you know this & consider this at the very start of your process with us.

• We need a true people leader, who can inspire, motivate and set clear goals for our VM team, if you’re not passionate about people, this might not be the role for you

• There’ll also be support for planning / coordinating VM activities outside of the Flagship eg showroom resets, events, store openings or and store remodels.

What you’ll do:

• You’ll take ownership of managing an extremely high-performing team of Visual Merchandisers to deliver an amazing consumer journey through VM and Styling, all with the aim of bringing our Brand to life & converting consumers at the point of purchase.

• You’ll lead the Visual Merchandising team to deliver the business strategic plan and contribute to our commercial targets

• Execute the Visual Merchandising standards according to the VM calendar

• Collaborate with cross-functional departments to ensure we’re adopting the correct use, implementation & presentation of product packages, store fittings, in-store communication material, campaigns and VM tools.

• Influence and negotiate with all key business partners for all VM subjects, considering key product launches, ensuring consistency within best practice guidelines to provide a leading brand experience for all customers.

• Develop best practice, standards and operational plans to support the implementation of Visual Merchandising standards and guidelines.

• Leverage tools and programs for planning of existing or new stores or brand spaces (e.g. stocking and space planning tools).

As if working for a legendary sports brand wasn’t enough, you can expect the following:

• Strong pension scheme
• Performance related bonus (store bonus received per month)
• 28 days holiday
• Bupa health insurance
• Generous Employee discount
• Westfield Health cash plan

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure a timely collection of open receivables balance by working closely with the customer, internal stakeholders and solve any causes of non-payments.
• Ensure that all payments are received are allocated accurately and timely without any errors.
• Follow-up in case of discrepancies and ensure they are handled within a reasonable time frame.
• Be accountable and demonstrate ownership, being able to manage escalations towards management, proposing proactive feedback summary and recommended solutions in alignment with the department policy.
• Be able to back-up the Team Leader solving operational complex situations, and to guide, provide training and support to other team members by applying streamlined approaches.
• Lead short-term defined scope projects or support larger projects within finance operations also processing periodic reviews to identify, assess and take action to mitigate risks to project success.
• Manage customer relationship, which includes problem resolution and root cause analysis.
• Assess and review the credit risk on the customer on regular basis to mitigate risk for adidas according to credit policy.
• Perform review, analysis and proposal of release on credit block deliveries.
• Provide insight in the development of the accounts receivable position of the customer to the Credit & Collections leadership team and Sales / Finance stakeholders.
• Act as the point of contact for the process related issues and support on escalations.
• Track disputes, forward to the right department for their solution and follow-up until their closing.
• Identify the improvement opportunities and support their implementation.
• Provide insight into the calculation of the required provision for uncollectable balances.
• Support requests from internal and external stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain strong financial controls over the work performed.
• Ensure desktop procedures are updated in line with standards and policies.

Key Relationships

• Cash Application
• Customer Primary Data
• Account and Sales Operations
• Sales
• Market Finance

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong Finance Acumen
• Solid experience with SAP and Excel
• Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English and French in a business environment setting
• Ability to pay close attention to detail
• Solid interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation
• Ability to navigate easily within complex organizations, connect with a variety functions, audiences, management styles, or cultures
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Highly results driven and self-motivated team player with compassion, integrity, trust and perseverance
• Curious and growth mindset; keen to learn and approach subjects outside of comfort zone, look beyond the obvious

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree in Accounting, Business Administration or similar field
• 5 plus years relevant work experience in the accounting / corporate finance area
• Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function

Primary Responsibility

• Takes ownership of his /her store and allocates resources and organizes processes to drive profitability in a variety of situations and market conditions

• Has a working knowledge of the Profit and Loss Statement and the store KPI’s and makes commercial decisions based on sound financial judgment

• Tracks store performance data (e.g., best sellers, weekly forward demand and sales per square foot) and responds with solutions that drive commercial success

• Understands the behaviour and patterns of the store’s customer base, draws conclusions from this and makes relevant adaptations to the service offer

• Actively monitors customer satisfaction and feedback systems to drive continuous improvement

• Leads service by example and ensures highly visible and effective customer service management at all times

• Creates a culture where all store activity and assets are vehicles for showcasing and driving Brand equity

• Actively ensures Brand and product knowledge is transferred into sales skills in all relevant categories

• Manages an appealing, easy-to-shop environment for customers by ensuring visual merchandising and housekeeping standards are maintained consistently throughout the store

• Ensures store team compliance with all store policies and procedures

• Drives continuous improvement in stockroom processing and replenishment procedures

• Minimizes loss by ensuring all loss prevention procedures are followed

• Provides suggestions and ideas on ways to improve systems and processes

• Manages the recruitment, on-boarding, training and development of the store team and ensures all HR policies and procedures are adhered to

• Works with the Manager, Retail to identify strong performers with potential for growth along the Retail Field Career Ladder

• Creates a high-performance culture in his/her store by setting clear expectations and targets, analysing team performance, holding team members accountable and giving appropriate and prompt feedback, including actively managing poor performance

• Coaches, motivates and inspires team members to accomplish store goals and maximize their individual performance

• Actively collaborates and shares best practices to drive team performance

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

• Amenable to work with store location across Metro Manila (BGC, Makati, Quezon City, Pasay City)

Compliances

• To observe both global and local policies and procedures in all dealings.

• Support APAC changes and directions.

• Perform other tasks as may be assigned from time to time

Professional background/ Experience

• Functional: Minimum 18 months work experience in a sports/fashion customer- and commercial-focused retail environment with a minimum of 24 months of Store Management responsibility. Intermediate numeracy and literacy and advanced verbal communication skills

• Industry: Apparel/ fashion/ FW or FMCG Retail

• Exposure: Sports

• Education: Related College degree

• Technology: Basic in MS Office Applications; Word, Excel, Power Point; and Outlook

• Language Skills: Good command in oral and written English & Filipino

Manage daily administration of Guangzhou Sourcing branch.

• Work closely with other functional areas within teams at local and Hong Kong, ensuring all departments and functional areas work together to achieve adidas’ overall objectives.
• Ensure implementation of company policies and guidelines.
• Assist the Senior Manager Office Administration to ensure compliance with local laws and regulations including but not limited to labor, financial, health, corporate and individual taxation, health and safety to lead the office admin in accordance with the directions and policies of the company.
• Assist the Senior Manager Office Administration to manage departments and their staff in accordance with group direction and global policy and local Country Management.
• Be aware of external environments, China regulatory changes which impact the company (e.g., work permit, visa, temporary resident cards, etc.), alert senior management of potential business impacts and propose required solutions.
• Manage company day-to-day fleet management.
• Develop contingency plans for crisis management.
• Manage and develop direct report(s) to carry out the administration functions and processes.
• Manage projects and priorities as defined by Senior Manager Office Administration.
• Assume full responsibility for organizing meetings, summits, events/activities for the organization.

• Identify and negotiate terms for office supplies and service providers (hotels, travel, house and car rental, etc.), follow established procurement processes, etc. Conduct benchmarks and analysis to identify opportunities, propose options to ensure service providers stay competitive.
• Ensure office premises, equipment, and facilities are properly maintained at a high standard of efficiency.
• Ensure that office safety and fire prevention are always given priority.
• Implement Green office initiatives including but not limited to 6S.
• Support cross-divisional activities in the office.

• Cross divisions / Local management team
• Non-trade vendors, suppliers
• Legal and Procurement

• Great interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills
• Highly organized, ability to identify and manage multiple priorities
• Strong planning and organizing skills
• Advanced knowledge of standard software applications (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Fluency in English and Mandarin
• Pro-active approach; hardworking, independent, and able to work under pressure

• Diploma or degree from an educational entity focusing on business administration or related field
• Minimum 4 years working experience with exposure to office administration/legal/human resources with an international company
• Minimum 3 years’ experience managing people
• Sufficiently developed presentation skills

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the organization

The Manager Distribution Center (DC) Planning serves as the internal expert within the EU SCM organization for an end-to-end overview of the flow of goods, acting as a decisive supply chain planner. This role will maintain and continuously improve the planning process for European DCs, a control system to ensure overall transparency on the utilization of the DC’s capacities (Inbound, Storage and Outbound), in order to ensure SLA compliant deliveries and minimized costs, all on operational and tactical levels.

Key Responsibilities
•Lead DC Planning:
Coordinate the collection of data and information and generate the end-to-end capacity plan in the European DC Network (inbound, storage, outbound). Analyze and work closely with all stakeholders in the process to ensure common understanding.

•Drive Efficiency:
Identify bottlenecks, propose solutions, and ensure timely, cost-effective solutions for DC network constraints.

•Collaborate Cross-Functionally:
Act as a key liaison between DC Operations, Inbound, Deployment, Product Supply, and other stakeholders. Influence them to work towards a common goal. Be precise, errors have a substantial impact on the organization and the overall Supply Chain in Europe

•Present to Leadership:
Deliver insights and recommendations to senior management.

•Dedicated Cancellation process:
Own the dedicated cancellations to ensure availability. Alignment with affected parties (e.g. 3PL, Finance), create transparency on volumes and statuses and organize transfer of affected volumes to the DC network.

•Support Strategic Projects:
Lead short- and mid-term initiatives to enhance network utilization and resilience.

• Deliver Insights: Provide data-driven reports and analysis to support decision-making and continuous improvement.

Key Relationships
• Europe DC Business Intelligence
• Inbound
• Deployment
• Product Supply
• DC Operations
• Excess Inventory Management Europe

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Strategic thinking and developing innovative solutions within a complex/changing environment
• Deep understanding of supply chain mechanics and flow of goods
• Able to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing (English mandatory)
• Stakeholder management with conflicting goals/priorities
• Ability to prioritize, manage and complete activities within a deadline
• Excellent analytical skills and information synthesis abilities
• Strong competence and experience in MS Excel (Power Query and Power Pivot are a plus)
• SAP knowledge is desirable

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications
• College or university degree with a focus on Logistics, Supply Chain Management or equivalent education
• 5+ years of work experience in international and/or cross-functional teams, preferably in a Supply Chain Management function

Manager Sales TS HQ

Area: Market GCA

Department: Franchise & Wholesale

Direct Reporting Line: Senior Manager Sales TS HQ

Indirect/Secondary Reporting Line: NA

Subsidiary/Country: GCA

GSMS Grade:M4

: NA

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Project management and overall support in TS team

Key Responsibilities:

• POS related

• Participate POS allocation meeting and KSR meeting understand ground rules.
• Collect POS wish list from Acct Sales and consolidate and give out reports
• Discuss with internal Teams on POS Allocation according to aligned rules for result
• Follow up with the aligned result on POS allocation communicate back to A.M
• Deal with conflict case communicate with ASM and MM and come back for solution
• Monitor POS opening / upgrade status for progress and compliance.
• Assist to conduct cross functional communication and alignment

• Project related

• Key POS Development
• CRM Project and Retail Activation Project
• TS budget planning and business plan
• Overall business performance review
• Other Project

Key Relationships:

• Account Sales, RE, MM (Market place management) , BP, SO, CRM, PS ,

Retail planning

• Store allocation process management
• Store portfolio management (new/upgrade/closure tracking)
• Key store open process support and coordination
• Competitor retail expansion info collection

Business planning and tracking

• Assist senior sales director in business planning including annual SBP and monthly RFC
• Monitor business KPI on weekly/monthly/quarterly basis by different lens and raise the flag where comes the issue
• Based on company strategy or initiative, set up short term target/evaluation scheme/incentive plan, and track result on regular basis

Other tasks

• Assist presentation preparation (SMT business review, TM QBR, channel meeting etc.)
• Support other ad hoc business analysis
• Other tasks need HQ coordination

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong sense of logical thinking and strategic thinking
• Strong process and project management skills – organized approach but also able to be flexible to meet changing needs
• Solid business sense and analytic/critical-thinking skills – able to solve problems using both conventional judgment and ad-hoc analysis;
• Strong multi-tasking ability to handle multiple projects across various topics at the same time;
• Data analysis skills, planning skills

• Good ability in presentation

• Communication skills, relationship management, Negotiation skills
• Sales skills and customer service knowledge

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in Sales , Consultant or Project office
• Strong communication and influence skill
• Good analysis and Solid skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.
• University degree

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

Ensuring correct and daily execution of key responsibilities in the GBS Center according to the requirements of GBS policies, procedures and guidelines, and according to the Group Accounting Manual for specific area of responsibility (Accounts receivable/Retail

Self-directed worker for a specific service area

Supports organizational effectiveness through the identification and communication of process improvement opportunities

:

• Perform accounting tasks in AR Wholesale/Retail/eCom for larger markets, having to deal with specific cases of each market
• Check and review tasks handled by junior members, e.g. cash application, master data changes
• Perform sales vs. collection reconciliation for key customers, landlords and online stores
• Perform reports preparation and analysis, e.g. AR deduction report, eCom reconciliation report, Retail aging and collection analysis report
• Perform and review month end closing tasks
• Deal with ad hoc requests and coordinate with others
• Perform, coordinate and review audit tasks, reviewing the quality results within team
• Create and maintain desktop procedures, checking for inconsistencies and improvement opportunities (SME only)
• Handling of internal and external customer queries on complex cases
• Prepare training material and give training on specific cases for own area of responsibility (SME only)
• Group email and ticket allocation and handling
• Identify problems and bring to attention of Supervisor
• Deliver training to junior member and new member (e.g. sales vs. collection recon)
• Supportteam lead on project delivery, e.g. efficiency improvement, retail system upgrade
• Raise and implement smart work ideas

Key Relationships:

Colleagues connected via the process area in other parts of GBS

:

Good communication skills

Very good

Good accounting knowledge

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent education required
• Minimum of 2 years’ work experience in Accounting