Adidas MANAGER PARTNER DEVELOPMENT DIGITAL WHOLESALE 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

253173940

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