Adidas SENIOR MANAGER ECOMMERCE PLANNING FORECASTING 

France, Grand Est 

699128982

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Business Planning

• Manage and own the end-to-end lifecycle of business planning and forecasting processes for the Europe eCommerce business.

• Participate in and lead part of the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, providing the Finance team with realistic bottom-up forecasts to help them create official target submissions.

• Support the business with daily demand targets and month-end projections to enable better decision-making and optimize business plans.

• Support on identifying opportunities and determine actions to close gaps and achieve business goals and objectives.

• Develop and integrate automated models to reduce reliance on manual inputs.

• Master a deep understanding of business planning, target setting, budgeting, and campaign planning processes and data flows to effectively communicate, assess, and prioritize with stakeholders.

Consulting

• Develop strong relationships with business partners to understand their goals and objectives, outline analytic requirements, and provide solutions to business needs, ensuring high-quality inputs for forecast processes.

• Actively identify opportunities and determine actions to achieve business goals and objectives.

• Provide ad-hoc analyses and build business cases to facilitate insights into the business as needed.

Reporting

• Co-initiate and help implement new reporting structures within your area of responsibility.

• Ensure data accuracy and quality across all outputs provided by your team.

• Continuously innovate reporting and tracking systems to enable stakeholders to monitor sales predictions, potential shortfalls, and future uplifts.

People Management

• Create a supportive work environment where employees are coached, trained, and provided with career development opportunities.

• Continuously monitor and evaluate team workload and organizational efficiency using data and team feedback, making appropriate changes to meet business needs.

• Provide team members with clear direction and targets aligned with business needs and market objectives.

Key Relationships:

• eCom Finance

• eCom Trading

• eCom Brand Activation

• eCom Operations (Order Fulfillment, Payments, Platform Operations)

• eCom SCM

• eCom Omnichannel Team

• Global Digital Analytics

Soft-Skills

• Passion for delivering data-driven recommendations that lead to quantifiable improvements in business results and consumer satisfaction.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex topics to stakeholders at various organizational levels, both in person and remotely.

• Strong analytical skills, capable of understanding and simplifying complex systems.

• Extensive knowledge of financial and operational processes, and KPIs.

• People management skills are a plus

Hard-Skills

• Extensive experience in business intelligence practices, including querying, enhancing, interpreting, and delivering moderate to large datasets (proficiency in SQL and coding skills preferred).

• Proficient in using ETL tools such as Alteryx, Knime, and SPSS Modeler.

• Advanced MS Excel skills.

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in the field of Business or equivalent

• 4+ years of experience in analytics field

• 7+ years of work experience

• Experience in eCommerce environment

• Experience in leading a team is a plus