Adidas MANAGER ORDER FULFILLMENT RETAIL 

United States, California, Carlsbad 

965072544

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Order Fulfillment Management in conceptual planning to deliver against company strategy as well as drive effectiveness of wider team
• Drive execution of company strategy (especially in relation to retail)
• Influence others and gaining buy-in without direct authority
• Use of business knowledge to successfully deliver in complex environments, respond to operational challenges and ensure workflows are in place to enable effective execution of assigned goals
• Ownership for orderbook, allocation, DN creation, activities for retail
• Produce adhoc reports on order book, allocation and DN creation topics analyze data and drive actions
• Ownership for last mile delivery topics in weekly COTIF meetings with commercial stakeholders
• Participation in trading meeting, understand current commercial strategy. Operational support of stakeholders from order fulfilment side
• Agree and ensure retail adherence to cleanse/ overdue policy
• Upskill retail team on supply chain processes
• Ad-hoc orderbook analysis shipment plan on store/DC
• Initiation of system changes/ maintenance e.g. batch job timings ( execution by IT), transport lead times or DN creation settings.
• Management of non-delivery days (bank holidays/ stock takes), i.e. syncing with Merch on avoidance of CDDs on respective dates
• Sense check cross channel impact of changes
• Drive relevant projects and initiatives to be executed within specified timelines and within budget.
• Enhancement of existing reports on availability and delivery of retail order book and forecasted demand

Key Relationships:

• Retail Buying team
• DTC Demand Planning
• Supply Chain Management Europe (Product Supply, OBF, DC Ops etc.)
• IT

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation; can navigate easily within complex organizations, connect with a variety of functions, audiences, management styles, or cultures and create/foster relationships.
• Good understanding of the customer and consumer journey paired with the ability to turn ideas into action
• Good knowledge of SCM processes
• Able to accept and meet deadlines, involving effective time management capacity and sense of priorities and agility.
• Demonstrated initiative and result driven orientation
• Good analytical and process thinking
• Strong evidence of reporting and analytical skills across multiple reporting platforms
• Influencing skills
• Fluent in English (written and oral)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• College or university degree with a focus supply chain management, alternatively, equivalent combination of education and related work experience in the field of Logistics, Footwear and/or Apparel
• Minimum of 3 – 5 years of work experience, preferably in Supply Chain Management or Customer Service environment within the footwear and apparel industry.