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Adidas SENIOR SPECIALIST GLOBAL KEY ACCOUNTS 
Greece, Attica, Athens 
171505665

02.09.2024

Key Responsibilities:

  • Building strategic partnerships both internally and externally with our Global Key Accounts (Footlocker and/or JD Sports)
  • Driving sales and margins to budget expectations.
  • Providing exceptional customer focus and management.
  • Drive effective sell in and sell out strategies through the Go To Market cycle.
  • Accurate sales forecasting on a monthly and annual basis.
  • Building and delivering on an operational business plan.
  • Ensuring alignment of brand & product initiatives to customer and consumer.
  • Drive the customer performance management process to ensure all touch points are in place to drive mutual and sustainable growth.

Key Tasks:

Functional

  • To represent the assigned account(s) internally as an ambassador towards all functions and vice versa and manage all interfaces.
  • To understand the assigned accounts and categories and document this by Account Fact Books.
  • To develop and propose the account strategies, formalize them by Strategic Account Plans and get sign off by the direct superior.
  • To sell inin and agree on sell out support and formalize this by Account Marketing Plans.
  • To monitor sell out and the order book continuously and ensure reliable and cost efficient supply for the account.
  • To support negotiation and enforcement of adidas Group trade terms.

Controlling

  • To measure progress on own KPIs.
  • To report to all superiors along MIS guidelines (KAM standard reports).
  • To monitor and report on customers and competitors activities and propose/initiate/take actions.
  • To provide realistic plans and forecasts on customer performance.
  • To ensure customer compliance with agreements.

KPIs:

  • Market shares within assigned Key Account(s) and categories.
  • Budget compliance.
  • DSO of assigned key account(s) or categories.

Key Relationships:

  • Global/Region – None.
  • Market – Account Marketing, Range Management, Customer Service.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

  • Industry - Ideally in apparel/fashion/shoes or FMCG.
  • Exposure - Sports, marketing, account marketing.
  • Functional - > 2 years sales as KAM or in the Field.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

  • University degree in business with marketing and sales focus.