Adidas SENIOR MANAGER CATEGORY DEMAND PLANNING 

Poland, Masovian Voivodeship, Warsaw 

206244042

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the omni channel demand planning process for the area of responsibility and drives bottom up planning.
  • Ensures adherence to local and global timelines
  • Leads the demand planning process for China with ensuring the timely and accurate output of demand plan to purchasing.
• Manages the upstream data and input required for the End to End demand planning process
  • Resolve issues related to the integration of information between systems (Both upstream and down-stream systems for DP).
  • Provide Demand review information at article level and aggregated level.
  • Participate demand review meetings with focus on forecast trending and comparison vs business targets, define actions items with business team.
• Drives high level of teamwork and interaction between key functional departments.
  • Drive the consensus of the unconstraint Demand between Categories and Channels
  • Facilitate the consensus with the BU and OMB teams
  • Drives to identify opportunities and risks and to facilitate Gap closing activities.
  • Provides senior management team and functional teams with relevant demand planning-related trends analysis, qualitative analysis and management reports to support business decisions.
• Owns the Demand Planning Signal submitted based on the unconstraint demand and the RMA forecast submitted by Marketing, per Channel.
• Finalize Demand Planning Signal prior to sending to Purchasing
  • Ensure demand forecast is regularly reviewed, aligned with respective channel heads
  • Supports management team and purchasing in operational analysis, as input into the Buy Plan Review.
  • Represents Demand Planning in the Buy Plan Review Meeting with Purchasing.
  • Measure and continuously improves the forecast accuracy or other KPI’s at market, brand, channel and article levels

Key Relationships:

• adidas and Omni Buy and BU teams
• Wholesale, Franchise, Retail, and Ecommerce teams
• Customer service teams
• Purchasing teams
• IBP teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent analytical and ability to see the “big picture” while still playing attention to the details.
• High degree of commercial and business acumen
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Ability to multi-task in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to challenge the status quo using analysis from data and proposing corrective actions, providing scenarios and options
• Proven methodological skills e.g. trend and forecasting.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills e.g. relationship management, facilitation, team collaboration, and communication skills.
• MS Office (Excel; PowerPoint), SAP APO skills a plus
• Fluent in written and spoken Mandarin and English.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent education
• Minimum of 5-7 years’ related work experience, preferably in Supply Chain Management/Finance
• Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience managing people
• Preferable experience in the sport or clothing industry