Adidas MANAGER FRANCHISE OPERATIONS EXCELLENCE EM 

France, Ile-de-France 

228753006

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is responsible for ensuringmono-branded stores provide best-in-class consumer experience and deliver against Net Sales and profitability targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the subject matter expert for EM Franchise teams on Store Operating models (House of Franchise) and Franchise Policies, facilitating knowledge/best practice sharing.
• Facilitate and drive EM Pilots / Initiatives enhancing digital consumer experience and Membership acquisition in Franchise stores, to provide a truly consistent monobrand consumer experience.
• Identify opportunities to drive the Franchise business performance and drive action plans in alignment with the Franchise teams.
• Leverage cross-functional collaboration to facilitate the development of the Franchise channel.
• Lead preparation and host Franchise functional meetings and sign offs.
• Support the Sr. Franchise Excellence Manager to deliver on large scale strategic projects.
• Act as the point of contact for Clusters around all Franchise Excellence topics.
• Support Cluster teams with expansion plans and key roll-out projects.
• Lead and drive the implementation of digital operations tools, to drive operational efficiency at store level.

Key Relationships:

• Cluster Franchise stakeholders.
• EM/Global DTC organization
• EM Finance, B&M, Sales Academy and IT

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
• Strong influential skills and understanding of the organization.
• Critical & strategic thinking to identify enhancement areas in line with the business strategy and commercial plans.
• Solution focused, able to lead development of implementation plans.
• Fluent in English
• Additional languages are an advantage.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in business, ideally with retail/sales focus or equivalent professional experience
• 2-3 years Retail operations experience
• Understanding of Retail operations, Finance
• Exposure to sports Retail / Franchise desired