Adidas MANAGER STORE PLANNING 

Egypt, Alexandria, Alexandria 

319655816

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Manager, Store Planning will partner with theSr. Manager Store Planning

Key Responsibilities:

• Create financial plans at the door level that sync directly to the total financial targets.
• Identify and elevate risks and opportunities that may arise throughout the year at the store, district and region levels.
• Maintain regular communication with store teams (Senior Director of Stores, Regional Directors, District Managers, Store Managers in particular)
• Forecast sales trends using a blend of recent performance, historical data, and store input.
• Push stores to peak performance by challenging historical sales, exploring potential, and driving towards ambitions
• Partner with Visual Merchandising teams to ensure store capacities align with sales goals.
• Manage sales contests to include creation, validation, reporting and payout
• Provide input into the long term strategic ambition plan of each store
• Provide business insights regarding geographical differences and nuances in the business
• Provide input into the annual budgeting process, ensure fleet can appropriately support growth targets.
• Track and report on store productivity; understand the balance between store capacities, potential sales, and turn targets
• Deliver accurate and timely management reporting products (historical results, forecasts, budgets) on an ad-hoc, monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Build and leverage relationships with cross-functional teams (e.g. Store teams, Financial Planning, Merch Planning, Finance, Buying, Planning, Allocation) to obtain information necessary to achieve business objectives
• Create a supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development.
• Provide team members with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and objectives.

Key Relationships:

• Financial Planning and Analytics
• Merchandise Buying, Planning and Allocation
• Finance
• Store teams (Senior Director of Stores, Regional Directors, District Managers, Store Managers in particular)
• Visual Merchandising
• Retail Activation and Marketing
• Store Operations
• Retail Training
• Global Sales & Retail Operations teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills and organization
• Strong influencer and natural collaborator who thrives on teamplay
• Empathetic leader that is fair yet firm in driving towards common goals
• Ability to present information and respond to questions in stressful situations
• Ability to manipulate large amounts of data and create reporting tools from data
• Ability to successfully multi-task and problem-solve while managing multiple projects at the same time
• Ability to travel as needed, in some cases with limited or no notice
• Proven ability to lead and develop teams
• Proven financial acumen and inventory management
• ; advanced Excel skills

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in business, finance or a related field or equivalent professional experience
• 6 years relevant work experience
• Fluent in English