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Adidas SENIOR MANAGER STRATEGIC PLANNING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 
Australia, Victoria, Melbourne 
64151548

13.09.2024

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:

  • Contribute to the execution of the adidas Japan organization’s operational and commercial strategies by managing key initiatives, projects and cross-functional projects; be an active team member in cross-functional teams
  • Support the mid-/long-term planning of the business
  • Contribute to the management of both business and organizational changes through all aspects of change management including internal communication

Key Responsibilities:

Business Growth’

  • Drive and support the growth of business in line with the targets and objectives.

Business Support

  • Support Managing Director and senior management team in facilitating strategic priorities, monitoring and reporting business KPIs to key stakeholders, deep-diving on strategical key issues

Strategic Planning process

  • Support & drive the local Strategic Business Planning (SBP) process (e.g., document development, local alignment, global submissions, communication packages), for the future 2-5 year period
  • Support other regular and ad-hoc strategic planning activities (e.g., MBR, quarterly strategy offsites, workshops, individual briefings)

Strategic documents development

  • Develop strategic presentations and business planning documents to senior mgmt team
  • Drive the development of executive/board level presentations and reports, including Japan/ BU / functional strategy communication & updates and YTD cross-functional business updates

Data analysis and decision support

  • Develop financial and quantitative models relevant to strategy planning (e.g., business simulation, revenue projection, market share development, financial statement analysis)
  • Synthesize data and prepare analysis to support senior management decision-making on priority topics (typically working cross-functionally)

Key Relationships:

  • Sales Channels (Retail, WHS, ECOM)
  • Brand adidas, Brand Reebok
  • Finance
  • IT, SCM, HR
  • Global Business Development

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Previous experience within the international sporting goods and/or apparel and footwear industry
  • Demonstrated knowledge of business KPIs and ability to work with numbers
  • Ability to turn vision and plans into action
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to create effective, deep and successful working relationships across all levels of the organization and multiple departments
  • Leadership capabilities of driving a team forward and tackle issues or hurdles
  • Understanding of change management processes
  • Good communication and written skills
  • Team player and can work independently with confidence in making decisions
  • Always open to new ideas and embrace change with creativity

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

  • University degree in Business studies, Marketing, Communications or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing
  • Fluent in English
  • Expert Power Point user
  • Advanced Excel user
  • Intermediate statistics and modelling knowledge
  • Strong communication skills
  • Fluent written and spoken English
  • At least intermediate level in Japanese preferred
  • Passion for sports