Adidas INVENTORY ANALYST MONTH CONTRACT 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

689980653

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

The Inventory Analyst’s role is to manage the DC’s inventory health, drive actions, and improve processes to protect and enhance DC productivity and cost.

This role requires close collaboration with multiple teams, including DC Operations, Omni Inventory, Demand Planning, DTC Excellence (eCom + Retail), and Data & Analytics.

Key Responsibilities

• Track inventory metrics and provide insights to stakeholders on the status of the inventory health, advocating for the DCs and the impact of inventory on DC productivity and business results.
• Draw attention to top no-movers, hash inventory, aged inventory, and DCs with increasing SKU count or increasing days of inventory nearing capacity, and drive initiatives to bring the inventory back to healthy levels.
• Collaborate with Omni Inventory team to incorporate data into their scheduled actions to sell and clear excess inventory from the network.
• Create, update, maintain, and publish accurate Power BI dashboards and other appropriate reporting to bring visibility on main inventory metrics to stakeholders and support effective decisions.
• Develop new inventory metrics as needed.
• Strive to continuously improve processes and system infrastructure to reduce costs and improve operations.
• Assist in defining and implementing the most effective inventory deployment strategy for all articles across North America to enable an optimal utilization of the DC network.
• Investigate, analyze, and ensure resolutions are reached in a timely manner on ad-hoc inventory topics.
• Support the project management team and IT team with data collection, analyses, recommendations, documentation, and testing for projects including but not limited to DC ramp-up, DC ramp-down, storage relief, and development of new processes.
• Drive initiatives to support product recalls and end of licenses that require scrapping and recycling inventory.
• Create documentation of your daily operations and processes and keep it up to date to provide transparency and enable decision-making.
• Help to onboard new team members, and seek support of your operations during absences.

Key Relationships

• SCM North America Teams: DC Operations, DTC Excellence, Orderbook Fulfilment, Data & Analytics, Inbound, Product Supply, Strategy & Projects
• North America - Finance, Omni Inventory Management
• North America - Demand Planning
• North America - Own Retail – Factory Outlet Business
• North America - eCom
• North America - Market Merchandisers
• North America - Marketing Operations
• North America - IT

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• English language proficiency both written and verbal required
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and information synthesis abilities
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Understanding of logistics cost and service drivers
• Operations as well as commercial mind set, end-to-end thinking
• Demonstrating initiative and acting result oriented
• Motivated team player willing to learn and work in international teams
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills, especially when interacting with different levels of business
• Strong knowledge and experience using Microsoft-based software, including Excel, Power BI, and PowerPoint
• Solid SAP skills
• Experience with Alteryx preferred
• Additional project management qualification preferred

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• College or university degree preferably with focus on Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or Sales, or equivalent experience may be substituted for degree
• 1+ years of related work experience in international and/or cross-functional teams

*We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote. The working location of this position is Portland, Oregon