Adidas ASSISTANT MANAGER CATEGORY MANAGEMENT ACCESSORIES 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

81275277

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist to drive & develop a 3–5-year category plan based on overall adidas BU process in collaboration with Global BU
• Assist financial expectations set out in the category integrated business planning across all channels
• Support todevelop category initiatives to meet key commercial goals
• Assistthe development of business mid-long term division plan in alignment with global vision
• Be the interface between Global Business Unit (BU) and market stakeholders
• Collaborate with relevant cross functional teams to develop and execute plans
• Own end to end (E2E) market strategy and execution from Integrated Business Planning, Commercial Input to in season trade and exit
• Own quality delivery toward each GTM milestones
• Own go to market planning excellence in compliance with targets for forecasting, pricing, profitability, range size, range flow, range adoption,Article Performance Review (APR)etc. includingsystem, catalogue and master data maintenance
• Define the category range by sales channels, by stores or trade zone where necessary, within guidelines or alignments
• Assist to materialize business opportunities throughout the communication with Global BU, Channels, Wholesale accounts and any relevant external research
• Own key franchise lifecycle and inventory level to ensure brand health
• Perform category insights and analytics including market/consumer/competitor insights and sales analysis and leverage for planning
• Own the input of local product and allocation demand to global
• Support input toCreation Center Tokyo (CCT) creation from brief to ensure product offers to achieve the category financial target, delivery and sell through and exit
• Assistcross category and functional specific initiatives
• Present range internally and externally with sufficient sample availability
• Participate to customer interaction in planning phase
• Developperformance,and winning culture with fast action through organization’s people values,motivate team / direct reports in alignment with the market organization
• Development culture
• Drive employee engagement, leading by example.

KPI’s:

• Category Net Sales (NS), Net Margin and Contribution
• Sell-outall channels
• Forecast & data accuracy, Drop rate
• Net Promote Score (NPS)
• Market share

Key Relationships:

• Global BU
• Creation center including local trading company
• Brand Activation, Culture marketing, Sport marketing
• Business development, GTM head office
• Demand planning, SCM, Finance
• Channels and External Wholesale partners

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to implement strategy
• Strong presentation/communication, negotiation and influencing skills, especially with senior stakeholders within a global matrix organization.
• Distinct track record of success and high-level range management knowledge
• Strong cross-functional and stakeholder management experience across commercial functions (e.g. marketing, sales, etc.) and support functions (finance preferred), as well as different organizational levels (Global, Market, etc.)
• Strong industry knowledge, across divisions—footwear, apparel and accessories.
• Expert understanding of markets’ consumers, accounts, economic environment and commercial needs
• Ability to Manage, Coach and Develop People
• Results Oriented Mindset
• Strong team player with high level of integrity & attention to detail
• Pro-active, collaborative and positive attitude even in changing environments
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to translate and articulate data results into clear business actions.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• years of experience in range management/product required.

• University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing, MBA preferred
• Sporting goods industry experience required
• Fluent inJapanese andIntermediate inEnglish
• Has substantial experience working with local customers and international stakeholders
• IntermediateBusiness Acumen
• Strong PC Skills including Outlook, Word, Excel (Pivot), Powerpoint, etc
• Passion for sports and belief that through sports we have the power to change lives