Adidas MANAGER SEASONAL E2E BRAND PLANNING 

United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Dubai 

928279759

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Manager Seasonal E2E Brand Planning acts as a business partner to the EM DP community, SCM and brand organization, providing fact-based data as guidance and to help drive decision-making. The role plays an active part in the E2E seasonal process, from ranging, buy and inventory.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the team in strategic planning as well as translating strategic business targets into seasonal and sub-category targets
• Ensure financial guidelines are respected, identify critical process improvement areas.
• Enable a fact-based decision-making process by creating transparency on key performance indicators with respect to business plans (Net Sales, volume, margin, range size, pricing, FOB, IDL, inventory year-end.)
• Support the team to create transparency and analysis for seasonal brand guidance meetings including presentation of these contents to Senior Management of BUs
• Support improvement of reporting and analytical tools regarding range efficiency, drop rounds, margin calculation, market overlap etc. This includes standard reporting, ad-hocanalysis etc.
• Support the senior managerE2E, to connect inventory, buy and seasonal range
• Support the creation of seasonal planning tool which continuously feeds the fiscal tool and build logic how to connect seasonal and fiscal on monthly basis

Key Relationships:

• DP clusters team
• EM Brand team
• Merchandising team
• Marketing Operations
• CTC team
• Finance
• DNA
• SCM
• Global IBP team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Comprehensive business understanding of processes and structure
• Challenger mindset towards Business Partners combined with customer orientation
• Ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers
• Very good communication skills for persuasion and convincing others
• Business fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Ability to work under pressure and in very dynamic environment
• Ability to think and act strategically
• Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
• Prior experience in margin planning is a plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business Administration/Finance/Controlling
• Comprehensive understanding of system landscape (IBP, SAP, Power BI, Microstrategy, M-3 & master data systems)
• 4+ years working experience in Finance department