Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is to support the development of the Partner Program (marketplace business model), a sales channel for our Digital Partner Commerce (DPC) business in Europe. 

The Assistant Manager Platform Trading will be instrumental in supporting the management of our live partner business, a portfolio of online wholesale key accounts, eCom pure players and marketplaces. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the digital development of the defined Partner Program account’s web shops across Europe, seeking to optimize our brand representation, consumer experience & ultimately growing net sales & market share.
• Executing the Partner Program platform proposition in Europe for respective accounts including ranging strategy, forecasting consolidation, reporting and active in-season management.
• Responsible for knowing the consumer, category, channel, competitors, and macroeconomic country situation for partner program key categories. This includes the European retail and eCom environment in distribution, share of buy, competitor ranges and pricing.

Day-to-day responsibilities include

• Drive regular analysis of demand performance to the relevant European teams as well as contribute to overall Partner Program strategic planning based on that analysis.
• Pro-actively manage all business KPIs linked to order fulfilment, marketing campaigns and inventory management, e.g. net sales, standard margin, availability, SoS, SoN, ROAS, etc.
• Support the account lead in driving the digital development of the defined Partner Program account’s web shops across Europe, analyzing performances and competitors behaviors hunting business opportunities to growth net sales and marketshares
• Drive the in-season management and day to day operations of define accounts.
• Support the definition of the account strategy for current and future Partner Program accounts under your responsibility in close alignment with Senior Platform trading manager, EU DPC and Wholesale team leads.
• Represent assigned account internally and externally towards all functions, ensuring aligned and effective collaboration across the end-to-end Platform Trading process.
• Support & manage collaboration with European Business Units, Local Marketing and Sales to create seasonal CTC plans that include Brand, Product and Activation programs
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on improving and innovating data flows and other data-driven process

Key Relationships:

• Partner Program Business Analytics, Platform Operations and Business Development teams
• Wholesale team
• WE eCommerce Merchandising, Business Operations, Financial Services, and Analytics teams
• WE Supply Chain Management team, IT, Finance and Legal teams
• Marketplace team and business/technical teams of partner accounts

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively
• Highly motivated and flexible, with the ability to work in deadline driven environment
• Able to participate and confidently provide quantitative and qualitative input for performance review
• Advanced Excel skills and proficiency in spreadsheet analysis, data visualization tools are a plus.
• Self-motivated and passionate about deriving business insight from data, improving business processes, and solving problems. 
• Quickly adaptable with ability to work in high-pace environment dedicated to rapid results
• Strong organizational and planning skills to handle multiple tasks
• Excellent PowerPoint skills coupled with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Solution-oriented with a focus on achieving results. Quick to learn new systems and tools
• Comfortable working in an international environment.
• Fluency in English is required

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• BA / BS in Business, Marketing, Finance, Economics or related field
• Minimum 1 to 2 years professional experience (demonstrated experience in merchandising (eCom & retail) account management, business analysis, business development or finance is a key requirement.
• Professional Experience in creating Power BI dashboard