About the role
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
This role is responsible for maximizing the sales, profitability, and brand equity through the management and execution of:
- Build, enhance, and create merchandise reports to support the Buying & Trading Manager on Intake, Sales & Product Information as well as own planning & allocation responsibilities.
- In-season article reporting and trading to ensure category and product performance meets expectations via a suite of KPIs and tools.
- Pre-season planning support to Buying & Trading Manager.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Support the execution of product and assortment strategy to achieve company eCommerce targets.
- Manage and monitor sales plans versus actuals to provide recommendations and insights on article-level performance for business decisions.
- Track, analyze, interpret, and provide recommendations based on key merchandising KPIs.
- Analyze routine sales and stock data, maintaining detailed and accurate reports.
- Own the in-season replenishment process for the channels.
- Allocate products to channels as planned in pre-season buying.
- Execute stock re-allocation and consolidation as required.
- Apply effective strategies to ensure optimal channel stock control.
- Facilitate and provide reports and information daily.
- Assist with seasonal product ranging.
- Work proactively to propose changes and identify opportunities to continually drive a best-in-class experience for the adidas consumer.
- D rive the Partner Program business, including dedicated buying, inventory management and optimization, performance monitoring, and business growth initiatives.
Key Relationships:
- eCom Team
- DTC Team
- Supply Chain and Logistics
- Marketing Activations T eam
- Consumer Experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Structured, organized and process orientated.
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment and under pressure
- Strong analytical skills
- Attention to detail
- Fluent in English
- Advanced user of MS Office suite of products – esp. Excel, Access, PPT
- Dashboarding/Data Visualization experience a plus
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree, ideally in business with sales focus or equivalent professional experience.
- 1-3 years’ experience in merchandising or related functions (incl. buying, planning, distribution, budgeting).
- eCommerce or retail experience a plus.
- Fluent in English
