Manager eCommerce Merchandise Planning - EM

at  Adidas

Manager eCommerce Merchandise Planning – EM
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is responsible for maximizing the sales, profitability, and brand equity of eCommerce through the management and execution of:

• Building, enhancing, and creating merchandise processes, reports and tools to support the Merchandise Planning team on Intake, Sales & Product Information as well as own country/cluster planning responsibilities.
• In-season article reporting and trading to ensure category and product performance meets expectations via a suite of KPIs and tools.
• Owning & developing the financial plan/guidance at a category & business segment level which includes being responsible for KPI’s such as Net Sales, Standard Margin, Markdowns, Terminal Inventory Management & Inventory Turn.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate & provide documentation and information for monthly inventory meeting for inventory flow planning.
• Provide insights & updates through reporting suite to eCommerce (eCom) Emerging Markets Team and the Local Country/Cluster buying teams to build, deliver & interpret regular (Daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/seasonal) category business & trading updates.
• Manage and monitor sales plans vs actuals to make recommendations and provide insights on article level performance to enact business decisions.
• Manage and work to improve the data requirements needed to build tools and reports to support the team and connect with analytics on request for advancement of merchandising processes and insights.
• Track, analyze, interpret and provide recommendations based on/for: market benchmarks and KPIs on productivity and sell thru, Improvement of Range Yield/Range Profitability, and other key merchandising KPIs.
• Forecast planning on business unit level, net sales, margin and ASP.
• Update category reports- To influence in-season & end of season markdown strategy.
• Build and manage merchandise plans with regards to product mix which includes Country, Season, Target customer, share of categories, gender mix, etc.
• Provide insight and suggestion for eCommerce channels in reconciliation with the Hub Merchandisers & Country/Cluster buying teams.
• Support the enhancement of all product planning systems and tools to suit world class buying practice across the Emerging Market territories.
• Drive eCommerce capacity planning processes for all Emerging Market countries.
• Provide insights and help the team provide actions insights while influencing the integrated business planning process.
• Work pro-actively, propose changes in processes to continually drive best in class experience for the adidas consumer.
• Other duties as requested by your manager.

Key Relationships:

• eCom Team
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Demand Planning/Finance Teams
• Marketing Activations/Campaign Operations
• Emerging Markets Analytics
• Consumer Experience Team

• Country eCom Buying Teams

  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
• Advanced knowledge of Retail Management Systems – SAP AFS, SAP PGR, DVM, Microstrategy
• Dashboarding/Data Visualization experience a plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree, ideally in business with sales and finance focus or equivalent professional experience
• 7-8 years’ experience in merchandising or related functions (incl. buying, planning, distribution, budgeting)
• eCom experience a plus
• Functional awareness of Operations and Finance

This role is responsible for maximizing the sales, profitability, and brand equity of eCommerce through the management and execution of:

• Building, enhancing, and creating merchandise processes, reports and tools to support the Merchandise Planning team on Intake, Sales & Product Information as well as own country/cluster planning responsibilities.
• In-season article reporting and trading to ensure category and product performance meets expectations via a suite of KPIs and tools.
• Owning & developing the financial plan/guidance at a category & business segment level which includes being responsible for KPI’s such as Net Sales, Standard Margin, Markdowns, Terminal Inventory Management & Inventory Turn

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate & provide documentation and information for monthly inventory meeting for inventory flow planning.
• Provide insights & updates through reporting suite to eCommerce (eCom) Emerging Markets Team and the Local Country/Cluster buying teams to build, deliver & interpret regular (Daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/seasonal) category business & trading updates.
• Manage and monitor sales plans vs actuals to make recommendations and provide insights on article level performance to enact business decisions.
• Manage and work to improve the data requirements needed to build tools and reports to support the team and connect with analytics on request for advancement of merchandising processes and insights.
• Track, analyze, interpret and provide recommendations based on/for: market benchmarks and KPIs on productivity and sell thru, Improvement of Range Yield/Range Profitability, and other key merchandising KPIs.
• Forecast planning on business unit level, net sales, margin and ASP.
• Update category reports- To influence in-season & end of season markdown strategy.
• Build and manage merchandise plans with regards to product mix which includes Country, Season, Target customer, share of categories, gender mix, etc.
• Provide insight and suggestion for eCommerce channels in reconciliation with the Hub Merchandisers & Country/Cluster buying teams.
• Support the enhancement of all product planning systems and tools to suit world class buying practice across the Emerging Market territories.
• Drive eCommerce capacity planning processes for all Emerging Market countries.
• Provide insights and help the team provide actions insights while influencing the integrated business planning process.
• Work pro-actively, propose changes in processes to continually drive best in class experience for the adidas consumer.
• Other duties as requested by your manager