Senior Specialist Business Development EMC

at  Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Development and implementation of strategic business concepts for all adidas brand in the Market to drive organizational effectiveness and efficiency and to address all extraordinary challenges to the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Director BD and Senior Manager BD in aligning strategic priorities across management team and support global priorities.
• Address and solve cross-functional challenges and projects with high priority to Market
• Business Development / Models

o Markets: Project management with a focus on market clustering, market-entry strategy, business-set-up and financial modeling

o Channels & commercial business models: Project management for the set-up of new commercial models or new channels with a focus on establishing eCom in key markets within the set growth plan for the 3-5 years to come.

• Project and Process Management

o Coordination / Project Management for all major (new) Business Solutions

o Business project lead for cross-functional projects in EMC; this comprises process analysis and adaptation, resource planning, organizational preparation, implementation, and post-implementation support as well as strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders

• Innovation Support

o Support driving all projects related to innovations/new business solutions.
o Support driving all projects related to driving the necessary changes/ enhancements planned in our processes & GTM milestones.

Key Relationships:

• HQ & EM Business Development
• Market Functional teams
• Market country leads
• Market Channels & Brand Team
• Market Senior Leadership Team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong process understanding, analytical skills and project management experience.
• Strong communication skills (Written, verbal & story telling via power-point/excel) with all peers/counterparts he/she will have to influence and work with (BD, Market MDs & GMs Sales, Retail, Finance, Operation, RAPCC)
• Excellent research & insights generation capabilities required
• Strong edge in data analytics and interpreting/framing various resources input into concrete business recommendations.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 4-5 years of cross functional experience in strategy, commercial functions, project management, Sales and/or general management
• Bachelor in related field required
• Languages – English fluency is a mus

• Support Director BD and Senior Manager BD in aligning strategic priorities across management team and support global priorities.
• Address and solve cross-functional challenges and projects with high priority to Market
• Business Development / Model