Sr Specialist Ecom Merchandise PlanningPurpose & 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:
- Build, enhance, and create merchandise reports to support the Sr. Manager of Merchandising 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.
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.
- Understand 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.
- Product mix according to 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 SEA.
- Drive eCommerce capacity planning processes for all Emerging Market countries.
- Provide insights and influence integrated business planning.
- 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
- 1-3 years experience in merchandising or related functions (incl. buying, planning, distribution, budgeting)
- eCom experience a plus
- Functional awareness of Operations and Finance
- COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
- OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
- INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
- TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
- INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company s standards.
- RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.
