Purpose of the Role:
This is a key in-house tactical position for an organized, passionate, and growth-oriented future leader who understands how to create value for our shareholders. This strategic role will be a key influencer in driving sustainable top-line development across all product categories and customers, maximizing profitability while managing a finite amount of investment resources and ensuring that we consistently embed the consumer in our decision making and processes.
What you will do:
- Steer Commercial and FP&A activities for the Wholesale channel, ensuring profitable results for the Zone (From turnover to gross margin)
- Drive the IBP Process by category for the Wholesale channel, ensuring alignment between Sales and GTM Teams.
- Develop and monitor KPI’s for product categories and customers in Wholesale, supporting both short and long-term planning and driving accountability across the business.
- Monitor performance, identify risks and opportunities, and drive corrective actions to ensure delivery of financial targets.
- Enhance performance transparency through robust analysis and cross-source insights.
- Serve as a strategic business partner to Sales and Marketing, enabling Marketplace growth through objective and holistic financial support.
- Guide and influence business partners to make decisions that drive sustainable brand strength and profitability.
- Provide Senior Management with timely, accurate and insightful analysis of both Financial and non-financial KPIs including ad hoc reporting.
- Drive continuous process and operational improvements, promoting best practices while simplifying financial management processes and analytical tools.
- Focus on enabling adidas to become more consumer-obsessed through efficient and scalable processes, aligning financial plans & decisions with overall marketplace strategy
- Collaborate closely with Europe and South to drive growth in the Iberia Marketplace.
- Lead or contribute to cross-functional projects as required.
- Foster a high-performance and business-oriented culture within the FP&A Team.
Skills you will need:
- Demonstrated analytical and financial modeling skills, comfort with Finance and Accounting principles and strong financial statement analysis. (with focus on customer profitability)
- High degree of customer and consumer orientation, as well as business acumen.
- Independent handling of a variety of tasks with different levels of complexity by developing effective plans and organizing work efficiently.
- Acting in a goal and solution-oriented manner, be able to prioritize and complete tasks in order of importance.
- Ability to navigate in complex and fast changing international environment to influence and enable key business partners.
- Ability to motivate the colleagues and support shift toward growth mindset.
- Advanced degree or qualification in Business, Finance, Economics or Accounting (e.g. MBA or CPA)
- Familiarity with SAP AFS or S4, Power BI, Fiori App and other relevant adidas and industry Finance systems/analytical software a major plus.
- 7+ years of broad-based operational and strategic finance experience with progressive responsibility in industry leading companies (focus on Business and/or commercial finance)
- Language skills: English & Spanish spoken and written.
Life at adidas:
- Competitive compensation
- Annual bonus
- Private Life & health insurance
- Pension plan
- Hybrid working model
- Monthly meal vouchers
- Free access to learning platform
- Employee Assistance Program (personal counselling on variety of topics)
- Employee discount on adidas products.
- Work - life balance & encouraging towards wellbeing environment
adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an equal opportunity employer.