Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
As a Manager eCom Planning and Forecasting at adidas, you play a crucial role in shaping the company's digital market strategy through accurate planning and forecasting. You are responsible for developing, maintaining and running a cutting-edge planning and forecasting process ensuring high-quality data inputs and outputs. Your technical expertise and data-driven mindset enable you to provide actionable insights that drive business decisions and optimize performance.
Key Responsibilities:
Scope: Accountable for developing, maintaining and running the eCom business planning and forecasting processes, ensuring data accuracy, and providing actionable insights to support adidas' digital market objectives.
- Business Planning
- Manage and execute the end-to-end lifecycle of business planning and forecasting processes for the Europe eCommerce business.
- Participate in the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, providing realistic bottom-up forecasts to support the Finance team in creating official target submissions.
- Support the business with daily demand targets and month-end projections to enable better decision-making and optimize business plans.
- Develop and integrate automated models to reduce reliance on manual inputs.
- Maintain a deep understanding of business planning, target setting, budgeting, and campaign planning processes and data flows to effectively communicate and prioritize with stakeholders.
- Consulting
- Develop strong relationships with business partners to understand their goals and objectives, outline analytic requirements, and provide solutions to business needs, ensuring high-quality inputs for forecast processes.
- Actively identify opportunities and determine actions to achieve business goals and objectives.
- Provide ad-hoc analyses and build business cases to facilitate insights into the business as needed.
- Reporting
- Co-initiate and help implement new reporting structures within your area of responsibility.
- Ensure data accuracy and quality across all outputs provided.
- Continuously innovate reporting and tracking systems to enable stakeholders to monitor sales predictions, potential shortfalls, and future uplifts.
Key Relationships:
- eCom Finance
- eCom Trading
- eCom Brand Activation
- eCom Operations (Order Fulfillment, Payments, Platform Operations)
- eCom SCM
- eCom Omnichannel Team
- Global Digital Analytics
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Soft-Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of understanding and simplifying complex systems.
- Ability to think creatively and to drive structured & practical solutions within the wider group.
- Passion for delivering data-driven recommendations that lead to quantifiable improvements in business results and consumer satisfaction.
- Good communication skills, comfortable presenting complex topics to stakeholders at various organizational levels, both in person and remotely.
- Knowledge of financial and operational processes, and KPIs.
- Team player and action oriented with a can-do attitude.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks effectively.
2. Hard-Skills
- Proficient in using ETL tools such as Alteryx, Knime, and SPSS Modeler for projects/workstreams automation.
- Extensive experience in business intelligence practices, including querying, enhancing, interpreting, and delivering moderate to large datasets (proficiency in SQL and coding skills preferred).
- Expert in MS Excel.
- Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.
- Experience in Python is a plus.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree in the field of Business, Finance or equivalent
- 4+ years of experience in analytics field
- Experience in eCommerce environment is a plus
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