Manager Retail Excellence (6-month LTD)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This position is an 6 month Limited Time Duration contract

Direct to Consumer business will represent the majority of adidas revenues by 2025 and it is a yearly double-digit growth business. Beyond sales, the impact we can create on every consumer thanks to DTC and the Retail Back Office is massive and unique.

The Manager of NAM SCM Retail Excellence is responsible for coordinating and driving the DTC roadmap with focus on alignment with Sales and Markets on Key Initiatives, Performance improvement and Tactical alignment as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development, planning and execution of Supply Chain DTC initiatives
• Build on partnerships with stakeholders in NAM Supply Chain, Retail Operations, Allocations, Sales, IT to enable alignment on day-to-operations and facilitate consistency between expectations and capabilities through proactive communication
• Act as a trusted partner to DTC commercial teams by communicating performance, capabilities, new implementations and escalations
• Support assigned projects effectively with timely communication on project progress and results to Senior Management and stakeholders
• Contribute significantly to continuous improvement of Supply Chain DTC capabilities
• Monitor performance of Supply Chain DTC initiatives against targets - identify deviations and initiate necessary changes
• Drive or support system and process enhancements that help improve the DTC SCM related KPIs
• Identify and implement improvement opportunities
• Work closely with the NAM Supply Chain market teams and the global DTC teams to support implementation of solutions efficiently
• Connect with Retail planning for regular forecast updates. Identify process improvement to increase forecast accuracy working with Distribution Center (DC) planning on capacity plan to fulfil Retail forecast
• Provide input to decision making process to maximize sales of Retail while having in mind the overall cost for Supply Chain and Retail Operations
• Maintain toolkit and best practices

Key Relationships:

• NAM Market (functions within SCM and Commercial/DTC functions Global Sales (Retail)
• GOPS
• GSCM
• Finance NAM + SCM
• IT

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• High level of system knowledge (SAP, PowerBI, MS Office suite)
• Proven collaboration and people skills
• Good communication skills, especially when interacting with different levels of business
• Ability to mediate, convince and build consensus between cross-functional stakeholders with different objectives
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with different international cultures
• Business- and solution-oriented mindset
• Good knowledge about Omnichannel, fulfilment, and e-com and Retail
• Self-initiated and pro-active mind-set
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to think end-to-end and operate cross-functional and good understanding of external business drivers
• Team player
• Fluent in English both verbal and written

Requisite Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Supply Chain Management from a College or University. We welcome the equivalent combination of education and experience in lieu of a degree
• Minimum 3 years work experience in one or more Supply Chain Management, Business, or Finance functions in a global company, ideally in the sporting goods industry.
• CPIM, Lean Six Sigma Certification a plus
• University degree, PMP and lean sigma certification preferred, MBA is a plus

• We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote. The working location of this position is Portland, Oregon.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.