Manager Planning & Insights, GTM Planning & Insights, Brand adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Manage the process for brand driven / cross functional projects to be completed successfully.
• Manage the business review process for sustainable brand growth in future, with providing historical quantitative data and quantitative insights.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Planning

• Manage the process for brand driven projects to be completed successfully with sharing data, assumption, and direction.
• Work with Japan Business Unit, Assortment Planning, Channels, Brand Activation, Supply Chain, Finance teams to drive seasonal strategies and priorities and drive operational excellence while validating.
• Manage selected projects or priorities.
• Track compliance of Japan range and business strategies.
• Build and leverage existing internal tools and reports to run analysis.

Strategic Insights development

• Manage business review process, Sell Out review by week, month, quarter, year with adding qualitative, quantitative insights for future planning.
• Create and share business Net Sales review by month, quarter, year with adding qualitative, quantitative insights for future planning.
• Create and report Forecast / Actual Order data for future planning with insights.
• Act as data expert for Brand adidas teams, provide regular reporting and analysis as well as contributing to ad-hoc analyses and projects.
• Provide insightful solution, which is proven by data analysis, toward brand driven / cross functional projects.

Key Relationships:

• Brand adidas
• Financial Planning &Analytics / Demand Planning
• Sales Channels (Wholesales, eCommerce, Retail)
• Creation Center Tokyo
• Supply Chain Management

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Accurate and efficient data mining skill
• IT system skill
• Advanced in English / Fluent in Japanese
• Communication / Negotiation
• Market / Financial knowledge
• Communication / Negotiation (internal / external)
• Ownership, “pick up the ball” mind set.
• Teamplay, deliver my responsibility to win together.

Requisite Education / Qualifications:

• University (Bachelor) degree in the field of Business ideally in Sales and/or Marketing or equivalent professional experience
• Approx. 3-5 years in sporting goods or related industry
• Advanced PC Skill (MS Access/ Excel / Word / PowerPoint / Power BI)