Assistant Manager Football Players and Scouting

At adidas, we believe that "Through Sport, we have the power to change lives”. To change lives, we have to create direct relationships with consumers, and the best way to accelerate this process is through Digital.

Assistant Manager Football Players and Scouting (Temporary 10 months)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Assist the team in managing a football players portfolio (scouting/professional) by detecting, identifying, and signing the young upcoming talents, future icons of adidas in the APLAN region (Latin American, American, Canadian, Asian, and players from Oceania).
• Assist in making sure that all adidas football players have maximum brand association and exposure to the industry (thus generating maximum ROI), by using all internal and external instruments. This role plays an instrumental part in the way the brand is portrayed within the global football market and ensures on a day-to-day basis that we continue to raise the awareness and image of adidas as the No. 1 Global football brand.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Player Management team by signing the key players fitting the adidas brand strategy;
• Attend national and international Youth events and use them as a platform for scouting (Identify, contact, network, and sign).
• Support in negotiations of players within the territory.
• Create a network in the world of football among Scouts, Coaches, Regional advisers, agents.

• Place forecast and orders at Athlete Service Platform;
• Liaise with Player Management and other internal colleagues to align footwear orders (Launch, Back to Club, National Team, major events) and to select off-pitch products and align orders
• Product seedings
• Credit card creation and loadings
• Manage storage and shipments
• Manage Store visits
• Produce Contract Approval Forms
• Invoice checking, send to Finance.

• Player profile / asset plans;
• Quarterly Reports;
• Global Bonus Program reviews
• Scouting & Player team meetings: logistics + presentations;
• Maintenance of Football Calendar & updates;
• Bootcount reports (COPA AMERICA, WC, UCL, UEL);
• Prepare various reports / presentations (boot launch report, social media reports, etc)
• Track social media of players.

Key Relationships:

• Internal : brand marketing, BU, CTC, Athlete Service
• Football Sports Marketing teams Global & Local, adidas partners, Global Player Managers (to Local Player Managers), Global Scouting Managers
• External : players, agents, clubs, football industry network

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong football knowledge combined with a business mindset.
• Understanding of issues faced by players (financial, media, relocation, languages) and ability to help adidas develop support programs.
• Highly motivated, focused, and well-organized with a deep empathy for the sport.
• Excellent planning, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills (both verbal and written).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and ideally Power BI.
• Commercial awareness and knowledge of the sporting goods business model.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality on all business matters.
• Driven to achieve goals and meet work expectations.
• Fluency in English and Spanish; Portuguese is preferred.
• Flexible schedule with substantial travel (15% to 20%) for meetings, club visits, and game attendance.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree, ideally with specific education in Sports Management.
• Professional experience in the sports or goods industry.
• Preferred background as a high-level football player and/or coach.