Senior Manager Strategic Planning, Business Development

Job Description

Contribute to the execution of the adidas Japan organization’s operational and commercial strategies by managing key initiatives, projects and cross-functional projects; be an active team member in cross-functional teams. Support the mid-/long-term planning of the business. Contribute to the management of both business and organizational changes through all aspects of change management including internal communication.

Key Responsibilities

Business Growth

Drive and support the growth of business in line with the targets and objectives.

Business Support

Support Managing Director and senior management team in facilitating strategic priorities, monitoring and reporting business KPIs to key stakeholders, deep-diving on strategical key issues.

Strategic Planning process

Support & drive the local Strategic Business Planning (SBP) process (e.g., document development, local alignment, global submissions, communication packages), for the future 2-5 year period. Support other regular and ad-hoc strategic planning activities (e.g., MBR, quarterly strategy offsites, workshops, individual briefings).

Strategic documents development

• Develop strategic presentations and business planning documents to senior management team.
• Drive the development of executive/board level presentations and reports, including Japan/BU/functional strategy communication & updates and YTD cross-functional business updates.

Data analysis and decision support

Develop financial and quantitative models relevant to strategy planning (e.g., business simulation, revenue projection, market share development, financial statement analysis). Synthesize data and prepare analysis to support senior management decision-making on priority topics (typically working cross-functionally).

Key Relationships

• Sales Channels (Retail, WHS, ECOM)
• Brand adidas, Brand Reebok
• Finance
• IT, SCM, HR
• Global Business Development

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Previous experience within the international sporting goods and/or apparel and footwear industry.
• Demonstrated knowledge of business KPIs and ability to work with numbers.
• Ability to turn vision and plans into action.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to create effective, deep, and successful working relationships across all levels of the organization and multiple departments.
• Leadership capabilities of driving a team forward and tackling issues or hurdles.
• Understanding of change management processes.
• Good communication and written skills.
• Team player and can work independently with confidence in making decisions.
• Always open to new ideas and embrace change with creativity.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree in Business studies, Marketing, Communications or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing.
• Fluent in English.
• Expert Power Point user.
• Advanced Excel user.
• Intermediate statistics and modeling knowledge.
• Strong communication skills.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• At least intermediate level in Japanese preferred.
• Passion for sports.