Join adidas Europe and shape the future! For over 75 years, our European heritage has been a fusion of culture and innovation, driving global sports trends. Our offices, from Herzogenaurach to London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Athens, Milan, Manchester and Paris, are centers of creativity and collaboration. We aim to be Europe's best sports brand, seeking pioneers and visionaries to join our bold journey. At adidas, you're not just getting a job; you're invited to make a global impact, joining a team that values creativity, courage and innovation. Are you ready to be part of our journey?

Purpose of the Role:

As part of Sales Development, the Digital Wholesale Solutions & Sales Operations team is responsible both for implementing best-in-class and future oriented digital tools, as well as ensuring smooth and proper implementation of internal Sales processes & policies, to enable the Sales organization to achieve operational excellence and commercial success.

The holder of this position is a Digital Solutions ambassador (by utilizing digital tools, as well as inspiring and leading to the digital era through Digital Transformation implementations) and a safeguard of Sales processes & Company's policies and guidelines.

What you'll do:

• Be the Digital sales ambassador in the zone by promoting Digital tools within the sales community, keeping them always up-to-date while leading the zone’s Digital Transformation.
• Ensure a constant communication flow on status of the digital sales related projects and initiatives to main stakeholders, the Sales Leadership team and other sales and/or project-related functions.
• Manage the roll-outs of the Digital Wholesale Solutions [DWS] in the zone in collaboration with the Europe & Global roll-out teams, by driving the change management both internally (Sales/CS/GTM teams) & externally (Customers), designing the training & adoption plans and ensuring proper and timely communication to main stakeholders
• Be the zone SPOC to consolidate, document and prioritize the local user demands to Europe DWS team for required tools/process enhancements and new capabilities; Lead the User Acceptance Tests on new features (also by coordinating local stakeholders when required, ensuring end-to-end testing and providing key input to Europe and Global teams)
• Manage the resolution of the technical issues reported by customers and/or sales reps., by closely collaborating with Europe DWS team & Global IT operations
• Lead the Sell-In readiness process for the zone (as per EU's guidance) ensuring on-time systems & data setup, tools' readiness & content, defining sell-in calendar, cut-off dates & preparation plan, and coordinating communications in close collaboration with CS - GTM - IT - Supply Chain - Sales functions
• Drive Re-order & Clearance campaigns for each season based on the sales calendar and stock availability, while following the company's implementation policy; Ensure all systems readiness, on-time data's update, inventory and sales reports generation and act upon results to achieve annual targets.
• Secure Master Data excellence (portfolio classification, customer structure, customer doors, etc.) by overviewing the relevant processes & ensuring that databases and online tools are always and accurately up-to-date
• Co-ordinate the customer segmentation process and system's up-to-date status on that, as well as range segmentation by ensuring SAP is always accurately and on-time updated based on Go-to market teams' input.

• Drive special, ad hoc reporting and process related projects within the Sales Development team.

Skills you'll need:

• University degree in Business Administration, IT or relevant field
• Minimum 4 - 6 years of experience within a commercially driven organization, ideally with Sales Operations, Customer Service, Digital Transformation and/or e-Commerce function
• Commercially driven and customer-centric mindset, with good knowledge of sales and customer service processes
• Affinity to digital tools and technology, with a Digital-first mindset
• Experience in working on ERP / Newsletter / Cloud-based platforms and Digital Tools (experience on SAP and/or Salesforce is considered a plus]
• Strong communication (verbally & written) and presentation skills;
• Strong Microsoft Office skills

• Fluent in Engish
• Previous experience in team management is considered an advantage
• Exposure in Sporting Goods / Fashion / FMCG industries is a plus

Life at adidas:

• Competitive compensation
• Annual bonus
• Private life & health insurance
• Laptop
• Company mobile 
• Food Vouchers
• Hybrid working model
• Premium gym membership discount
• Free access to self-learning platform
• Employee Assistance Program (personal counselling on variety of topics)