Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As an Assistant Manager, Digital Visual Merchandising at adidas you will support the digital execution of specific seasonal campaigns & content for specific business units, consumer trends, and promotions. You will assist with digital merchandising activations for the largest commercial moments of the year. You will collaborate with major stakeholders and cross-functional workstreams to execute digital promotions and content across all digital consumer touch points.

Key Responsibilities:

Campaign Execution

• Execute digital visual merchandising strategy on key categories, including but not limited to promotions, consumer trends and cross-category campaigns.
• Enhance sell-through by continuously improving our configurable toolset, with a focus on onsite search, sorting rules, filters, product placement, product badging, evergreen content, page content, third party vendors, and site configuration.  
• Assist in the execution of specific global and local digital campaigns and projects.
• Work closely with Marketing Activation, CRM, Buying, Site Ops, SEO/SEM, and Site Experience teams to ensure wider cross-channel campaigns are translating into tangible, logical site experiences

Monitoring & Success Measurement

• Support quality of delivery for local activations to ensure that deliverables meet the brief and agreed scope.
• Contribute to the implementation of success KPIs to ensure that implementations are optimized based on results and insights.
   

Optimization

• Establish site playbooks and optimization flows for common and seasonal merchandise processes in your area, ensuring we can adapt to business needs and promotions.
• Ensure proper activations launch on time and in full across multiple markets and languages.

Communication

• Provide continuous transparency on status of implementations along the season to major key stakeholders.

Key Relationships:

• Buying & Planning
• Category Managers 
• Marketing Activation
• Digital Content & Content Operations
• Consumer Engagement / CRM
• Digital Analytics
• Cross Functional Workstreams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Soft-Skills

• Good communication skills, comfortable presenting to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely
• Affinity for consumer sportswear and lifestyle trends
• Familiarity with the consumer journey content delivery needs, solutions and processes
• Ability to handle ambiguity and untangle complex situations into actionable activations
• High resilience and solution-oriented attitude amid multiple campaign deadlines
   

Hard-Skills

• Strong IT and numerical skills – On-line platform knowledge. Data driven mindset.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across organization functions.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• BA / BS in Merchandising, Marketing, Business, Digital or relevant field
• 1+ years of experience working within an eCommerce environment
• Experience in product management, work with JIRA is a plus
• Experience in managing the implementation/running of campaign deliver

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at adidas means championing individual uniqueness and cultivating a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best.  We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities. 

• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 14 weeks of paid parental leave.  

• Employees are eligible to earn ​an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.​ Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount ​.4388​ hours per day that increases with years of service,  ​twelve​ paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.  

• 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, OR.   

• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.