PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:

• 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 mgmt 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 tackle 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 modelling knowledge
• Strong communication skills
• Fluent written and spoken English
• At least intermediate level in Japanese preferred
• Passion for sports