Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As a Manager eCom Planning and Forecasting at adidas, you play a crucial role in shaping the company's digital market strategy through accurate planning and forecasting. You are responsible for developing, maintaining and running a cutting-edge planning and forecasting process ensuring high-quality data inputs and outputs. Your technical expertise and data-driven mindset enable you to provide actionable insights that drive business decisions and optimize performance.

Key Responsibilities: 

Scope: Accountable for developing, maintaining and running the eCom business planning and forecasting processes, ensuring data accuracy, and providing actionable insights to support adidas' digital market objectives.

1. Business Planning

• Manage and execute the end-to-end lifecycle of business planning and forecasting processes for the Europe eCommerce business.
• Participate in the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, providing realistic bottom-up forecasts to support the Finance team in creating official target submissions.
• Support the business with daily demand targets and month-end projections to enable better decision-making and optimize business plans.
• Develop and integrate automated models to reduce reliance on manual inputs.
• Maintain a deep understanding of business planning, target setting, budgeting, and campaign planning processes and data flows to effectively communicate and prioritize with stakeholders.

2. Consulting

• Develop strong relationships with business partners to understand their goals and objectives, outline analytic requirements, and provide solutions to business needs, ensuring high-quality inputs for forecast processes.
• Actively identify opportunities and determine actions to achieve business goals and objectives.
• Provide ad-hoc analyses and build business cases to facilitate insights into the business as needed.

3. Reporting

• Co-initiate and help implement new reporting structures within your area of responsibility.
• Ensure data accuracy and quality across all outputs provided.
• Continuously innovate reporting and tracking systems to enable stakeholders to monitor sales predictions, potential shortfalls, and future uplifts.

Key Relationships: 

• eCom Finance
• eCom Trading
• eCom Brand Activation
• eCom Operations (Order Fulfillment, Payments, Platform Operations)
• eCom SCM
• eCom Omnichannel Team
• Global Digital Analytics

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

1. Soft-Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of understanding and simplifying complex systems.
• Ability to think creatively and to drive structured & practical solutions within the wider group.
• Passion for delivering data-driven recommendations that lead to quantifiable improvements in business results and consumer satisfaction.
• Good communication skills, comfortable presenting complex topics to stakeholders at various organizational levels, both in person and remotely.
• Knowledge of financial and operational processes, and KPIs.
• Team player and action oriented with a can-do attitude.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks effectively.

2.      Hard-Skills

• Proficient in using ETL tools such as Alteryx, Knime, and SPSS Modeler for projects/workstreams automation.
• Extensive experience in business intelligence practices, including querying, enhancing, interpreting, and delivering moderate to large datasets (proficiency in SQL and coding skills preferred).
• Expert in MS Excel.
• Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Experience in Python is a plus.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: 

• University degree in the field of Business, Finance or equivalent 
• 4+ years of experience in analytics field
• Experience in eCommerce environment is a plus

Learn more about adidas Amsterdam, our benefits, and more: https://careers.adidas-group.com/locations/headquarters/amsterdam