Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As a Senior Manager Decision Intelligence at adidas you are responsible for ensuring eCom EU is supported by  increased levels of decision intelligence and data science. As such you work closely with your functional analytics and business counterparts to align on clear requirements and related delivery as part of a roadmap and vision to establish best in class actionable decision making by our business partners in their field of responsibility. With your role you also help drive a culture in the pursuit of short, mid to long term growth opportunity identification & enablement.

We are looking to expand our team with future talent that has the same insatiable drive as us to pursue with our business partners new commercial opportunities across our eCom platforms and channels for our consumers that help to continuously grow EU eCom at adidas and related consumer satisfaction. You are an energetic and data driven bridge builder between our team and our business partners to identify and execute on new opportunities with fast paced and collaborative use case follow up, where needed with clearly executed project management.

Key Responsibilities:

Decision Intelligence

• Work with your analytical and business counterparts to establish a clear view on a best in class maturity roadmap for decision intelligence and data science in their field of operations.
• Align on related use cases to help advance the maturity roadmap by ensuring establishment of clear requirements and fitting solution directions
• Deliver use cases on time and in full when needed with help from proper project management
• Ensure correct implementation of use cases and track value impact to the business and for further optimizations

KPI Measures

• # Decision Intelligence & Science cases successfully implemented
• Value of implemented cases to eCOM EU growth

Key Relationships:

• eCom Sales Planning & Analytics teams
• eCom Business teams
• eCom Global counterparts
• eCom SMT

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

1. Soft-Skills

• Bias to action with strong accountability and drive for results
• Strategic thinking and ability to transform thoughts into effective problem statements and related workstream management.
• Be comfortable and feeling at home in a very dynamic Run-The-Business environment in which fast action and decisions are required
• Very strong collaboration and communication skills, comfortable presenting complex topics with regards to opportunities to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely. With the ability to influence and achieve results
• Fluent English both verbally and written.

2. Hard-Skills

• Advanced experience with analytics tools and disciplines such as Python, Spark, R, Alteryx etc
• Working experience of applying statistics to support company decision making
• State of the art Problem framing skills ensuring high quality requirements gathering and solution direction value statements

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in the field of Analytics, Data Science or equivalent.
• 6+ years of advanced analytics experience in eCom environment.
• 4+ years of experience in commercial environments and related decision intelligence development