Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization
Drive the retail training strategy within a defined geographical area, acting as a key business partner to retail leadership. Your mission is to design, deliver, and manage comprehensive learning programs that elevate the skills, knowledge, and performance of retail employees at various levels. Collaborate with Retail Leadership and Store Managers to identify learning needs, align programs with business goals, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

The Regional Training Manager plays a pivotal role in empowering District Managers, Store Managers, and store employees to exceed business objectives. This role implements cutting-edge retail sales training strategies, facilitates both web-based and instructor-led training, coordinates impactful fleet-based training events, and ensures seamless execution and feedback within the retail fleet.

Key Responsibilities
•    Collaboration: Work closely with retail fleet leaders and training community to ensure training materials are relevant and aligned with store needs. Influence partnerships to prioritize sustainable training program implementation.
•    Strategy Implementation: Build business acumen and skills to create a sustainable infrastructure for ongoing fleet learning. Assist in all aspects of the Retail Training Go-To Market annual cycle.
•    Content Development: Customize North America retail training tools and processes, localizing programs and materials as needed.
•    Measurement: Link retail KPIs to results to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of training initiatives, constantly improving programs to meet business needs.
•    Feedback & Coaching: Provide feedback and coaching during store visits (virtual and in-person). Partner with fleet trainers and business partners to ensure proper execution of consultative practices.
•    Product Knowledge: Support brand and product knowledge initiatives, ensuring training tools are relevant. Plan program pipelines for timely and balanced implementation of learning programs.
•    Relationship Building: Maintain solid working relationships with Global Retail Operations, business units, and key stakeholders.
•    Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest trends in retail training and continuously seek ways to improve training programs.
•    Budget Management: Manage the training budget effectively to ensure cost-efficient training solutions as well as travel and expenses associated with training needs.

Key Relationships
•    Global Retail Training Community
•    Global Sales Academy
•    Global Operations
•    North America Fleet Leadership Team
•    Retail Back Office departments

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
•    Ability to create compelling, interactive learning programs
•    Strong training delivery and facilitation skills, both virtual and in-person
•    Ability to modify training programs for diverse audiences
•    Exceptional project management and process analysis skills
•    Effective communication and networking with various retail management levels
•    International mindset and proficiency in business English
•    Strong listening and questioning skills
•    Ability to collaborate with remotely located teams
•    Willingness to travel domestically or internationally
•    Experience in team-oriented roles requiring collaboration
•    Flexibility to work remotely, managing responsibilities from various locations

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications
•    Four-year degree in management or organizational development and training preferred, plus 3 years of relevant work experience. Alternatively, 5+ years of related work experience.
•    Proven track record in branded/multi-location retail organizations
•    Strong understanding of retail trends and adult learning needs
•    Results-oriented with a demonstrated ability to achieve aggressive goals
•    Experience in facilitation and instructional design preferred

Why adidas?

• 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.   

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

This position will be based out of the greater Chicago area. 

This position will follow a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in location and 2 days remote. 

This position will require up to 60% travel for the market it supports.