PURPOSE:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead pre-season buying and Open-to-Buy planning across North American digital channels, aligning commercial objectives with global strategies.
• Leverage consumer insights, business trends, and analytics to optimize assortments, product allocations, and buying decisions.
• Manage product launches and inventory strategies to ensure strong availability and seamless consumer experiences across digital platforms.
• Partner with planning, analytics, product launch, marketing, and business unit teams to forecast demand and maximize performance.
• Identify opportunities to evolve buying processes, enhance KPI tracking, and deliver best-in-class digital merchandising practices.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• Market BU team(s)
• Market Planning teams
• Market Demand Planner(s)
• Market DVM team
• Market Product Launch team
• Market Analytics team

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Experience in buying, merchandising, planning, or a related business function
• Strong understanding of buying strategies, assortment planning, and inventory management
• Ability to analyze data and translate insights into business actions and recommendations
• Experience working cross-functionally to influence decisions and deliver results
• Proficiency with buying systems and tools, including SAP

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE/MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3–5 years of experience in merchandising, buying, planning, or a related field
• Experience within retail, fashion, sporting goods, or consumer products preferred
• Digital commerce experience preferred
• Fluent in English

adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

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. 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 company 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. 

At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday. The working location of this position is Portland.