Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Own Merchandising and Go-to-Market (GTM) process for assigned NCAA/Licensed/Team sport categories to support business requirements and sales goals.

Through a proactive and solution-oriented approach, execute strategies to deliver against GTM calendar milestones, Key KPIs (eg. Net Sales/Margin, Inventory, SKU productivity) and delivery/launch excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver Strategic Seasonal Merchandising plans based on Consumer and Marketplace needs while also meeting Key Business Metrics/KPIs (focusing on the sport categories assigned)
• Educate and Influence Creation/Business Unit partners to ensure product needs of our Consumer, Market, Channel are met
• Collaborate with key Commercial and Sales partners to determine account and channel needs, address opportunities and build plans to achieve business targets
• Drive GTM Excellence by collaborating with key functions to ensure products are delivered on time and in full (Demand Planning, Purchasing and Order Fulfillment)
• Own Business Tracking of assigned categories, including: bookings/sell-through analysis, forecast/inventory planning, launch recaps, seasonal hindsighting, etc.
• Drive Sell-In Needs for assigned categories, including: sample ordering, system management, building sales collateral, internal/external product presentations, etc.
• Connect with key stakeholders across Business Units, Sports Marketing and Brand Marketing to deliver consumer relevant authentic stories

Key Relationships:

• Sales Teams
• Category Teams, Business Units
• Comms/Sports Marketing, SCM, Demand Planning, Collateral
• Retail, Wholesale and eCommerce

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven ability to be Highly Collaborative and Influential across all functions and levels of the organization
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong competence in analyzing and manipulating data to make decisions and communicate objectives
• Excellent Systems Competence (examples below)
• Microsoft Office Suite - especially Excel and Powerpoint
• Adidas-specific Merchandising Systems/Tools
• Power BI
• Strong business acumen to support critical business needs (net sales, margin, range efficencies and inventory management)
• Ability to be Proactive and Solution Oriented
• Prior knowledge of the Team Sports/Licensed industry is preferred

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree with emphasis on the areas of merchandising, business, finance, or marketing or comparable professional experience.
• 3-5 years of merchandising, product marketing or planning experience

• adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. 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, 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 12 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.
• 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, Oregon.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.