Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: 

• To support profitable and sustainable market share growth for adidas in the Market by providing clear strategic direction and  insights through internal and external data synthesis, decision-support analysis and strategic planning processes. 

Key Responsibilities:   

Strategic Planning process: 

• Drive the global and local Strategic Business Planning (SBP) process (e.g., document development, local alignment, global submissions, communication packages), for the future 2-5 year period.  

• Support other regular and ad-hoc strategic planning activities (e.g., workshops, individual briefings). 

Data analysis and decision support: 

• Develop financial and quantitative models relevant to strategy planning (e.g., business simulation, revenue projection, market share development, financial statement analysis).  

• Synthesize data and prepare analysis to support senior management decision-making on priority topics (typically working cross-functionally). 

Strategic documents development: 

• Develop strategic presentations and business planning documents to Senior Leadership Team.  

• Drive the development of executive level presentations and reports. 

Ambition Planning Execution: 

• Govern the aKorea ambition planning and execution to drive long term success for adidas in Korea 

• Drive key deliverables for assigned priorities and enable success with right project structure and escalation for decision making 

External consultancy and research: 

• Manage external research activities, including agenda-setting, consultant selection and research planning.  

• Actively engage with selected consultancy/research projects, to ensure quality outcomes and applicability to the business and support to strategy development. 

Special projects: 

• Engage on regular and ad-hoc major cross-functional projects, esp. at strategic development stage (workshops, individual briefings). 

Key Relationships:  

• Senior Leadership Team of adidas Korea 

• Sales Directors (and Sales Management Team) 

• Brand Directors (and Marketing Management Team) 

• Asia Pacific Business Development – Strategic Planning team 

• Global Sales Strategy and Business Development team 

KPI: 

• Proper management of SBP process and deliverables 

• Quality of market and competitor data reporting 

• Quality of data analysis 

• Effectiveness and impact of external research projects 

• Overall business impact 

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:  

• Experience with a global apparel / consumer goods brand or retailer.  

• Experience in working closely with middle and senior leaders across functions 

• Strong analytical skills, problem solving skills and communication skills 

• Proven project management experience 

• Structure thinking process to provide direction in Ambiguity 

• Expert Power Point user, Expert Excel user 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:   

• Around 10 years of general business experience (ideally in more than one business function); equivalent experience in leading management consulting firm with strategic planning experience 

• University degree or above; MBA or other business-related qualification preferred 

• Open mind-set, curiosity, continuously challenging the status-quo  

• Passion for sport/sporting goods industry 

• Fluent in English and local language required