Purpose of the Role:

This is a key in-house tactical position for an organized, passionate, and growth-oriented future leader who understands how to create value for our shareholders. This strategic role will be a key influencer in driving sustainable top-line development across all product categories and customers, maximizing profitability while managing a finite amount of investment resources and ensuring that we consistently embed the consumer in our decision making and processes.

What you will do:

• Steer Commercial and FP&A activities for the Wholesale channel, ensuring profitable results for the Zone (From turnover to gross margin)
• Drive the IBP Process by category for the Wholesale channel, ensuring alignment between Sales and GTM Teams.
• Develop and monitor KPI’s for product categories and customers in Wholesale, supporting both short and long-term planning and driving accountability across the business.
• Monitor performance, identify risks and opportunities, and drive corrective actions to ensure delivery of financial targets.
• Enhance performance transparency through robust analysis and cross-source insights.
• Serve as a strategic business partner to Sales and Marketing, enabling Marketplace growth through objective and holistic financial support.  
• Guide and influence business partners to make decisions that drive sustainable brand strength and profitability.
• Provide Senior Management with timely, accurate and insightful analysis of both Financial and non-financial KPIs including ad hoc reporting.
• Drive continuous process and operational improvements, promoting best practices while simplifying financial management processes and analytical tools.
• Focus on enabling adidas to become more consumer-obsessed through efficient and scalable processes, aligning financial plans & decisions with overall marketplace strategy
• Collaborate closely with Europe and South to drive growth in the Iberia Marketplace.
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional projects as required.
• Foster a high-performance and business-oriented culture within the FP&A Team.

Skills you will need:

• Demonstrated analytical and financial modeling skills, comfort with Finance and Accounting principles and strong financial statement analysis. (with focus on customer profitability)
• High degree of customer and consumer orientation, as well as business acumen.
• Independent handling of a variety of tasks with different levels of complexity by developing effective plans and organizing work efficiently.
• Acting in a goal and solution-oriented manner, be able to prioritize and complete tasks in order of importance.
• Ability to navigate in complex and fast changing international environment to influence and enable key business partners.
• Ability to motivate the colleagues and support shift toward growth mindset.

• Advanced degree or qualification in Business, Finance, Economics or Accounting (e.g. MBA or CPA)
• Familiarity with SAP AFS or S4, Power BI, Fiori App and other relevant adidas and industry Finance systems/analytical software a major plus.
• 7+ years of broad-based operational and strategic finance experience with progressive responsibility in industry leading companies (focus on Business and/or commercial finance)
• Language skills: English & Spanish spoken and written.

Life at adidas:

• Competitive compensation
• Annual bonus
• Private Life & health insurance
• Pension plan
• Hybrid working model
• Monthly meal vouchers
• Free access to learning platform
• Employee Assistance Program (personal counselling on variety of topics)
• Employee discount on adidas products.
• Work - life balance & encouraging towards wellbeing environment