Assistant Manager, Data & Analytics, Finance

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role supports the Manager Data & Analytics in implementing tools and strategies to translate data into valuable business insights across specific areas within the South Korea organization (being omnichannel sell-through, retail, franchise/wholesale, demand planning and inventory…).

Key Responsibilities: 

Data & Analytics

• Support data enablement (ex. Automation, Pipeline), engineering, KSR
• Contribute to continuous development of analytical and data solutions which are aligned to global frameworks and with a dedicated focus on South Korea business requirement
• Identify trends and insights for business growth across omnichannel sell-through, retail, franchise/wholesale, demand planning and inventory reporting
• Implementation of KPI harmonization across the organization
• Ensure verification of correctness and completeness of data models, data relationships, mappings and definitions

Consulting

• Takes responsibility for understanding stakeholders’ requirements, data collection, delivering analysis and problem resolution
• Identifies, evaluates, and recommends options, implementing if required
• Seeks to fully address stakeholders needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of stakeholders personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited

Reporting

• Define new processes and data solutions that will enable stakeholders to have one stop shop when it comes to reporting
• Help distill best practice guidance from other markets and other adidas stakeholders to maximize the use of analytics capabilities within South Korea.
• Take ownership of business intelligence by providing self-service reporting solutions to other teams as well as creating awareness of the state of the business by highlighting key focus areas to senior management.

Innovation

• Build a strong internal and external network and contribute to the growth and development of the South Korea Analytics community
• Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organization.
• Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations

Key Relationships: 

• South Korea Business functions (Retail, e-com, Franchise/Wholesale, Finance, Brand and Demand Planning)
• Data & Analytics | EM, JP, KR team
• Global Data & Analytics

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• MS Office (Excel; Outlook; Word; PowerPoint)
• Experience with BI tools (e.g. Power BI or other BI tools)
• SQL knowledge is required
• Strong analytical, logical and process thinking
• Strong communication & influencing skills will be a plus
• Strong business sense and ability to identify the business needs and opportunities will be a plus
• Ability to excel in a team-oriented work environment

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 2-3 years of relevant work experience (internship experience will be considered)
• Proficiency in dashboard reporting, standard reporting, report optimization will a plus
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills in KR/EN
• Understanding of the business domain and the interaction of business processes with data entities/elements