Director, Strategic Planning, Business Development

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• To support profitable and sustainable market share growth for all brands (adidas) in the Market by providing strategic insights through internal and external data synthesis, decision-support analysis and strategic planning processes.
• Support the execution of the Korea priorities by working closely with the Korea BD and PMO team on key strategic cross-functional projects and initiatives.

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.
• Within the mid- and long-term ambition of Korea's strategic gameplan to win customers, consumers and marketplace, develop and support driving the Strategic Plan/ Priorities across Brands, Channels and enabling functions as well as developing yearly priorities.

Data driven Decision making 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) – scorecard, priority results, priority roadmap

Strategic documents development:

• Develop strategic presentations and business planning documents to Senior Leadership Team.
• Drive the development of executive level presentations and reports.

Korea Transformation:

• Drive the execution of Korea transformation plan supporting the Mono channel with strategic approaches and frameworks for Decision making.
• Support on planning thought process and strategic approach to growth journey for mono-transformation and be a sounding board to the channel partners.

External consultancy and research:

• Support strategic thought process for external research activities, including agenda-setting, consultant selection and research planning.

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 Director (and Sales Management Team)
• Brand Director (and Marketing Management 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-retailer or Consulting
• Experience in working closely with middle and senior leaders across functions
• Strong analytical skills, problem solving skills and communication skills
• Project management experience
• Expert Power Point user, Expert Excel user, Thinkcell or visualization tools familiarity

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 7-9 years of general business experience (ideally in more than one business function); equivalent experience in 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 (good to have)