Director, Strategic Planning & PMO, Business Development

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