Manager Assortment Planning, Gtm Planning & Insight, Brand Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Team member of holistic Store Assortment Plans for Sales Chanels and accounts in scope, Including Shop In Shop, Cross account assortment (Common Range), working closely with Planning & Insight, Business Unit(BU), Brand Activation and Sales Channels to populate and deploy Key Brand concepts in the marketplace.

Key Responsibilities:

• Combine/validate category range plans from BU, and finalize into a holistic, full store format assortment plan (width only)
• Sense-check, feedback and confirm the final output of each store format against brand and commercial objectives (product type, launch flow, marketing calendar, mandatory range, retail space, consumer journey, etc.)
• Output all merchandising boards for all store formats
• Handover assortment plans to Visual merchandising Team for output of Visual Merchandising(VM) renderings
• Handover assortment plans to the Account teams for store level planning and depth completion
• Deliver assortment plan(AP) presentations at Seasonal Sales Summit and provide material and support for Sales Training, Accounts Pre-lines, Tenjikai
• AP room Sample merchandising / Managementtogether with BU Category and VM for Sales Training, Accounts Pre-lines, Tenjikai
• Sell In & Sell Through tracking & analysis
• Validate buy plan (where applicable)

Key Relationships:

• Go To Market(GTM) Planning&Insight and BU
• Brand Communications
• Sales Channels (Wholesale Key Accounts, Retail Buying, e-Commerce)
• Account sales and category sales, buyers

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Marketing, merchandising and/or retail experience, with a distinct track record of success
• Strong presentation/communications skills
• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
• Solid merchandising experience with retail end in mind
• Passion for sports

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing
• Minimum 3-5 years relevant working experience
• Intermediate in English
• Fluent in Japanese