Manager Partner Development, Digital Wholesale

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Be responsible for developing and scaling innovative solutions to improve adidas online business performance with account partners
• Build a mechanism to improve the business process for Japan WHS team to operate regular work effectively and efficiently
• Drive the implementation of innovative solutions, developed by Global Digital Wholesale
• Be the key point of contact in Japan WHS team and lead various projects to build an effective process while interacting with internal/external stakeholders across the globe
• Leading the digital agenda across the market organization together with Market and Cluster Digital stakeholders to increase digital knowledge and experience
• Communicate with internal various teams such as marketing, business planning, adidas eCOM team to drive online adidas credibility

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive digital transformation by researching various effective business tools to best-fit to team operations and adopting these to improve a process by removing manual tasks such as Excel work for all employees in Japan WHS, and work together with IT team to build enterprise system (e.g SAP)
• Implementation of a new analytics model including Japan-specific ones, which is related to sell-in/sell-out, market trend, consumer journey and search word trend leveraging various tools such as Power BI and Google Analytics)
• Be a point of contact for Japan WHS team and global Digital WHS team and a diverse set of internal stakeholders in Japan to build a mechanism to adopt new digital tools smoothly to Japanese business partners (e.g automation tool implementation to download digital contents such as images, size-chart, and consumer review from adidas)
• Give tools implementation guidance cross-functionally and continue to monitor progress and results to remove potential roadblocks while working with a line manager
• Assist the line manager in leading education and upskilling on relevant digital tools and initiatives across Global Digital Wholesale organization & account teams (Pure Players & Omni accounts)
• Update and feedback on tools and automation to appropriate stakeholders ensuring continuous improvement
• Input into new initiatives across the organization - DBC & DA (e.g. Memberships, etc.)

Key Relationships:

• Business planning, Business Analytics and Platform Operations teams
• ECOM Buying, ECOM Operations, Financial Services, and Analytics teams
• Account lead, managers
• IT, Finance and Legal teams
• Global and Digital Wholesale teams in each country cluster
• Brand communication and activation team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Project management skills related to digital and/or eCommerce, ideally including system Integration
• Basic to advanced Microsoft Office skills and Google Analytics
• Advanced Power BI and SQL skills, and proficiency in spreadsheet analysis. Self-motivated and passionate about deriving business insight from data, improving business processes, and solving problems.
• Excellent PowerPoint skills coupled with excellent communication and presentation skills
• High knowledge of digital tools to improve operational processes (e.g. familiarity with various AI tools)
• Deep understanding of online retail business (e.g. Sales, Website building, Web marketing, eCommerce Systems)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills (interest in technical and business eCommerce projects a must).
• Quick to learn new systems and tools and programming (e.g Python, RPA)
• Proven ability to drive alignment among multiple stakeholders in an international environment
• Experience in breaking down complex, ambiguous challenges into structured solutions

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in project management in digital area and improvement of business processes through the implementation of new digital tools
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Online Sales/Marketing
• Business level English for writing and speaking *Fluency in English is required
• Minimum conversational Japanese is required
• MBA is preferred

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE'S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

• COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
• OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
• INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
• TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
• INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company's standards.
• RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

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