Manager, Product Planning, Wholesale

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

To drive profitable and sustainable market share growth by driving product planning to fit assigned channels and categories while respecting the image of the adidas Group brands

Key Responsibilities:

• Communicate with BU Originals / Basketball /Partnership and AP team of Retail Buying team.
• Throughout the overall GTM process, input channel request and give feedback by category landscape.
• Review range, segmentation, and assortment plan from AP team and align with AP team and provide a seasonal range to mono channels.
• Summarize and prepare seasonal brand strategy for mono channel and deliver the contents to mono partners.
• Review category & product division sales of mono channel in terms of product planning.
• Support strategically important key mono partners that focus on department channel during Key account meeting,
• Collect feedback and support requests from channels in terms of product and range to seek additional sales opportunities.
• Review actual buy mono channels and be involved in required action plans.
• Review weekly/monthly sell out results for all categories, all angles and provide relevant channel insights to adequate teams.
• Share market situation, condition, needs and changes to the respective team head periodically.

Key Relationships:

• Market: Mono Sales, Customer Service, BP&A, BU/Category teams, MOPS, P&I, DTC channels (retail, e-com), Business development, Finance
• External: Customers

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to implement strategy
• Presentation/communication, negotiation and influencing skills, especially with senior stakeholders within a global matrix organization
• Numerical & analytical skills
• Cross-functional and stakeholder management experience across commercial functions (e.g. marketing, sales, etc.) and support functions (finance preferred), as well as different organizational levels (Global, Market, etc.)
• Industry knowledge, across divisions—footwear, apparel and accessories—and across all Bus.
• Understanding of Korea market consumers, accounts, economic environment and commercial needs

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of work experience in sales, channel, merchandising, buying and products with a recognized top-tier brand in Sports/Fashion industry.
• Exposure to other marketing disciplines preferable, e.g. retail / ecom / merchandising, or sales channel experience
• University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing
• Possess good sense of retail market situation
• Fluent both in English and Korean