Manager WHS Planning & Analytics

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Support the team with Global Wholesale (WHS) sell-out data collation, reporting and analyzing with key markets and top Key Accounts (KAs).

Manage the setting of standards for relevant KPIs and key insight-driven activities across the Business Analyst community with a focus towards the achievement of strategic and financial goals. 
Support with key planning activities through data modeling for business case scoping, budget management, and resource planning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for Sales Management, Finance and Marketing to provide detailed overview of business performance
• Responsible for supporting key annual priority and project planning activities for Wholesale organization, including business case scoping, budget management, and general resource analysis.
• Manage the collation of best in class analytical and reporting tools and processes from multiple (Sales, Brand) perspectives.
• Manage the onboarding and data validation of sell-out data from different sources across markets, ultimately for cross-channel analysis purposes
• Actively participate in the community of business analysts with best practice sharing and gathering business needs
• Support the WHS Planning & Projects team with franchise reporting analysis and insights
• Develop new WHS reporting solutions and insights to further support the overall WHS business.
• Manage the community with meeting organization, feedback collation, regular and proactive information.
• Manage the relationship with the Global sell-out data vendor, SPS, organize and participate at regular business updates
• Regular progress tracking with SPS and market counterparts
• Support the management of technical project pipeline of implementation with SPS and different stakeholders (weekly review) 
• SPS Budget planning and tracking with Global Finance and Markets
• Ownership of the invoicing process
• Support Franchise management initiatives with relevant Wholesale insights  
• Regular exchange with Global Finance / X-channel team  

Key Relationships:

Global: Sales Finance, Global IT, Data & Analytics, Digital Products Team

Market: Finance & Account teams, Data & Analytics teams, relevant KA teams, KA business analysts

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong understanding and interpreting sell-through data to recommend changes that positively impact the business
• Experience understanding and developing consumer, customer, Wholesale, Retail, and competitor trends
• Ability to build reporting solutions (e.g. reports and dashboards)
• Good understanding of data system architecture and processes, both transactional- and primary data related
• Ability to think strategically
• Demonstrated analytical and financial skills, comfortable with Finance and Accounting principles and strong financial statement analysis ability
• Ability to effectively prepare information for senior executives and other relevant stakeholders
• High degree of commercial understanding, customer orientation and proactive demand management
• High level of inquisitiveness; thinks beyond the obvious and does not stop at the first answer
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Finance, Accounting or Business
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in either Wholesale, Retail, or Digital analytics/planning/buying or related field
• Proven experience in financial and/or operational reporting and analysis with progressive responsibility
• Very good Excel and PowerPoint skills required
• Solid understanding of WHS & Retail business models, processes, & math, key business drivers
• Familiarity with PowerBI, BI (Hana) and other relevant adidas and industry analytical software a major plus