Senior Specialist Digital Solutions

Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organisation

To manage successful digital solutions development, enhancement and implementation from business systems, tools & reporting perspective, successful go-to-market strategies implementation for adidas across all East countries by involving key functions

Key Responsibilities

• To manage and drive the launch, development and implementation of a new digital solutions for all Sell-in tools (DTB, SAP, PO Sheets) and co-ordinate all activities around (testing, proactive countries engagement, feedback, follow up actions)
• Act as a key East contact point to Europe / GIT for all inquiries related to the implementation of the new Tool
• Co-ordinate cross-functionally with internal interfaces (e.g. Sales, Marketing, GIT, Europe community) to ensure the platform offers East-relevant, timely and engaging content
• Drive EDI implementation (both ordering / sell-out) among strategic partners
• To enable and provide standard business performance tracking and analysis on sell-in from all Sales Channels via the different Sell-in tools (GSS, Click, SAP, EDI) and provide findings and recommendations to decision makers and follow up usage
• To drive and ensure sales systems readiness prior to sell-in and data flow management across the entire system chain on a quarterly basis
• To identify functional training needs for sales & marketing teams, to develop or adjust trainings and execute them, to ensure advanced knowledge transfer, to monitor and assess best practice implementation status
• To ensure smooth troubleshooting of Sell-in tools during Sell-in period

KPI's

• Net Sales and contribution target achievement
• Functional target achievement (e.g. Sell-in readiness)
• Positive feedback on Sell-in tools readiness (Survey based)

Key Relationships

• Sales
• Brand activation
• MOPS
• Europe / Global IT

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g. communication)
• Very good analytical & mathematical thinking
• Advanced user of MS Excel and SAP & passion for systems
• Very good command of English language
• PC knowledge
• Team player, initiative approach
• Must be comfortable in a global, virtual environment
• Customer focus
• Project Management

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree in business, ideally with sales / mathematics / finance / IT focus
• Financial background and IT skills to manage administration of systems interfaces between global and market set-up.
• Min. 2 years of Experience with sales performance tracking tools, troubleshooting of sales systems or testing new sales applications and systems is an advantage