Sr. Specialist In-Season Trading, ECOM

Specialist eCommerce Merchandise Planning – EM HUB

Area:                                                                                       Merchandising

Department:                                                                           CX & Trading

Direct Reporting Line: Sr. Manager eCom Planning EM HUB

Indirect/secondary reporting line:                                       Director Merchandising EM HUB

Subsidiary/country:                                                               India

Location:                                                                                Gurugram

GSMS Grade:                                                                                       P1

Number of Personnel Managed:                                           N/A

Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility:           

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is responsible for maximizing the sales, profitability, and brand equity of eCommerce through the management and execution of:

• Build, enhance, and create merchandise reports to support the Sr. Manager of Merchandising on Intake, Sales & Product Information as well as own country/cluster planning responsibilities.
• In-season article reporting and trading to ensure category and product performance meets expectations via a suite of KPIs and tools.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate & provide documentation and information for monthly inventory meeting for inventory flow planning.
• Provide insights & updates through reporting suite to eCommerce (eCom) Emerging Markets Team and the Local Country/Cluster buying teams to build, deliver & interpret regular (Daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/seasonal) category business & trading updates.
• Manage and monitor sales plans vs actuals to make recommendations and provide insights on article level performance to enact business decisions.
• Understand the data requirements needed to build tools and reports to support the team and connect with analytics on request for advancement of merchandising processes and insights.
• Track, analyze, interpret and provide recommendations based on/for: market benchmarks and KPIs on productivity and sell thru, Improvement of Range Yield/Range Profitability, and other key merchandising KPIs.
• Forecast planning on business unit level, net sales, margin and ASP.
• Update category reports- To influence in-season & end of season markdown strategy.
• Product mix according to Country, Season, Target customer, share of categories, gender mix, etc.
• Provide insight and suggestion for eCommerce channels in reconciliation with the Hub Merchandisers & Country/Cluster buying teams.
• Support the enhancement of all product planning systems and tools to suit world class buying practice across SEA.
• Drive eCommerce capacity planning processes for all Emerging Market countries.
• Provide insights and influence integrated business planning.
• Work pro-actively, propose changes in processes to continually drive best in class experience for the adidas consumer.
• Other duties as requested by your manager.

 Key Relationships:

• eCom Team
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Demand Planning/Finance Teams
• Marketing Activations/Campaign Operations
• Emerging Markets Analytics
• Consumer Experience Team
• Country eCom Buying Teams

 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Structured, organized and process orientated.
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment and under pressure
• Strong analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Fluent in English
• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products – esp. Excel, Access, PPT
• Advanced knowledge of Retail Management Systems – SAP AFS, SAP PGR, DVM, Microstrategy
• Dashboarding/Data Visualization experience a plus 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree, ideally in business with sales and finance focus or equivalent professional experience
• 1-3 years’ experience in merchandising or related functions (incl. buying, planning, distribution, budgeting)
• eCom experience a plus
• Functional awareness of Operations and Finance