Sr. Specialist Sports Marketing Scouting

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• This role plays an instrumental part in the way that the brand is portrayed within the global football market and ensures on a day-to-day basis that we continue to raise the awareness and image of adidas as the No. 1 Global football brand.
• Servicing criteria for players is extremely demanding. This position relies heavily on interpersonal skills and relationship building to achieve higher levels of partner collaboration.
• Absolute consistency in the approach to servicing and gaining full value from player associations is critical and teamwork is essential to drive standards upwards.
• adidas has always been associated with the best symbols and provides the best service. The brand of choice by professionals.

Key Responsibilities:

• To detect, identify and sign young upcoming talents and professional icons of adidas, with responsibility for players across the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
• To become a key contact in the world of football in Rio de Janeiro by providing excellence of servicing and product supply.
• To provide an integrated approach to securing the best young football talents from young age and establish adidas as the desirable brand for players and professionals alike.
• To create a network in the world of football among players, coaches, agents etc.
• To work within the adidas Football Player Management team and contribute to the global football strategy by bringing local expertise and information.
• To utilise industry knowledge always providing feedback to the brand: player info, competitor activity, product feedback.
• To manage all administrative tasks ensuring efficient operation of the Brazil Sports Marketing team (Asset Management System, invoice tracking, competition calendar maintenance etc.)
• Proactively optimize service levels through collaboration with Sports Marketing Specialist team to ensure timely and accurate product seeding.
• Attending to the needs of our contracted symbols by checking availability and processing product requests through credit cards, SAP and/or arranging store visits.

Key Relationships:

• Football Player Management Team (Brazil and Global), including Player Managers, Scouting Managers, Global Scouting Director and other Territory Directors
• Football BU functions, including Brand Marketing, CTC, Athlete Services
• Sports Marketing Operations
• Newsroom (player publishing), PR & Brand Communications
• Finance, Legal and other internal support functions
• External: consultants, players, agents, families, clubs, football industry network

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• The individual must be highly motivated and focused on task in hand.  He or she must be extremely well organised with an empathy towards the sport.
• Football background, e.g. as a player on a high level and/or coaching/employee on the industry.
• Football fanatic.
• Needs to have both football knowledge and business mindset.
• Schedule flexibility: Position requires substantial travel for meetings with players, families, agents, clubs and attendance at matches/tournaments.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Good planning & organisation.
• Product knowledge.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Good communication-verbal and written skills.
• Proficiency with computers and standard software (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
• Football market and industry awareness.
• Football sport knowledge
• Commercial awareness, knowledge of the sporting goods business model.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Good network and reputation in the world of football.
• Understanding of the issues facing players (e.g. financial, media, relocation, languages, etc.) and the ability to help adidas develop programmes to assist players with these issues.