Manager Retail Buying and Planning

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

 

This role is responsible for maximizing the profitability of DTC by building and driving commercial strategies. Responsibilities include implementing merchandising best practice to ensure delivery of specific trading activity in conjunction with key strategic business goals. A key focus of this role also lies in training and developing the team to ensure merchandising best practice and excellence is maintained and implemented.   

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Lead Merchandising KPI´s for the DTC channel such as: Standard Margin, Weeks Cover, Net Sales @ FP, Sell Thru, Full Price Sell Thru, exclusives, Marketing Campaign Investment, Speed, Option Turn, Promise Attribute, Franchise Investment maximizing the profitability of the adidas brand in the LAM countries and give the best product experience to consumers.

• Ensure countries Open-To-Buy (OTB) plan is aligned on latest sales forecast for the upcoming seasons (pre-season product planning, option planning, range planning, demand planning) to reduce inventories and have a healthy stock turn.                                   
• Drive constant process improvement to ensure the correct execution of the buying strategy and increase conversion rate.           
• Drive a set of key merchandising reports that help evaluate the business goals and ensure this is rolled out within the departments to maximize business opportunities.               
• Be the key point of contact of the buy process review (RDP360 Analysis) across LAM, being the lead of buy analysis providing insights and key business opportunities to senior leadership and country B&T teams, directly impacting the seasonal buy, maximizing the profitability of the adidas Group in the country and provide the best product experience to consumers.         
• Drive the strategy and execution of end of season management to increase Standard Margin, Stock turn and Channel profitability.   
• Drive store categorization project for Retail and Franchise in LAM to create synergies between channels and improve consumer experience.

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Key Relationships:

 

• Senior Leadership (Retail Directors & LAM Country Leads)
• Country B&T Teams
• Brand & Comm Teams
• Supply Chain
• Demand Planning
• Retail Store Operations
• Visual Merchandising
• Assortment Planning
• MOPS Team

 

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

 

• Experienced in job and fully qualified/trained
• Combined broad theoretical and practical knowledge incl. company policies and practices
• Strong competence with various tools, procedures, etc

 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

 

• 5 Years experience