Sr. Manager, Wholesale Strategy Execution

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Sr Manager Wholesale Strategy Execution

adidas  - Portland, OR

 

     

 

PURPOSE

This is a key in-house role that leads execution of the Wholesale Strategy and manages & delivers projects through design, collation & packaging within the Wholesale Channels. It supports strategy, projects & milestones within the boundaries of time, cost & quality while focusing on the Market Leadership and customers’ expectations & requirements.

 

 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Program/Project Management:

 

• Ongoing tracking of project progress, monitoring of quality inputs & outputs, and managing issues/risks
• Lead or co-lead all project meetings and senior management team steering board meetings
• Act as key point of contact with all stakeholders
• Drive coordination for external wholesale meetings with accounts from content deliverables, cadence of meetings and action planning
• Ensure full understanding of project scope to be able to design detailed project plans.
• Manage/coordinate all interdependencies of deliverables across all functions
• Monitor and highlight any project variables (cost, effort, scope, etc.) against the project plan and make suggestions to implement corrective or preventative actions.
• If required support any changes for the respective project and ensure changes are smoothly and successfully implemented to achieve lasting benefits.
• Finalize all activities across the projects/programs to formally close and hand over the project, ensuring project documents are approved, completed, maintained, and stored appropriately.

 

Strategy Execution:

• Ongoing tracking of project progress, monitoring of quality inputs & outputs, and managing issues/risks to the Wholesale Strategy
• Liaising across Sales, Marketing, Merchandising, Global Functions, etc. to map out and track progress towards business ambitions for the channel
• Support on content creation and coordination for workback calendars to ensure the Wholesale team is prepared and ready for Account facing strategic miles