Manager Sales Operations Replenishment

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at adidas means championing individual uniqueness and cultivating a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best.  We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.
• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service,  eleven paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
• We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote.  The working location of this position is Portland, OR.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.

 

Purpose:

Operate as the Wholesale functional owner of the NAM Never-Out-Of-Stock (NOS) replenishment program by supporting wholesale and sales planning as their central point of contact, and by partnering with other key functions to develop, operationalize and improve the NOS program.

 

 

Key Accountabilities:

• Act as the operational expert and single point of contact of the NOS replenishment program for the NAM wholesale channel
• Execute consistent forecast and supply analysis from reports to drive insights and NOS program optimization that supports the wholesale team and business partners
• Identify and discuss current trends and risks/opportunities to the business and prepare recommendations and solutions to maximize sales, profitability or customer experience
• Support development and monitoring of KPIs to track forecasting accuracy, adjustments and other key metrics and provide contextual information to business partners
• Communicate supply constraints to impacted wholesale teams in a proactive, consistent and timely manner
• Assign and maintain NOS program order allocation system controls in SAP and coordinate any required rebalancing across customers
• Review and escalate as needed exceptional replenishment orders that impact NOS supply
• Assess impact of consumption rates to future forecast reconciliation
• Educate and train wholesale on the methodology, tools, reports and necessary knowledge to support the NOS program for their retail customers
• Collaborate and liaise with local and global Responsiveness teams to share best practices, utilize tools & educate
• Support cross functional, strategic projects related to the NOS program by providing additional analytics when necessary
• Engage and participate in cross-functional projects as required

 

Knowledge Skills