Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization
This role supports the Franchise Business by driving and executing trading activities, including reviewing buys and collaborating closely with external franchise buyers and in-season trading teams. The focus is on delivering planned sales, optimizing margins, and ensuring effective stock management.
This Includes
- Implementing the country merchandising strategy in alignment with overall business objectives.
- Executing the end-to-end merchandising process to ensure seamless operations.
- Providing guidance on buying strategy and assortment planning for franchise stores.
- Delivering relevant insights and feedback to the Product/ Omni-Channel teams to support continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive initiatives and provide guidance on franchise store buying, leading the buy process with Franchise Partners to ensure optimal store performance and alignment with company standards.
- Develop product assortments based on share of business, considering store formats, product categories, store types, and gender mix for FRS.
- Support the implementation of key country strategic priorities across all FRS stores.
- Assist the Buying Manager in planning and executing buys in line with OTB across all franchise doors.
- Drive and achieve key benchmarks and KPIs, including productivity and sell-through performance.
- Support FRS partners by providing the right range recommendations per store, aligned with EM/SEA seasonal strategies to ensure an appropriate and effective buy.
- Ensure all orders for FRS are placed accurately and within the required timelines.
- Collaborate closely with external franchise buyers and In-Season Trading teams to ensure product grading and option plans align with space management guidelines for FRS.
- Manage in-season chase models (Best Seller, In-Season Creation, and Planned Responsiveness) to maintain optimal inventory levels for FRS.
- Adhere to the FRS store visit schedule to ensure sufficient time is spent in stores for performance review and execution follow-up.
Key Relationships
- Internal: Franchise Team, Product Team/OMNI Channel, Brand Comms, VM, Finance
- External: Franchise Partners
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
Competency
- Strong analytical mind set - details and numbers oriented
- Datamining & Presentation skills
- Business Acumen & problem-solving skills
- Category know how - products, ranges, market trends
- Planning & Organizing
- Manage Relationships and diversity
- Big picture thinking
- Process and system understanding
- Learning and self-development
- Collaboration & Influencing skills
- Ability to multitask
Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications
- Professional Background/Experience:
- Functional: Minimum 2 years in Retail Industry
- Industry: Preferably in Sports & Fashion or FMCG Retail
- Commercial or key account sales experience will have an added advantage for this role.
- Education:
- Degree or Diploma in Fashion / Marketing / Retail Management
Microsoft Skills
- Excel: Advanced
- PowerPoint: Advanced
- Word: Advanced
Language Skills
- English: Advanced
- Local Language: Fluent
adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an equal opportunity employer.
