Manager Operations Global Entertainment and Influencer Marketing

Job description

Country: United States
Job Function: Marketing & Communications

State / Province: California
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Los Angeles
Brand: adidas

Relocation: No

Somewhere, in one of our workshops right now, the future is taking shape. We are constantly working to redefine the way clothing and footwear transforms the pitch, court or course. This is what drives us: the feeling of discovery and the urge to innovate. When we create a product that makes our hearts beat faster, we know we’re onto something.

If this sounds inspiring, you might be one of us: Someone who loves to create the present, as well as shape the future. There’s a reason adidas has been at the forefront of defining sport for more than 60 years: We never stand still. Everyday, we work to improve everything we create.

At adidas, interesting, amazing and inspiring aren’t just ideas. They are what we do every single day.

Key Responsibilities

· Manage business support on a daily basis and be the single point of contact for customer requests about EIM processes, tools and access requests in vertical BUs, Markets, Finance and Legal in both HQ and Markets.
· Manage and coordinate external IT vendors for Service Management like e.g. IT Service Meetings, prioritize and follow up on IT issues.
· Manage and coordinate Finance/Accounting functions for EIM. Vendor management, Global budget coordination
· Develop and drive training concepts (incl. training materials) and platform for EIM Learning and interfacing departments on global and market level.
· Lead all EIM (Operations & Internal) Communication to all stakeholders on global or market level regarding process, tool or policy changes
· Drive implementation of the EIM Servicing process within the tools.
· Collect and channel demand for EIM (incl. interfaces to legal, finance and servicing departments) process as well as IT system improvements, support during user Acceptance testing for Sports Marketing related tool.
· Development and performance management of team interns
· Responsibility for updates and monitoring of asset EIM marketing portfolio by cleaning respective databases
· Prepare data for initial loads and migrations of asset relevant information for the various sports marketing tools
· Drive CAF project – tool creation, rollout and ongoing servicing
· Support Portfolio Planning for EIM
· Drive and manage data analytics functions for EIM
· Identify and recommend new systems

Authorities

· Access to contracted asset data: personal, financial, body measurements
· Access to EIM financial figures and strategy

Key Relationships

· Global Business Units
· Global, Markets Finance
· Factories and warehouse departments
· External software consultancy companies and software vendors

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

· Pro-active (engaging & impact-oriented) mind-set, ability to think end-to-end
· Problem solving mentality and target oriented work style
· Very strong communication skills
· Good analytical skills
· Technical background/understanding as a plus
· Ability to quickly adopt to changing business environment
· Sports affinity an advantage
· Change management an advantage

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

· A four-year degree from an accredited college or university with emphasis on the areas of business, information systems or Marketing or other technical discipline
· > 3 years of relevant work experience
· Project management experience an advantage
· Data analysis background
· IT Skills
· MS Outlook -advanced
· MS Office - advanced