Sr Manager DTC Buying and Trading

Job description

Country: Colombia
Job Function: Retail (Back Office)

State / Province: Cundinamarca
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Bogota
Brand: adidas

Relocation:

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.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is responsible for maximising the profitability of DTC by building and driving commercial strategies. Responsibilities include implementing merchandising best practise 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 practise 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 and have a buy check with the partner at the end of the season to maximize the profitability of the adidas Group in the country and give the best product experience to consumers
· Drive range and assortment planning strategy for the Retail & Franchise Channel to ensure brand strategies and commercial success that affect in a positive way the top and bottom line
· Align a category based Open-To-Buy (OTB) plan (pre-season product planning, option planning, range planning, demand planning) to reduce inventories and have a healthy stock turn
· Drive constant improvements in Allocation and Replenishment (A&R) techniques 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
· Lead the end-to-end in season management including management of best sellers and worst sellers, in season stock cover management, in season reactivity and sales to space management using the tools available to maximize the profitability of the adidas Group in the country and give 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

Knowledge Skills and Abilities :

· Specialist in business or technical skills with detailed knowledge in some areas of work or systems.
· Broad & deep knowledge in own functional area, combining theoretical and practical knowledge

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

· 7 years experience
· As manager of Experts 0 – 2 years management experience required
· As manager of Admin / Tech Support minimum of 3 years management experience required