Sr. Manager Trading

Senior Manager DTC Trading Country- 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:
- Work closely with omnichannel team for the Marketing Campaign Investment, have a timely & full allocations. Also assure the relocation of products based on the sell through
- Manage end of the season transition & markdowns to maximize the profitability of the channel in the country. Align proactively with other channels & internal stake holders like demand planning, FP&A etc
- Responsible to optimize the omnihub ecosystem including Ship from stores, click & collect. To optimize the inventory & maximize the sales
- Provide relevant inputs to the buying team to build required range and assortment planning strategy for the Retail Channel
- Work closely with 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 including retail ops, retail marketing 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
- Actively work with real estate team to launch new stores with strong first allocation plan & monitor the store performance against segmentation
- Work closely with VM team, buying team & retail ops team to establish the right ecosystem of stores
- Define the key parameters at store level for example size of store ( flagship), option turns, back of house etc to define the right service level agreement with the supply chain team.
- Closely work with retail ops team & store manager to improve the allocation, replenishment of stores
- Learn from the sell out data, events or changing store environments to assure that team is adapting the allocations & replenishment
- Own the calendar of factory outlet promotions to meet the sales & standard margin targets
- Simulate the inventory from DTC & WHS returns to calculate right amount of Global factory outlet ( GFO ) buy
- Inputs to the GFO range assortment & decide the qty, product types & model requirements.
- Define the rules of replenishment & continuously evolve based on the business requirements & systems capability
- Key Relationships:
- Omnichannel activation team
- Demand planning team
- FP&A team
- Retail ops
- Very closely with Buying team
- 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
- Able to utilize & optimize the business intelligence tools
- Experience to work in omnichannel environment including SFS, click & collect etc
- Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- 7-10 years of experience
- As manager of Experts 2- 4 years management experience required

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..

OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.

INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.

TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.

INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company’s standards.

RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

**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.**

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- JOB TITLE:
- Sr. Manager Trading- BRAND:
- LOCATION:
- Mexico City- TEAM:
- Merchandising & Planning- STATE:
- Ciud- COUNTRY/REGION:
- MX- CONTRACT TYPE:
- Full time-