Manager Retail Excellence

Location

Herzogenaurach | Germany

Job description

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

The Manager Retail Excellence SCM Europe is responsible for supporting the SCM Retail roadmap with focus on close alignment with Sales, coordinating different SCM functions on key initiatives, performance improvements and tactical alignment as needed, looking at the end-to-end flow from order placement to delivery to the store. The role is contributing to reach a best-in-class service model for adidas owned Concept Stores and Factory Outlets. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development, planning and execution of Supply Chain Retail initiatives
• Build on partnerships with stakeholders in Supply Chain, Sales, IT to enable alignment on day-to-operations and facilitate consistency between expectations and capabilities through proactive communication
• Act as a trusted partner to Retail commercial teams by communicating performance, capabilities, new implementations and escalations. 
• Support assigned projects effectively with timely communication on project progress and results to Senior Management and stakeholders
• Contribute significantly to continuous improvement of Supply Chain Retail capabilities 
• Monitor performance of Supply Chain Retail initiatives against targets - identify deviations and initiate necessary changes 
• Drive or support system and process enhancements that help improve the Retail SC related KPIs
• Identify and implement improvement opportunities
• Work closely with the European and global Supply Chain teams as well as market and global Retail teams to support implementation of solutions efficiently
• Maintain toolkit and best practices

Key Relationships:

• Stakeholders can relate to the following core functions:
• Europe Market (functions within SCM and Commercial/RETAIL functions Global Sales (Retail)
• GOPS
• GSCM
• Finance EMEA + SCM 
• Global and Europe IT

Knowledge Skills and Abilities: 

• Proven collaboration and people skills
• Strong communication skills, especially when interacting with different levels of business
• Ability to mediate, convince and build consensus between cross-functional stakeholders with different objectives
• Good knowledge about Retail and Omnichannel fulfilment
• Profound SAP knowledge
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with different international cultures
• Business- and solution-oriented mindset
• Good knowledge about Omnichannel, fulfilment, and e-com and Retail
• Self-initiated and pro-active mind-set 
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to think end-to-end and operate cross-functional and good understanding of external business drivers 
• Team player 
• High level of system knowledge (MS Office suite) 
• Fluent in English both verbal and written

Qualifications:

• College or university Degree
• Over 3-5 years of relevant work experience in eCom/Retail/Omnichannel fulfillment related functions 
• Prior work in business functions (i.e. Sales, Retail, eCom) is a plus

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