Assistant Manager Go-To-Market - NCAA, Licensed, Team

Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization

Support Merch leads to provide functional and operational needs for Merchandising and Go-to-Market (GTM) process in assigned Team sport categories to help deliver business requirements and sales goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver Sell-In Needs for assigned categories, including: sample ordering, system management, building sales collateral, internal/external product presentations, etc.
• Ensure GTM Excellence by collaborating with key functions to deliver products deliver on time and in full (Demand Planning, Purchasing and Order Fulfillment)
• Support Merch strategies based on Consumer and Marketplace needs while also meeting Key Business Metrics/KPIs (focusing on the sport categories assigned)
• Lead Business Tracking and Reporting for assigned categories, including: bookings/sell-through analysis, forecast/inventory planning, launch recaps, seasonal hindsighting, etc.
• Own full GTM process for selected categories and vendors, as needed
  
  

Key Relationships

• Sales Teams
• Category Teams, Business Units
• Comms/Sports Marketing, SCM, Demand Planning, Collateral
• Retail, Wholesale and eCommerce
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Proven ability to be Highly Collaborative and Influential across all functions and levels of the organization
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Competence in analyzing and manipulating data to make decisions and communicate objectives
• Excellent Systems Competence (examples below)
• Microsoft Office Suite - especially Excel and Powerpoint
• Merchandising Systems/Tools, Power BI
• Ability to be Proactive and Solution Oriented
  
  

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree with emphasis on the areas of merchandising, business, finance, or marketing or comparable professional experience.
• 2 years of merchandising, product marketing or planning experience
  
  

**At adidas we offer a hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week**

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