Senior Manager Strategic Planning, Business Development

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:

Contribute to the execution of the adidas Japan organization’s operational and commercial strategies by managing key initiatives, projects and cross-functional projects; be an active team member in cross-functional teams
Support the mid-/long-term planning of the business
Contribute to the management of both business and organizational changes through all aspects of change management including internal communication

Key Responsibilities:

Business Growth’

Drive and support the growth of business in line with the targets and objectives.

Business Support

Support Managing Director and senior management team in facilitating strategic priorities, monitoring and reporting business KPIs to key stakeholders, deep-diving on strategical key issues

Strategic Planning process

Support & drive the local Strategic Business Planning (SBP) process (e.g., document development, local alignment, global submissions, communication packages), for the future 2-5 year period

Support other regular and ad-hoc strategic planning activities (e.g., MBR, quarterly strategy offsites, workshops, individual briefings)

Strategic documents development

Develop strategic presentations and business planning documents to senior mgmt team
Drive the development of executive/board level presentations and reports, including Japan/ BU / functional strategy communication & updates and YTD cross-functional business updates

Data analysis and decision support

Develop financial and quantitative models relevant to strategy planning (e.g., business simulation, revenue projection, market share development, financial statement analysis)

Synthesize data and prepare analysis to support senior management decision-making on priority topics (typically working cross-functionally)

Key Relationships:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Previous experience within the international sporting goods and/or apparel and footwear industry
Demonstrated knowledge of business KPIs and ability to work with numbers
Ability to turn vision and plans into action
Strong collaboration skills with the ability to create effective, deep and successful working relationships across all levels of the organization and multiple departments
Leadership capabilities of driving a team forward and tackle issues or hurdles
Understanding of change management processes
Good communication and written skills
Team player and can work independently with confidence in making decisions
Always open to new ideas and embrace change with creativity

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

University degree in Business studies, Marketing, Communications or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing
Fluent in English
Expert Power Point user
Advanced Excel user
Intermediate statistics and modelling knowledge
Strong communication skills
Fluent written and spoken English
At least intermediate level in Japanese preferred
Passion for sports