Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Support the team with Global Wholesale (WHS) sell-out data collation, reporting and analyzing with key markets and top Key Accounts (KAs).
Manage the setting of standards for relevant KPIs and key insight-driven activities across the Business Analyst community with a focus towards the achievement of strategic and financial goals.
Support with key planning activities through data modeling for business case scoping, budget management, and resource planning.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Responsible for weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for Sales Management, Finance and Marketing to provide detailed overview of business performance
2. Responsible for supporting key annual priority and project planning activities for Wholesale organization, including business case scoping, budget management, and general resource analysis.
3. Manage the collation of best in class analytical and reporting tools and processes from multiple (Sales, Brand) perspectives.
4. Manage the onboarding and data validation of sell-out data from different sources across markets, ultimately for cross-channel analysis purposes
5. Actively participate in the community of business analysts with best practice sharing and gathering business needs
6. Support the WHS Planning & Projects team with franchise reporting analysis and insights
7. Develop new WHS reporting solutions and insights to further support the overall WHS business.
8. Manage the community with meeting organization, feedback collation, regular and proactive information.
9. Manage the relationship with the Global sell-out data vendor, SPS, organize and participate at regular business updates
10. Regular progress tracking with SPS and market counterparts
11. Support the management of technical project pipeline of implementation with SPS and different stakeholders (weekly review)
12. SPS Budget planning and tracking with Global Finance and Markets
13. Ownership of the invoicing process
14. Support Franchise management initiatives with relevant Wholesale insights
15. Regular exchange with Global Finance / X-channel team
Key Relationships:
Global: Sales Finance, Global IT, Data & Analytics, Digital Products Team
Market: Finance & Account teams, Data & Analytics teams, relevant KA teams, KA business analysts
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
16. Strong understanding and interpreting sell-through data to recommend changes that positively impact the business
17. Experience understanding and developing consumer, customer, Wholesale, Retail, and competitor trends
18. Ability to build reporting solutions (e.g. reports and dashboards)
19. Good understanding of data system architecture and processes, both transactional- and primary data related
20. Ability to think strategically
21. Demonstrated analytical and financial skills, comfortable with Finance and Accounting principles and strong financial statement analysis ability
22. Ability to effectively prepare information for senior executives and other relevant stakeholders
23. High degree of commercial understanding, customer orientation and proactive demand management
24. High level of inquisitiveness; thinks beyond the obvious and does not stop at the first answer
25. Fluency in English (written and spoken)
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
26. University degree in Finance, Accounting or Business
27. Minimum 4 years’ experience in either Wholesale, Retail, or Digital analytics/planning/buying or related field
28. Proven experience in financial and/or operational reporting and analysis with progressive responsibility
29. Very good Excel and PowerPoint skills required
30. Solid understanding of WHS & Retail business models, processes, & math, key business drivers
31. Familiarity with PowerBI, BI (Hana) and other relevant adidas and industry analytical software a major plus