Manager EU eCommerce Planning and Forecasting

Location:

Amsterdam – Nederland, Netherlands

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

Search Information Technology Jobs

Advertiser:

adidas

Job ID:

131633701

Posted On:

27 February 2025

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As a Manager eCom Planning and Forecasting at adidas, you play a crucial role in shaping the company’s digital market strategy through accurate planning and forecasting. You are responsible for developing, maintaining and running a cutting-edge planning and forecasting process ensuring high-quality data inputs and outputs. Your technical expertise and data-driven mindset enable you to provide actionable insights that drive business decisions and optimize performance.

Key Responsibilities: 

Scope: Accountable for developing, maintaining and running the eCom business planning and forecasting processes, ensuring data accuracy, and providing actionable insights to support adidas’ digital market objectives.

-Business Planning

-Manage and execute the end-to-end lifecycle of business planning and forecasting processes for the Europe eCommerce business.
-Participate in the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, providing realistic bottom-up forecasts to support the Finance team in creating official target submissions.
-Support the business with daily demand targets and month-end projections to enable better decision-making and optimize business plans.
-Develop and integrate automated models to reduce reliance on manual inputs.
-Maintain a deep understanding of business planning, target setting, budgeting, and campaign planning processes and data flows to effectively communicate and prioritize with stakeholders.
 

-Consulting

-Develop strong relationships with business partners to understand their goals and objectives, outline analytic requirements, and provide solutions to business needs, ensuring high-quality inputs for forecast processes.
-Actively identify opportunities and determine actions to achieve business goals and objectives.
-Provide ad-hoc analyses and build business cases to facilitate insights into the business as needed.
 

-Reporting

-Co-initiate and help implement new reporting structures within your area of responsibility.
-Ensure data accuracy and quality across all outputs provided.
-Continuously innovate reporting and tracking systems to enable stakeholders to monitor sales predictions, potential shortfalls, and future uplifts.
 

Key Relationships: 

-eCom Finance
-eCom Trading
-eCom Brand Activation
-eCom Operations (Order Fulfillment, Payments, Platform Operations)
-eCom SCM
-eCom Omnichannel Team
-Global Digital Analytics
 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

-Soft-Skills

-Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of understanding and simplifying complex systems.
-Ability to think creatively and to drive structured & practical solutions within the wider group.
-Passion for delivering data-driven recommendations that lead to quantifiable improvements in business results and consumer satisfaction.
-Good communication skills, comfortable presenting complex topics to stakeholders at various organizational levels, both in person and remotely.
-Knowledge of financial and operational processes, and KPIs.
-Team player and action oriented with a can-do attitude.
-Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks effectively.
 

2.      Hard-Skills

-Proficient in using ETL tools such as Alteryx, Knime, and SPSS Modeler for projects/workstreams automation.
-Extensive experience in business intelligence practices, including querying, enhancing, interpreting, and delivering moderate to large datasets (proficiency in SQL and coding skills preferred).
-Expert in MS Excel.
-Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.
-Experience in Python is a plus.
 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: 

-University degree in the field of Business, Finance or equivalent 
-4+ years of experience in analytics field
-Experience in eCommerce environment is a plus
 

Learn more about adidas Amsterdam, our benefits, and more: careers.adidas-group/locations/headquarters/amsterdam

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