Job Detail
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Job ID 26434
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Career Level Senior
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Experience 10-14 Years
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Gender Male Female
Job Description
Senior Director Football & Motorsport EM at Adidas act as a General Manager and guardian of the category across the Emerging Markets by creating & executing Go to Market plans within the global framework but locally relevant for the Business Unit to drive brand and business success for the Business Units of Football & Motorsports. This is a Senior level full time job. And salary can range between 35000-75000 AED/month.
Responsibilities of Senior Director Football & Motorsport
- Drive & develop 3-5 year category plan based on overall adidas SBP process (in collaboration with Global)
- Provide BU leadership within category (across all related functions & departments) on vision, strategic objectives/actions & financial targets as defined in brand SBP
- Deliver financial expectations set out in the SBP / IBP across all channels and countries.
- Work with Concept to Consumer teams to set & monitor EM pricing corridor for category range.
- Define & implement EM cluster & channels allocation for global allocated products.
- Define category CI and lead the communication with Global BU to get EM needs prioritized e.g. new Football Brand Partner signings.
- Deliver powerful, compelling, commercial, viable range/concept selection for EM to support the overall brand strategy, purpose & direction.
- Partner with and give input to the alignment with EM Brand Activation on category MWB and allocation by key concepts.
- Responsible for BU category forecast within IBP, all channels.
- Lead all creation needs, validate SMU requests for EM to fulfill EM needs to support the SBP.
- Take responsibility for Sell-through of the category across EM, work with performance tracking dashboards and share update with Global BU.
- Drive performance and development culture through organization’s people values.
- Drive employee engagement, leading by example.
- Identify and develop high-potential talents, to fuel the team’s succession plan.
- Look for opportunities to provide cross-functional experiences to identified high-potential talents from both, in and outside of the team.
- Manage allocated category OPEX & T&E to fulfill business priorities.
Requirements for Role of Senior Director Football & Motorsport
- University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing, MBA is a plus.
- 10+ years of experience in merchandising/product, marketing, sales/retail required. Regional experience is a plus.
- Previous experience in managing a global matrix organization require.
- Sporting goods industry experience require.
- Has lived and worked in different cultures or has substantial experience working in regional teams
- Strong cross-functional and stakeholder management experience across commercial functions (e.g. marketing, sales, etc.) and support functions (finance preferred), as well as different organizational levels (Global, Market, etc.)
- Broad Marketing experience, with a distinct track record of success and expert Merchandising knowledge.
Skills And Knowledge Desired
- Ability to develop and implement strategy
- Proven leadership and management abilities especially in managing a diverse team (incl. remote management)
- Strong presentation/communication, negotiation and influencing skills, especially with senior stakeholders within a global matrix organization.
- Strong industry knowledge, across divisions—footwear, apparel and accessories—and across all Bus.
- Expert understanding of Asian markets’ consumers, accounts, economic environment and commercial needs
- Fluent in English
- Fluent in local language (if applicable).
- Willingness to travel upwards of 20% of time.
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