Senior Manager Inventory EM
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Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization The Senior Manager Inventory acts as financial advisor and business partner inside the DP community, as well as towards product supply, purchasing, brand organization by providing fact-based data to enable and drive decision-making.
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Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization
The Senior Manager Inventory acts as financial advisor and business partner inside the DP community, as well as towards product supply, purchasing, brand organization by providing fact-based data to enable and drive decision-making.
He/she supports the head of DP HUB to build inventory targets, to track and monitor KPIs development and steer the business with on time and fact-based analysis.
In this role the Senior Manager Inventory provides guidance on health level of aged inventory as well as insights to connect the impact of inventory with OWC and cash.
He/she also actively participate into IBP for the inventory part on a monthly basis.
He/she covers a critical role in making sure EM inventory management is optimized and in building a governance framework for all clusters
Key Responsibilities
- Support the team in strategic planning as well as translating strategic business targets into tangible actionable plan
- Ensure financial guidelines are respected and identify critical processes & advice solutions
- Inspire new processes and reporting standards
- Enable fact-based decision-making process by creating transparency on key performance indicators (Net Sales, volume, IDL, inventory year-end…)
- Collaborate with DNA to improve reporting and analytical tools
- Interact with main business partners to optimize inventory level in the market
- Continuously looking for new solutions to improve inventory management overall
Key Relationships
- DP clusters team
- EM Brand team
- Merchandising team
- SCM
- Finance
- DNA
- Global DP team
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Comprehensive business understanding of processes around inventory management
- Challenger mindset towards Business Partners combined with customer orientation
- Ability to operate cross-functionally
- Excellent communication skills for persuasion and convincing others
- Ability to work under pressure and in a very dynamic environment
- Ability to think and act strategically
- Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
- Prior experience in inventory management is a plus
- Business fluency in English (written and spoken)
Requisite Education And Experience And Minimum Qualifications
- University degree in Business Administration/Finance/Controlling
- Comprehensive understanding of system landscape (IBP, SAP, Power BI, Microstrategy, M-3 & master data systems)
- 8+ years working experience in Finance department/SCM
- adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace.
- We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees.
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
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