Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization :
Help build and execute the Account Marketing and Activation Plans for a specific Alliance Key Account that delivers significant business growth and improvement in our Brand KPIs. Working in close co-operation with the Alliance Key Account Sales Team with the overall ambition to drive the business and adidas brand positioning at the respective account.
Key Responsibilities :
- Help define an aligned seasonal marketing calendar incorporating all relevant aspects of product, retail and brand activity
- Execute with excellence the seasonal ‘ Account Marketing Calendar’ to ensure that adidas wins at the point of purchase by category, in key doors against the agreed KPI’s
- Deliver and execute the AKA activation strategy and roadmap
- In each fascia and through all channels help develop and execute consumer activation activity against targeted categories / concepts across all channels and platforms
- Secure the highest share of space, within key destination doors and locations
- Secure sell through and consumer engagement with share growth ensuring all commercial and strategic goals are met
- Measure the effectiveness of the account activation plans’ ensuring execution with excellence visually and via sell-out
- Manage the seasonal activation calendar process from virtual download to instore implementation including all account interaction meetings ensuring smooth process.
- Understand product, customer and consumer needs from the European markets and all channels
- Where appropriate, support SMU and franchise creation / development
- Represent the brand activation point of view both internally and externally
- Responsible and accountable for the execution and implementation process for toolkits needed, from briefing customer requirements to instore deployment (excluding creation)
- Closely co-operate with Global and Europe Brand teams to secure a best practice level of implementation of global / EU strategy
- Conduct relevant reporting activities to measure the efficiency and commercial success
- Manage budgets and costs within agreed measures
- Understand the European consumer retail environment including distribution points, share of buy, competitor concepts and support tools
- Accountable and responsible for the visibility to all markets of AKA brand activation to relevant country and global teams through process management and communication process
Key Relationships :
- Merchandising / category teams
- AKA sales teams
- Global Brands : Category Teams, Business Units
- European Functions : Brand Comms, AKA, Finance / Demand Planning, Business Development, local Brand Activation colleagues.
- Retail, Wholesale and eCommerce
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :
- High professional maturity
- Highly collaborative with strong communication skills
- High influencing skills and ability to make fact-based decisions
- Strong analytical skills
- Structured, organized and process orientated
- Previous experience in Category Management or Merchandising / Ranging / SMU / Sales
- Strong business acumen, ability to assume a broader perspective (cross-markets / global)
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment and under pressure
- Intermediate to advanced skills in MS Office
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications :
- University degree in business preferred, ideally with marketing and sales focus or equivalent professional experience
- Category Management / Ranging / Merchandising Experience or account marketing / sales : 3 years