You assist with category management and range selection, providing essential data and support for product launches while analyzing the European retail landscape to guide pricing and strategy.
Anforderungen
- •High professional maturity
- •Strong communication skills
- •Strong analytical skills
- •Attention to detail
- •Structured and organized mindset
- •Process-oriented approach
- •Marketing knowledge in sport and lifestyle
- •Knowledge of adidas systems in merchandising
- •Strong business acumen
- •Ability to work in a team
- •Works well under pressure
- •Strong organizational skills
- •Engaging presentation style
- •Intermediate to advanced MS Office skills
- •Fluent in English
- •Additional language preferred
- •University degree in business preferred
- •Merchandising and marketing experience
- •Experience in European market preferred
Deine Aufgaben
- •Support range selection processes to meet KPIs.
- •Assist with all aspects of Category Management.
- •Provide data for pricing and margin decisions.
- •Deliver tech and marketing support materials.
- •Coordinate AW and SS handover meetings.
- •Manage commercial input for global processes.
- •Track key concept sales across Europe.
- •Analyze European retail environment and trends.
- •Support product launches and effective sell-in.
Original Beschreibung
# Assistant Manager Category Sportswear Apparel - Europe - temp until 31.03.2026 (m/f/d)
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
To support and aid the category management team for Europe with immediate SS and future AW range build, set up and maintenance tasks.
Assist with the creation of materials for cluster use, system and process updates, consolidation of market feedback and preparation of Europe GTM meetings and Milestones
Attending relevant global, cluster and channel meetings in support to Europe Category Management team to capture, consolidate and organize information.
Key Responsibilities:
• Support in the wider range selection and alignment process within the parameters set by the Europe CTC Range Architecture team to meet the KPI’s
• Support in all aspects of Category Management including segmentation to meet all KPIs incl. efficiency, productivity, overlap, top line, margin
• Assist in the delivery of relevant data for ranging, pricing and margin decisions
• Delivery to clusters relevant tech and marketing support materials for SS and AW
• Coordination and preparation support of AW and SS handover and kick-off meeting deliverables
• Coordination for Commercial Input into Global, and creating and embedding a process with the channels to ensure their input is consolidated
• Manage key concept sales trackers across Europe
• Understand the European consumer retail environment including distribution points, share of buy, competitor ranges and pricing strategies and act upon
• Support major product launches and presentations providing necessary support to ensure an effective sell-in launch process
Key Relationships:
• Global BU
• Europe Director Category
• Europe BU Senior Director
• Europe BU Brand Communication
• Europe Sales
• Europe Demand Planning
• Europe Cluster and Channel Category Management teams
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• High professional maturity
• Highly collaborative with strong communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Structured, organized and process-orientated
• Marketing knowledge and market experience in sport and/or fashion/lifestyle categories.
• Knowledge of adidas systems and process specifically in merchandising/Category Management
• Strong business acumen, ability to assume a broader perspective (cross-markets/global)
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment and under pressure
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong engaging presentation style
• Intermediate to advanced skills in MS Office
• Fluent in English
• Additional language is an advantage
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
• University degree in business preferred, ideally with marketing and sales focus or equivalent professional experience
• Merchandising/ cross-functional marketing and/or sales experience
• Experience in a European market is preferred
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# Job Title: Assistant Manager Category Sportswear Apparel - Europe - temp until 31.03.2026 (m/f/d)
Brand:
Location:
Herzogenaurach
TEAM:
Merchandising & Planning
State:
BY
Country/Region:
DE
Contract Type:
Full time
Number:
520181
Date:
May 10, 2025