Senior Manager, Retail Analytics
 Adidas | |
 United States, Oregon, Portland | |
 Jun 06, 2025 | |
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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: The Senior Manager, Retail Analytics and Data Solutions will be responsible for aligning data and reporting across all of Retail. This individual will deliver information to stakeholders to enable fact-based decision making, while providing insights into the business. Data will need to be simplified, accurate and streamlined for all users. Key Responsibilities: 1. Analytics * Collaborate with Retail leadership and partners to engineer & deliver complex data solutions. * Development of best practices for data foundation capabilities and Retail projects including Data Science. Potential focus areas are: o Retail Business Performance analytics o Retail Operational Analytics o Retail Experience Analytics o Retail Marketing Analytics * Proactively contribute Retail data foundation requirements on a plan to achieve that vision. 2. Consulting * Support analytics partners with project management and act as bridge, or single point of contact to global data science solutions * Provide stakeholders with actionable recommendations and calls for action based on your gathered insights. Translate gathered insights into engaging, actionable and easy to digest insights presentations. * Maintain a strong stakeholder network with high level of trust that facilitates action-ability of insights. * Drive the implementation and use of data driven decision processes, in line with a fact-based decision culture. * Direct training or provision of training to analytics community members on use of data sources, data processing techniques, pipeline development, and reporting / analysis best practices. 3. Reporting * Co-initiate and help implement new reporting structures or refine existing structures within your area of responsibility in alignment with Global and NAM Retail Analytics Frameworks and Data Governance. * Help distill best practice guidance to other markets and other adidas stakeholders to maximize the use of analytics capabilities. 4. Innovation * Build a strong internal and external network, informing the adidas Retail Analytics community on the latest trends and technological advances. People Leader Responsibilities 1. People Management * Create a supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained, and provided with career opportunities through development. * Continuously monitor and evaluate team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of data and team feedback and make appropriate changes in order to meet business needs. * Provide team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and market objectives Key Relationships: * Financial Planning and Analytics * Merchandise Buying, Planning and Allocation * Finance * Store teams (Senior Director of Stores, Regional Directors, District Managers) * Store Operations * Retail Training * Global Sales & Retail Operations teams * Other Data and Analytics teams within the organization Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * A passion for delivering data-based recommendations for quantifiable improvements in business results and consumer satisfaction. * Very good communication skills, comfortable presenting complex topics to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in-person and remotely * Very good presentation skills and storytelling * People management skills are required * Extensive experience with BI, Financial, Merchandising processes, tools and KPIs * Extensive project management skills, including the ability to lead projects or work on several projects simultaneously * Extensive experience with analytics tools and awareness of disciplines * Extensive experience with visualization techniques * Fluent English both verbally and written Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: * University degree in the field of Business or equivalent * 8+ years of experience in Digital Analytics or Data Science * Extensive experience in BI or Data Engineering environment * Experience in leading and scaling a team is a plus * Experience in Retail environment highly preferred | |