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Salary This is the first step in your adidas journey. For more than 70 years we've been creating the best sports gear and inspiring millions of people to change their lives through sport. Our core value is people. adidas is a team of rebellious optimists. We lead an active lifestyle, creating innovations to balance sports and nature, looking at the world without borders or prejudice, and inspiring change in our customers. Retail stores are the first point of contact with our consumers and the heart of adidas brand. Want to be a part of the journey? Join us now!
WE OFFER
- Competitive compensation & rewards (bonuses, referral program, etc.).
- Uniform allowance
- Discount on adidas products online and in all own stores.
- Access to online learning platforms to further your skills
- Employee Assitance program – We care about your well-being!
- Discounted retail/ insurance vouchers
- Opportunities to participate in sponsored adidas events
- Chances to win football tickets for you and a friend
EMPLOYEES APPRECIATE IN US
- Supportive team that accompanies you all the way in the company and inspires you to win new challenges.
- Career without borders: the opportunity to grow in retail, office, and distribution center.
- Development opportunities: world-class training in our products, service, processes, and personal effectiveness programs.
- Modern environment with the highest retail standards and best technologies.
- Embracing a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Innovations to establish a new era of sport in balance with nature.
WE APPRECIATE IN OUR EMPLOYEES
- Consumer-first mindset.
- Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong people management skills, role-modeling.
- Multiplier who amplifies and empowers team and colleagues and have an impact on them, helping skill up others.
- Strong ability to collaborate and influence across different levels and departments, internally and externally.
- Strong ability to understand and use financial data to make decisions and influence outcomes.
- Ability to make recommendations that effectively resolve challenging situation considering consistency with standards, practices, policies, and procedures.
- Comfortable with working in a matrix organization, dynamic retail environment.
- Performance / results driven attitude, open to change and act as advocate for the ‘new’, creative and collaborative mindset.
- Well organized, agile and flexible in combining work & travel duties.
- Passion for adidas brand/company brands, passion for sport.
- Proficient with MS applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and other computer software (Internet, POS Systems, etc)
- University Degree in Business (ideally in management or marketing or sales).
- Retail experience, retail expert with demonstrated business management skills and P&L ownership, or comparable business operations experience.
- Min 3 years team management and leadership experience.
- Min 8 years of relevant work experience, e.g. in a retail / in-store related role.
- Experience in working with digital tools and online systems, remotely.
- English fluent (speaking, reading, writing) and fluency in another language is highly desirable.
YOUR ACTIVITIES
Delivering District and Store Targets / Goals:
- Senior District Manager Retail is targeted with financial and retail targets for assigned area and stores, with focus on NS and Profit, along with strong focus on cost management, particularly personnel expenses.
- Senior District Manager Retail is responsible and accountable to deliver targets in defined time with team of Retail Store Managers (RSM)
- Supervises management of resources within the assigned area and stores to provide consumers with a leading shopping experience and driving positive store experience NPS results.
- Senior District Manager Retail is responsible to implement and operates area and stores within established policies, procedures, initiatives and directives.
Sales and Business:
- Lead and coach Retail Store Managers team to deliver defined goals while supervising management of costs and expenses to deliver profitability targets.
- Understand and drive different store concepts and thier strategic importance within intergrated marketplace. Lead actions defined within strategy of integrated market place linked to stores and other adidas/brands consumer touchpoints within marketplace and store locations (online, omnichannel, trade zone, key city, communities etc.)
- Provide regular input to Senior Director Retail Operations and collaborate with different back office retail & franchise functions (Retail Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Merchandising & Allocations, Supply Chain, Profit Protection, Business Solutions/IT, Human Resources, Store Development, Retail Facility Management) to achieve sales & brand ambition.
- Drive consumer centricity via experience NPS process and improvements to reach excellent NPS score in the stores and consumer satisfaction.
- Lead implementation of omnichannel consumer journey experience along with designated omnichannel tools towards high quality omnichannel retail experience in stores together with setting standards and accountability to Retail Store Managers.
- Drive improvements of omnichannel processes and usage of relevant tools (Ship from Store, Endless aisle, Click&Collect) and innovations for stores and teams.
- Actively provide feedback to retail back-office functions and stakeholders within assigned projects to be regular ‘voice of consumer’ for creating and improving retail operations and retail channel.
- Know how to set priorities in a high-pressure environment with tight deadlines and show the necessary resilience.
Operations and Process:
- Supervise consistent implementation of retail operations standards, brand & visual merchandising standards, audit, health & safety, internal control and loss prevention policies and procedures in compliance with Global and Europe retail operations policy and procedure foundation (SOM, House of Retail, House of Franchise) in stores of the area.
- Lead Retail Store Managers and store teams accordingly about consistent implementation and usage of all applications, programs, tools, projects in store to drive performance and continuous improvements, still with focus on consumer-facing activities and having consumer-first mindset.
- Control processes and allocation of sources for back of house (BoH) and in front of house (FoH, shopfloor) activities, review with Retail Store Managers regularly allocation of sources and store teams set-up accordingly to ensure stores and teams are focused on relevant activities towards consumers.
- Supervise management and allocation of sources in stores efficiently to maximize key commercial moments, events, product launches.
- Enhance collaboration of retail & franchise back office functions to ensure consistent execution and implementation of brand and retail operations standards in the stores and allocation of resources, activities and processes to deliver an exceptional consumer experience in omnichannel retail.
- Manage and coordinate assigned projects for stores in the area on retail operations (opening, relocation, closure, remodel) in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders and functions involved.
- Manage, collaborate and actively participate in assigned projects from cluster, Retail Europe or other functions (e.g. Key City) if assigned or required.
- Actively participate on shopfloor and consumer-facing activities, ideally one peak day/month (e.g. Saturday) and during strong commercial periods/moments at least for ½ day.
- Manage multiple responsibilities at same time, whilst remaining focused on the consumer.
Teamwork and Leadership:
- Lead team of Retail Store Managers in area to build and role model collaborative environment by the establishment of clear shared goals, involving others in the decision-making process and building productive relationships.
- Leverage available tools to manage performance of Retail Store Managers (Mybest People Management tool) accordingly, succession, recruiting, hiring and development & talent management activities, resulting in high employee engagement enabling a learn and grow culture.
- Develop Retail Store Managers and store teams, make them grow in consumer centric way, role-model hero retail behaviours and identify space for improvements and strive for continuous improvement.
- Supervise implementation of retail trainings and training plans in stores in all designated areas, including business, operations, sales/customer service, visual merchandising, while also coordinating with back office and supportive functions that all stores are trained in respective areas using efficient tools.
- Lead and coach Retail Store Managers on understanding the adidas values and behaviors
#WePowerPossible
AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.
COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company’s standards.
RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.
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.
JOB TITLE:
SENIOR DISTRICT MANAGER RETAIL - NORTH
BRAND:
adidas
LOCATION:
Manchester
TEAM:
Retail (Back Office)
STATE:
MAN
COUNTRY/REGION:
GB
CONTRACT TYPE:
Full time
NUMBER:
505983
DATE:
Jan 19, 2024
