Asst Manager, Digital Partner Commerce (6-7 month ltd)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization :

We are looking for a temporary Assistant Manager for our Digital Partner Commerce team to join our Golf headquarters in Carlsbad, CA.

The Assistant Manager, Digital Partner Commerce will be pivotal in the continued growth and overall success with our key wholesale partner accounts.

The primary focus for this role will be to bring our digital shelf to life on our wholesale partner sites through enhanced content, ratings and reviews, paid marketing, and test and learn opportunities.

Key Focus Areas :

• Fully support and drive the channel objectives to create high quality traffic to adidas product, while accelerating revenue growth and enhancing premium presentation
• Assist in optimizing and enhancing the adidas brand and product experience across our key wholesale partner accounts
• Leverage analytics to drive business decisions including content creation, media selection, A / B testing and key performance indicator (KPI) benchmarking with a focus on optimizing the content strategy and streamlining path to purchase
• Collaborate with brand marketing, sales and merch teams to digitally push key stories through paid media and on-site enhancements

Key Responsibilities :

• Execute seasonal strategy for the marketplace business to drive top line sales and profitability to achieve targets
• Build and leverage relationships with cross-functional teams (i.e. digital planning, brand communications, merchandising, sales, finance) and business unit partners to obtain information necessary to create and execute account strategies
• Identify and develop sales, marketing and promotional opportunities at the category, concept, collection and article level to maximize sales for the SS25 season
• Analyze seasonal assortment of products, use the data to create strategy for future seasons, and recommend courses of action with cross functional teams
• Execute sales reporting and demonstrate ability to create insights from data that drive actionable business decisions
• Maximizing brand calendar moments and commercial retail events by optimizing media and negotiating with accounts for onsite placements
• Ensure execution of listing level detail and find solutions to technical challenges that arise
• Address broken and incorrect listings and work with accounts to action
• Continually challenge the status quo, think differently and push boundaries through test and learn opportunities
• Assist in managing invoices and budgets
• Ensure that all key account partners are equipped with the necessary enhanced content for product launches
• Identify new ways to integrate our .com site with key partner sites (ratings and reviews, content syndication, etc)
• Build relationships with global Digital Partner Commerce members and collaborate on new ways to push the envelope with key account partners

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• Strong understanding of the digital marketing landscape and how to best utilize emerging technologies to reach the brands’ target consumer : ecommerce, content, social, mobile, CRM, digital media
• Experience activating successful brand-level digital marketing campaigns, managing large budgets split across multiple strategies
• Strong project management skills with ability to create project plans and manage through seamless execution
• Ability to work with a cross-functional team to guide development of digital solutions
• Ability to balance direct response / performance goals with overall business goals and priorities, and you possess a strong appreciation and knowledge of Brand Marketing
• Ability to explain complex concepts to varied stakeholders by making intricate technologies understandable
• Strong leadership capability with a talent for influencing at all levels of the organization
• Excellent (written and verbal) communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to build strong relationships quickly as a result of a team-first mentality
• Strong time management, organizational and prioritization skills
• Diligence, accuracy, attention to detail and a strong work ethic
• Comprehensive understanding of digital infrastructure, tracking and reporting methods for display and digital content
• Advanced computer skills with proven Excel experience
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred
• 1-3 years hands-on performance display, content management, consumer insights, site merchandising, and ecommerce analytics preferred
• Advanced computer skills with proven Excel experience
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
• Knowledge of Syndigo tool preferred
• Knowledge of PowerBI tool preferred
• English language fluency

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at adidas means championing individual uniqueness and cultivating a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best.

We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.

adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support , short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage.

Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .

4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, eleven paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.

The anticipated low and high end of the base pay range for this position is ($75,000-80,000). Actual salary will be based on various factors, such as a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills and competencies, and proficiency for the role.

We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote. The working location of this position is Los Angeles, CA

Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English