Manager Omnichannel Marketing (Running & Football) Planning Concept & Commercial EMC
Area: Emerging Markets
Department: Marketing
Direct Reporting Line: Senior Manager Omni Planning
Subsidiary/country: EMC
Location: Egypt
GSMS Grade: M4
Number of Personnel Managed: 2
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
To ensure positive management, planning and delivery of adidas’ Brand image across all Omni-Channel DTC touchpoints. The role will be responsible for managing planning across Running, Football & commercial campaigns, to support sustainable and profitable market share growth through Omni Channel planning in EMC. The planning must create a balance of brand and category message against channel specific requirements to ensure a consistent delivery & is a profit driver. Ensure optimum brand presence and drive sell-out at POS through planning flawless consumer-relevant marketing campaigns, promotions, in-store communication & Visual Merchandising that can be used across the full cluster.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy & Priorities:
Manage the development of the Omni channel planning team strategy for campaigns and commercial moments to achieve defined business objectives across all consumer touch points (campaigns, promotions, consumer marketing materials, ISC & VM)
Cascade the Omni Marketing roll-out plans across the cluster by prioritizing key doors in Trade Zones, Key cities with a keen focus on the Global Brand Calendar
Align with Execution and Channel budget planning to ensure a Brand led proposition across priority doors
Manage alignment across planning with the Brand Comms team and Digital to ensure ‘one brand’ message
Seasonal Omni-Channel Marketing Calendar Planning:
Accountable for the planning of the yearly Omni-Channel Marketing calendar across Sports Performance. This calendar includes campaigns, store openings, fit outs/ remodels, traffic drivers and other activations.
Development of the calendar will be in co-ordination with the Omni Channel Execution & Activation lead based on order book, channel alignment and market activity.
Deliver a clear hierarchy of planning for Sports Performance Omni-Channel Marketing campaigns, promotions and in-store communication tools based on channel requirement and brand calendar focus.
Lead on all communication with global agencies such as Oliver for artwork creation and adaptation
Lead on activation agency briefings as required by the overall cluster
Continually assess the calendar based on order book changes and adapt with the Snr Manger for planning, the execution and channel teams & re prioritize as required based on brand calendar
Work with the Execution team to ensure that planning is in line MWB/SWB forecasting
Training & Reporting:
Deliver and improve the development of planning processes to increase efficiencies for the team & business
Share best practice ways of working & alignment across EM cluster teams
Ensure all sign-off and report decks are created and completed by working with the integrated team
Accountable for the Brand Planning tool being updated & containing right decks links & information for the BD & SBD visibility & understanding
Team Management:
Develop Factory Outlets Management in collaboration with the P1 responsible, to achieve consistency & delivering with Excellence
Control and monitor performance and result of both Performance & Commercial deliverables, in addition to Factory Outlet Concepts
Promote a high-performance culture by setting clear expectations and individual goals
Ensure the company values and mindset are demonstrated and fully embraced by the team
Develop the team & build succession plans in
Key Relationships:
EMC Omni Planning & Execution Team
HUB Omni channel team
CTC, Brand Comms, Digital & MOPS
DTC Retail Operations team
Market Omni-Channel agencies and vendors
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Manager with advanced marketing and sales knowledge/experience across sport and fashion/lifestyle
Strong Leadership ability proven track record of Project Management
Extensive experience in team management & negotiation skills
Retail & Channel expertise
Visual merchandising experience
Solution oriented personality who understands to balance brand equity/ building a brand and commercial relevance/interest of channels
Proven track record in trade marketing, brand marketing, account management
Excellent presentation skills
IT skills: Outlook, Excel and Word: Basic; PowerPoint: advanced
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
University degree in Business with Marketing focus as an advantage and/or a minimum of 3-5 years successful track record in leading Marketing and/or Trade Marketing position
Experience in consumer and/or sporting goods industries is preferred
Fluent in English
Fluent in Arabic an advantage