What are the responsibilities and job description for the Omni Inventory Planning Analyst position at adidas?
Purpose
Support implementing strategic and tactical initiatives to bring transparent financial visibility to inventory across all commercial channels. Lead creation of reporting and analytics to help support all Omni Inventory functions (Operations, Planning, & Inventory Management). In partnership with leadership, build proper process & strategies to review new and or challenging operational/financial opportunities for the market.
Key Accountabilities
Support implementing strategic and tactical initiatives to bring transparent financial visibility to inventory across all commercial channels. Lead creation of reporting and analytics to help support all Omni Inventory functions (Operations, Planning, & Inventory Management). In partnership with leadership, build proper process & strategies to review new and or challenging operational/financial opportunities for the market.
Key Accountabilities
- Work with various business partners to analyze, review and recommend actions as it relates to inventory across the NAM network.
- Drive improvements in reporting/analytics and up/down stream excess processes, sales, and operations.
- Monitor and maintain Omni Inventory Reporting on a weekly basis.
- Provide recommendations and strategize new reporting to support the greater team.
- Provide clear messaging and ensure understanding with business partners and leaders on our management processes and efforts.
- Create cohesive reports and accurate data analysis to assist in overall business decisions.
- Support business partners and leadership team with data reporting and analysis needs.
- Collect and compile information from various departments for use in inventory forecasting.
- Provide recommendations and strategize new reporting to support the greater team.
- Collaborate cross functionally, leveraging a market level view to define insights and actions for demand planning partners.
- Ability to access data from a variety of database structures and put together comprehensive reporting for the team
- High level understanding of the end-to-end financial inventory planning process
- Advanced user within MS Office Suite including Data Bricks, Access, Power Bi, SAP & SQL
- Advanced Excel skills, and a thorough understanding of macros, pivot tables, lookup formulas, formatting, etc.
- Excellent planning and organization skills, resulting in the ability to meet critical deadlines
- Able to make quick decisions off limited information
- Strong communication and presentation skills, written and verbal
- Detail-oriented and able to multi-task to complete objectives on a tight timeline
- University degree in Finance, Economics or Business or equivalent working experience
- Inventory management, Planning, Sales or Supply Chain experience is a plus
- Advanced Excel skills required
- Strong understanding of Data Bricks
- Familiarity with relevant industry systems/analytical software a plus
- 2 years Industry-specific experience preferred