Senior Analyst Strategic Deployment

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Senior Analyst Strategic Deployment is a key player in the planning, execution, and maintenance of the seasonal deployment strategy for North America. This role requires cross-functional collaboration with other SCM and non-SCM departments to deliver successful inventory deployment operations across the entire NAM DC Network. The ultimate objective is to achieve our commercial targets by optimizing the deployment of inventory across the adidas DC network, minimizing costs across all channels, maximizing DC capacities, preventing inbound and storage capacity constraints, and ensuring the product reaches the correct plant. This position will require the use of a supply chain optimization software and scenario modeling to execute their responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business partners to collect inputs for new deployment strategy, fostering open communication of the context and changes surrounding the inputs
• Support in implementing seasonal article and range deployment across all DC's, taking into consideration defined and agreed deployment principles, warehouse capabilities / capacities (throughput & storage) and ranging
• Publish seasonal article and range deployment to business partners inside and outside of SCM through relevant master data, reporting, key meetings and communication
• Act as subject matter expert for Alteryx, Llamasoft Data Guru (DG) and Supply Chain Guru (SCG), and maintain current Llamasoft model(s) for NAM DC network
• Enhance Alteryx and Llamasoft models to support changes within the network and/or business requests, as needed
• Run deployment scenarios, publish and analyze outputs in Power BI, and present results to Senior Leadership with a recommendation on ideal deployment strategy
• Support Sr. Manager and Director to promote use of Llamasoft and Alteryx within adidas by sharing the tool's capabilities and opportunities with business partners inside and outside of SCM, as well as in other markets
• Analyze and publish demand plan variance and impact on deployment strategy, as needed
• Collaborate with Global Deployment in the implementation of standard processes and metrics and knowledge-sharing between markets

Key Relationships:

• Product Supply
• Inbound Management
• DC Operations
• Omni-Channel Operations
• SCM Senior Leadership
• Strategy & Development
• Fulfillment Planning
• Tactical Deployment
• Global Deployment
• Global Product Team
• Advanced Analytics

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong and proven analytical skills with attention to detail and information synthesis abilities
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusion
• Embracing innovation, challenge the status quo and drive change
• Able to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
• In depth knowledge of supply chain mechanics and flow of goods
• Operations as well as commercial mind set, end-to-end thinking
• Strong team player with proven ability to work cross functionally to achieve goals and objectives.
• Strong competence and experience in MS Office, with high emphasis on Excel required
• Experience in Power BI and Smarsheet
• Llamasoft experience preferred
• SAP advanced experience required
• Fluent in English (verbal and written)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• College or university degree, preferably with focus on Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent education experience
• 5+ years of related work experience in international and/or cross-functional teams, preferably in a Supply Chain Management function
• Experience with Network Optimization preferred

• 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 14 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, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
• 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 Portland, Oregon.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.