General purpose
This role sits within the North America eCommerce Business Operations - Strategy & Programs team and serves as a critical partner to NAM Digital leadership in shaping and operationalizing the market’s strategic agenda. The Senior Manager, Strategic Business Operations leads the strategic planning cycle, market and competitive landscape insights, strategic choices and initiatives, value realization, and the department’s financial operating cadence.
This is an individual contributor role with significant leadership and cross-functional influence.
Key responsibilities
- Competitor and market landscape analysis: Lead competitive and market intelligence, including competitor benchmarking, trend analysis, opportunity identification, and leadership-ready insights.
- Manage the strategic planning cycle: Own annual planning and refresh cycles, facilitate planning workshops, and establish planning artifacts including strategy narratives, strategic choices, initiative portfolios, investment asks, and KPI trees.
- Drive strategic choices and initiatives: Structure ambiguous problem spaces, define initiative charters and outcomes, support scenario analysis and trade-off frameworks, and advise leadership on strategic narratives and decisions.
- Track value realization: Implement value realization frameworks, define KPIs, track financial and non-financial outcomes, and report on benefits realization.
- Manage business financial drumbeats: Run weekly business meetings, monthly business reviews, and leadership readouts while tracking action items and preparing executive updates.
- Leadership content creation and executive storytelling: Develop strategy presentations, business cases, executive readouts, decision materials, and reusable templates for leadership reporting.
Requirements
- 7-10+ years of experience in strategic planning, financial analysis, business operations, management consulting, or portfolio performance.
- Strong business acumen, financial analysis, business case development, ROI modeling, and investment trade-off analysis.
- Experience running strategic planning cycles and facilitating cross-functional working sessions.
- Experience in business performance management, KPI development, and benefits or value realization tracking.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; Power BI experience is a plus.
- Experience building operating rhythms across a matrixed organization and working with senior leadership.
- Experience performing competitor and marketplace analysis.
- Strong communication, storytelling, stakeholder management, prioritization, and ambiguity-management skills.
- Proficiency with MS Teams, Smartsheet, Power BI, and SharePoint is preferred.
- Ability to travel as required and fluency in written and spoken English.
Benefits and culture
adidas offers medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, disability, life insurance, 401k, stock purchase, education assistance, paid parental leave, flexible time off, paid holidays, service time off, and annual bonus opportunities. adidas is an Equal Opportunity Employer that supports diversity, inclusion, reasonable accommodations, and individual expression.