At adidas, we have a clear purpose: “Through sport, we have the power to change lives.” This guiding principle shapes how we operate as a company, collaborate with partners, create products, and connect with consumers.
Purpose and Overall Relevance for the Organization
The Senior Specialist Trader supports in-season trading and allocation execution across Retail and Franchise channels, ensuring stock health, sell-through, and margin optimization. This role focuses on data analysis, inventory flow coordination, and in-season responsiveness, translating commercial plans into actionable outcomes to deliver an exceptional consumer experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute store allocation and replenishment plans, implementing strategies provided by the Manager Trader to ensure the right product, size, and quantity reach each store on time.
- Monitor daily and weekly sell-out performance and identify overstock or stock-out risks, recommending corrective actions.
- Support markdown and price implementation across channels, ensuring alignment with commercial strategy, system accuracy, and timely execution.
- Support distribution center-to-store, store-to-store, and ship-from-store transfers to optimize stock levels and product availability.
- Maintain and update trading performance dashboards by consolidating sales, inventory, and margin data.
- Analyze product and size performance, identifying top and slow movers and sharing insights to support reallocation, transfers, or markdowns.
- Support in-season trading meetings by preparing performance summaries, presentation materials, and analysis.
- Contribute quantitative and qualitative insights to post-season reviews and future buying and allocation strategies.
Key Relationships
Buying, Planning, Omnichannel, Supply Chain, Distribution Center Team, Retail Operations, Finance, and external Retail and Franchise Partners.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with the ability to interpret sales and inventory data.
- Commercial mindset focused on accuracy, speed, and execution quality.
- Detail-oriented and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Merchandising, or Supply Chain.
- Two years of experience in Retail Trading or Planning, preferably in sporting goods, fashion, or consumer goods.
- Experience in data analysis, stock management, or allocation in a retail environment.
- Proficiency in Excel and business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
- Advanced English and Spanish verbal and written communication skills.
Culture
At adidas, we foster the athlete’s mindset through courage, ownership, innovation, teamplay, integrity, and respect. We believe that embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into our culture and talent processes creates belonging and strengthens our connection with consumers.