Buying Specialist

Title: Buying Specialist

Location: Portland, OR, US

Workplace: Full time

Department: Merchandising & Planning

Job Description:

PURPOSE:

To play a supportive role in achieving divisional sales and profitability goals with a focus on Concept Stores.  This role assists Buying with in-season product management, merchandising strategy, and the coordination and execution of day-to-day operations and administrative duties to ensure deadlines can be met.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Support the seasonal strategy for area of responsibility and help to create best in class channel relevant buys specific to our consumer and on trend that drive top line sales and profitability to achieve targets
• Conduct weekly analysis of the current business and make recommendations based on the analysis
• Deliver accurate reporting and sales recaps as needed (ad hoc, daily, weekly, monthly, etc.)
• Identify and support with promotional opportunities at the category, concept, collection and article level to maximize sales for both pre-season and in season
• Validate essential demand planning information such as size curves and channel forecasts

KEY RELATIONSHIPS: 

• Local Business Unit teams
• Allocation, Planning, and Merchandise Planning
• Local retail teams
• Retail Operations
• Demand Planning
• Visual Excellence and Visual Merchandise

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• General understanding of channel operations and retail calendar
• Experience with MS Office Suit and familiarity with merchandising systems/applications. Excel skills required.
• Ability to communicate effectively with different levels of the business via phone, written and in-person communication
• Ability to synthesize data, identify trends and recommend viable solutions
• Strong analytical skills, familiarity with Retail KPI’s, and understanding of retail math
• Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to build successful relationships within a team and cross-functionally

REQUISITE EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

• 1- 2 years typical relevant work experience
• Experience with Retail and/or Merchandising preferred
• Ability to alternate between sitting and standing for extended periods of time

PLEASE NOTE: 

• adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• 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 12 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.
• At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday. The working location of this position is Portland, Oregon.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.