Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization :
To drive adidas Golf Sales in the Malaysia to ensure market leadership, target achievement, and Brand Objectives in the areas.
Key Responsibilities :
- Planning
- Develops effective business strategies to reach defined business goals on Malaysia NetSales and full country P&L’s
- To develop Mainstream & Moonshot 2.0 (5 years Strategic Business Plan) to provide right company’s goals and key strategies
- Develops a geographic, account and retail development plan that reflects sales strategies and provides analysis based on defined KPIs
- Develops new channels of Distribution and new customers to maximize growth
- Develops a sales / retail marketing and operations coordinated plan to achieve the best POS productivity and consumer satisfaction
- Detailed Quarterly and Annual Sales plan per account
- Provides the monthly rolling sales forecast and POS opening / upgrade / closure regional plan base
- Ensures demand plan and inventory is aligned with sales plan for optimum inventory turns
- Management
- Direct Management of entire Malaysia for golf.
- Manages customer / geography / channel development and sales / retail activities in assigned areas in accordance with defined business plans
- Takes responsibility for managing sales and retail execution and securing high quality implementation in the areas
- Develops strong business relationships with the senior management of major accounts in the areas
- Coordinates the retail trade marketing and visual merchandising implementation plans
- Coordinates the retail operations support to his / her regional accounts
- Provides proper guidance to the team in daily job
- Makes sure all company business processes and policies can be well conducted across the team of branch offices
- Distribution Plans in Malaysia
To work closely with local Sports SLT to set the right distribution channel for Golf.
Deliver business results that meet the company financial goals and build the brand closely with all channels to achieve top Apparel and Footwear brand in related countries.To manage and monitor regional sales processes that lead to a satisfactory development of the best channel distribution network in the distribution countryFinancialBe responsible for overall sales and retail performance in the areas, including full P&L responsibility for MalaysiaSales Margin targets for all categoriesManages A / R on healthy trackWell control T&E budgetEnsures the accuracy of all financial information required by the companySystem and ProcessesDevelops and manages key business processes of assigned region (selling processes, POS opening / closure / upgrade, forecasting and financial information process)Develops proper platform to be able to collect the market intelligence in time, such as overall market trend, competitive environment and account information required for the retail databaseHR ManagementSets performance plans and reviews with all direct reportsIdentifies the right people in the right position by fairly evaluating the capability of the existing teamProvides supervision, leadership, coaching and feedback to the direct reports, insisting on integrity and opennessGenerates a high level of teamwork spirit across the teamTraining and DevelopmentHelps sales manager to provide proper training courses internally and externally by identifying the training needsMakes sure all team members are able to well understand their job roles and responsibilities and provides proper guidance to secure the quality implementation in daily jobThe responsibilities are not limited to the above, the job holder will also follow other work assigned by his / her immediate supervisor
Key interfaces
Regional Functional Teams (Product, Marketing, Finance, Operations, etc); adidas sales, retail, and shared services in Malaysia, Golf Media, Local Golf VIP’s and Influencers, other Commercial Managers.
Full P&L PAC Cluster. Inventory Turnover. A / R Management.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities :
Strategic Planning and overall management skillProcess oriented, yet flexible. Capable of implementing company firmly with staff and clients and of maintaining focus on resultStrong leadership, persuasiveness and people management skillTolerance to stress, high energy and strong job ownershipHigh degree of integrity and loyaltyGood at team work, demonstrating interest in training, coaching and motivating subordinatesBusiness acumenRequisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications :
Minimum 10 years of experience in sales management for a leading consumer goods companiesExtensive experience in general management (beyond field sales) requiredBachelor degree required and advanced degree in business or related fields preferredProficient English requiredThe job description is part of every adidas employee’s contract. However, this is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change.