Senior Manager Business Analytics (Amsterdam, NH, NL)

<p style="margin:0.0cm"><strong><u><span style="">PURPOSE &amp; RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION</span></u></strong><strong><u><span style="">:</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"><span style="">As Senior Manager Business Analytics for Digital Sales Europe, your role is to drive how and where our teams should focus their efforts across insight generation, digital reporting, and AI-minded ways of working for each of our Partner Program, Partnership Marketing, and Gift Cards channels. Building on the existing analytics foundation, you will elevate our technical analytical capabilities, accelerate automation, and strengthen quality decision-making through robust data products and scalable insights.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"><span style="">Leveraging your own technical expertise - and the support of the Director, junior analysts, and the wider eCommerce &amp; Digital Analytics community - you will drive a wide range of digital and commercial performance levers to identify opportunities that deliver profitable net sales, accelerate sell-through, and increase market share.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"><strong><u><span style="">KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</span></u></strong><strong><u><span style="">:</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"> </p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Own and continuously improve the analytics infrastructure that provides the business teams with a single source of truth for key metrics, including progress, performance evolution, and actionable opportunities.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Apply advanced technical skillset (e.g., SQL, Databricks, Power BI, Python), spar with other senior data analysts on complex data topics, and ensure alignment of definitions, data quality, and consistency.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Support automation and scalability of KPI reporting in collaboration with Digital Sales stakeholders and Global/Market Analytics partners; maintain and enhance dashboards to ensure qualitative, consistent, and actionable outputs.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Partner with stakeholders to define goals, select the right KPIs, monitor performance, and translate trends into clear commercial opportunities across the three business pillars (Partner Program / Partnership Marketing / Gift Cards).</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Identify which metrics and projects matter most, connect the dots across channels and commercial levers, and help the business focus on the highest-impact initiatives.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Support the Director in shaping the longer-term analytics roadmap; anticipating future needs, defining scalable solutions, and ensuring the team is building toward strategic capability, not only day-to-day reporting.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Build a holistic understanding of the adidas digital landscape and our digital partnership models, enabling seamless stakeholder management across teams and supporting recommendations that optimize digital performance and support sustainable growth.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">“Wear many hats” across a broad stakeholder environment – contributing to roadmap development, representing analytics in cross-functional forums, influencing business decisions, and ensuring analytics work is prioritized against business outcomes.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">(Critical) Embed AI-minded ways of working into analytics delivery</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Ideate, build, and implement AI Agents and AI-enabled tooling</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Advance dynamic forecasting by combining statistical/ML approaches with business context</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Champion AI-led mindset across the wider Digital Sales team</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"><strong><u><span style="">KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, &amp; ABILITIES</span></u></strong><strong><u><span style="">:</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"> </p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Strong hands-on technical expertise across analytics tools; able to translate business questions into robust analytical approaches and scalable data products.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Advanced proficiency in Databricks, SQL, Power BI, and Python; additional experience with Machine Learning and Databricks Genie are nice to have</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Practical, hands-on experience with building AI Agents and AI-enabled workflows (use case discovery, prototyping, implementation, and change management) including the ability to evaluate output quality, manage risk (data privacy, bias, hallucinations), and operationalize solutions with monitoring and documentation; energized to continue promoting adoption across the wider team.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Ability and willingness to coach and upskill junior analysts - creating clarity on methods, improving code quality and documentation, and building confidence in stakeholder-facing delivery.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Ability to confidently present quantitative and qualitative analysis to management; translate complex messages into simple, compelling stories with clear actions and measurable impact.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Solution-oriented with a focus on achieving results; comfortable operating in ambiguity and prioritizing work across multiple business needs.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Strong strategic mindset: able to step back from day-to-day tasks, connect themes across domains, anticipate future needs, and shape a forward-looking analytics approach.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Excellent organizational and planning skills; flexibility to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work under pressure in a deadline-driven environment.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Advanced Excel skills and high proficiency in spreadsheet analyses.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Comfortable working in an international environment.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Fluent in English</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"><strong><u><span style="">REQUISITE EDUCATION &amp; EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS</span></u></strong><strong><u><span style="">:</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm"> </p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">University degree is preferred.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">7+ years of working experience in an international environment, preferably in Digital/eCommerce, Analytics, Data Science, or equivalent.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">5+ years of professional experience in Digital Analytics, Business Analytics or equivalent, including experience extracting actionable insights from large datasets and driving measurable business outcomes.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Demonstrated experience working with digital performance metrics and leveraging these to improve commercial performance in a digital multi-brand environment.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Strong stakeholder management experience across cross-functional teams; able to influence without direct authority and align diverse partners behind common metrics and priorities.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"><span style="">Proven experience driving change across a large-scale organization (process improvements, standardization, automation, and adoption of new tools/ways of working).</span></li> </ul>