adidas Group is looking for an Assistant Manager Sports Marketing - Tennis to authentically advance our brand presence within the Tennis category. Your core mission is to drive sports credibility by ensuring athletes receive the best product and service.
What You'll Do
- Provide premium and personalized servicing to our global portfolio of athletes and ambassadors.
- Develop and maintain partner relations; consistently communicating with agents, athletes and brand partners.
- Provide all necessary support to Specialist Sports to ensure Sports Marketing presence and servicing is maximized.
- Support the Global Sports Marketing Tennis team in maximizing our contractual rights packages and contribution towards achieving commercial targets.
- Work with Sports Marketing lead and SpSp BU to define products and collections promoted by the athletes.
- Support product planning, forecasting, tracking, product ordering and inventory management to ensure on-time/in-full delivery of products to our athletes.
- Support with key event planning/execution capture and document processes and contacts, KPI’s results, and post-event key learnings/implementation for future events.
- Coordinate the overall kit/product approval process with the Partners and product marketing teams according to Governing Body/Federation/Competition requirements.
- Maintain internal systems for contracts and servicing.
- Be a contact point for partners regarding related issues for all service- and interlinked departments in cooperation with the Global Sports Marketing team.
- Provide support in Data Management for Specialist Sports partners, including tracking, documenting and presenting Global/Local Specialist Sports portfolio KPI’s evolution/tracking, tracking bonuses, etc.
- Support in coordination of athlete visits to the World of Sport.
- Collaborate and proactively manage communications and processes with Global/Local Sports Marketing community on relevant Sports Marketing initiatives.
- Provide overall support to Global Sports Marketing team for Specialist Sports on misc. projects where needed.
What We're Looking For
- University degree preferably in Marketing & Business Administration or Sport Management.
- 2+ years work experience.
- Knowledge of the respective Sports Marketing categories and active interest in the respective Sports.
- Highly motivated and focused with a passion to support as well as drive projects internally and externally.
- Well organized with a good understanding of the Tennis sports category and strong affiliation for sport.
- Problem-solver attitude.
- Agile mindset working across multiple time zones.
- Curious and proactive approach.
- Very good interpersonal/team skills, cross-cultural mindset.
- Good project management skills.
- Fluent in English, spoken and written.
- Ability to independently prioritize and manage workload; works well under remote management.
- IT skills in Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SAP.
Nice to Have
- Another language(s) is advantageous.
Team & Environment
This role is part of the Global Sports Marketing team for Specialist Sports.
adidas is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all ages, genders (incl. gender identity), ethnic and social backgrounds, nationalities, sexual orientations, religions and beliefs, and those with apparent or non-apparent disabilities. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
