Assistant Manager Business Planning

Adidas

Adidas

Shanghai, China

Posted on Mar 19, 2026

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

  • This role supports the Senior Manager of Business Planning in driving OTB planning, trade investment management, and rebate scheme execution. Key responsibilities include maintaining accurate OTB and rebate-related data foundations, providing essential financial and commercial inputs, and coordinating required processes to ensure timely and effective decision-making. Through structured analysis and cross-functional collaboration, the role helps enable disciplined investment governance and account-level commercial planning.

Key Responsibilities:

OTB Planning & Tracking:

  • Consolidate OTB targets at the account level, ensure alignment with group figures, and support the completion of the formal signoff process.
  • Track Net OTB across all customers—including onhand, cancellations, projections, and varianceswhile coordinating OC guidance, maintaining the OTB summary database, and generating clear tracking summaries.
  • Prepare required analyses and materials for buying meetings, ensuring decisions are supported with accurate and uptodate OTB data.

Rebate Scheme Management:

  • Prepare materials for normal rebate schemes, highlight key changes and impacts, communicate with relevant stakeholders, and coordinate the full internal signoff process.
  • Conduct evaluations for special rebate components—including Trade Term Compensation, Uniform, Kicker, EPI, and others—to ensure alignment with commercial and financial requirements.
  • Support accurate documentation and cross-functional alignment to ensure all rebate schemes are reviewed, approved, and implemented according to internal guidelines.

Trade Investment Management:

  • Support the development and maintenance of a structured trade investment framework to guide the planning and governance of commercial spending.
  • Provide accountlevel analysis on trade investment performance to ensure alignment with commercial objectives and financial guidelines.

Key Relationships:

  • FRS Buying Planning
  • Demand Planning
  • Sales Operations
  • FRS/WHS Product Sales
  • FRS/WHS Account Sales
  • Tech
  • Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Strong analytical and planning skills with attention to detail
  • High energy, resilience, and ownership mindset
  • Quick learner with adaptability to new tools and processes
  • Effective communicator and collaboration team player
  • Solid understanding of wholesale financial metrics and the sporting goods industry