Merchandising Manager, Footwear – Basketball

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🕒 October 9, 2025

🏢🏡 Los Angeles – Hybrid

💵 $76k - $114k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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adidas

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1924

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

⚽ Sports

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2020-04

Fashion • Retail • Sports

adidas is a globally recognized sports brand known for designing and manufacturing sports apparel, footwear, and accessories. The company focuses on sustainability, incorporating more sustainable materials and practices in their production. They emphasize diversity, equity, and inclusion within their corporate culture and engage in various social impact initiatives. Additionally, adidas provides detailed financial reporting and has a transparent corporate governance structure. They operate worldwide, employing thousands of people and maintain a strong presence in the sports and fashion industries.

📋 Description

• Plan, curate, land, and measure consumer right footwear assortments for adidas basketball, globally with a specific focus on key NAM retailers • Collaborate with key BU stakeholders to ensure we are offering the right product, at the right time, to the right segmentation, in the right volume and at the right price • Manage the entire GTM process of key Basketball FTW launches from Pre-Launch to Post-Launch, measuring and communicating key performance KPI’s • Build curated assortment plans for relevant strategic channel/account to maximize adidas Basketball footprint in the US marketplace • Facilitate and package consumer, industry and market insights to ensure a relevant product range is created to meet NAM market needs • Package and present the GTM category, range plans and consumer insights to internal teams and key strategic retailers • Filter and synthesize the analysis of the product range and sales results to maximize profitability, productivity and growth of future assortments

🎯 Requirements

• Four-year college or university degree, preferably in Business/Merchandising or related field preferred • Minimum three (3-5) years industry related experience • Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be substituted for degree • Previous merchandising experience in the sporting goods industry preferred • US marketplace experience preferred • Proficiency with MS Office Suit and working with systems/applications – proficiency with Excel desired • Strong analytical, presentation and communication skills, written and verbal • Fundamental knowledge of GTM process and key product milestones & deliverables • Strong merchandising business acumen in channel distribution, net sales, margin, profit and inventory • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Strong ability to work both independently and lead collaboration with multiple teams across the organization • A thorough understanding of customer markets and trends • Sport Category specific understanding preferred • Strong analytical and planning skills • Ability for domestic and international travel up to 10% of time

🏖️ Benefits

• robust and progressive medical, including HSA with employer funding or FSA options • dental • vision • prescription drug coverage • adoption, with surrogate and fertility support • short and long-term disability • 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 • education assistance • 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 • Service Time Off during milestone years