PBI Developer Retail, EM - Adidas

Job Details:

Job Role – PBI Developer

Job Location – Dubai, United Arab Emirate

Contract Duration – 6 months contract only

Contract Type - Contract role

Job Description:

• Drive sales efficiency by accurate reporting & forecasting in Retail & Merchandising, transitioning from reporting into constructive business insights and recommendations.
• To ensure ongoing support of the Emerging Market Retail and merchandising teams according to Global and EM best practice standards for realizing profitable market share growth and smooth interaction across all clusters.
• Build and create cutting-edge analytics services to all market stakeholders, enabling them to take quantitatively based decisions.
• Act as local “center of expertise” within Retail & Merchandising for all analytics-related topics and drive the implementation of analytics tools across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a business owner of EM Retail & Merchandising analytics reporting solutions and tools in supporting the Retail teams
• Capture, prioritize, and structure EM BI demands and requirements promptly and comprehensively. Align delivery milestones for the demand portfolio
• Strong level of Data warehouse design and development, and Business intelligence frontend development. Experience with in-memory technology. Products in focus – SQL, SAP HANA, Databricks, Python, Spark, airflow, CICD pipelines, GIT, Jenkins, Power BI
• Strong Knowledge of BI (Databricks, Power BI) architecture, dashboard, and report development, with a strong focus on visual insights.
• Strong Knowledge of the application architecture, development, and deployment life cycle with strong analytical, systems, and structured analysis, and social skills, and with the ability to view issues and requirements from a business perspective.
• Basic project management knowledge and experience.
• Consult across market Retail & Merchandising teams in driving consistent language, insight generation and utilization towards business optimization and development through using analytics

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in IT, Business Administration, or related field. Master's degree preferred.
• Certification: Project management certification
• 3+ years of professional experience, with extensive experience in Analytics (e.g. Web analytics, Digital Media/Marketing analytics, SEO Analysis or Attribution Modelling)
• Proficient in MS Office, MSS. Alteryx, R or Python is an advantage.
• Cross-functional experience ideally with Customer Service/ Operations/ IT/ Sales/ Finance.
• Previous experience within an IT/service/SAAS environment is an advantage.
• Previous industry experiences including sporting goods, fashion, FMCG. Cross-functional experience ideally with marketing / sales / finance.
• Industry: sporting goods / retail / consumer goods.