Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
This is a key GBS Porto leadership management position for adidas. Along with his/her team, main responsibilities comprise driving across-category Tactical Procurement activity for Europe and/or North America and/or Latin America regions.
Our adidas leader will be mainly responsible for the development of purchasing competences as well as for management of key stake holders and supplier relationships. He/she will systematically drive continuous improvement initiatives for tools, people and processes. Among other, this strategic player will be responsible for delivering top customer satisfaction by dependably providing savings, compliance, client support and insightful analyses of reports across procurement categories (e.g. Marketing, IT, Professional Services, Facilities). Scope comprises partnering with multinational stakeholders in different time zones as well as guiding a +10 team of experienced, diverse /multinational buyers located in our Porto (Maia) offices in Portugal.
Key Responsibilities:
- Consistently provide hands-on coaching, training, motivation and guidance to his/her team
- Proactively drive productive relationships with global business partners, users and stakeholders
- Support the E2E process improvement and manage day to day tactical buying operations
- Ensure accurate and timely regular reporting (monthly, quarterly and annual)
- Supervise operations and delivering of SLA’s and KPI’s
- Guarantee full process and policies compliance and improvement across the business
- Actively propose and implement initiatives to achieve world class performance and productivity
- Full driving of e-commerce, e-auctions and automation initiatives
- When managing special projects and day-to day performance, he/she will guarantee:
- Process documentation and work instructions are in place
- Ensure proactive cooperation with local teams
- Operational excellence
Proven knowledge, Skills and Abilities on:
- Leadership, initiative and results orientation
- Five years on strategical and/or Tactical purchases, preferably in GBS environments
- Experience on team management
- Interpersonal skills and English oral/written communication
- Enthusiastic and self-motivated team player
- International/global mind-set
- Strong customer orientation
- Deep knowledge of process, internal controls and continuous improvement methodologies
- Experience with ERPs, ideally with SAP / Ariba and ticketing solutions
- Microsoft Office or equivalent tools
- Six sigma qualifications are a plus
- Other languages are a plus
Education and Experience minimum qualifications:
- University degree in Business Administration, Engineering or similar
- 3+ years of team management experience
adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an equal opportunity employer.