Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The role of the Technology Consultant is responsible for the planning, installing and for the configuration of software solutions and systems. It is capable to support employees with specific applications and provides expert advisory. The role analyses information systems of adidas and individualizes specific system solutions to meet the demand of the business.
Key Responsibilities:
Business analysis
- Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organization.
- Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations.
- Requirements definition and management
- Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
- Follows agreed standards, applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
- Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required.
- Prioritizes requirements and documents traceability to source.
- Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
- Provides input to the requirements baseline.
- Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.
Porting/software configuration
- Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platform specific versions of one or more software products.
- Documents fault, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.
- Application support
- Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures.
- Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
- Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.
- Key Skills
- Process mindset
- Problem solving aptitude.
- Handle conflictual situation positively.
- Resilient to stressful situation
- Strong data driven decision making.
- Risk awareness and judgement
- Solution architecture and integration overview
Key Relationships:
- Global IT
- Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
- HR Management
- Controlling
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Proficient spoken and written command of English
- At least 5-year experience in IT
- 2 years of experience in relevant area
- 1 year of experience in team management
- Understanding of different culture
- Participated in projects with people from other functions/markets
Below skill set are Mandatory to have
- SAP IBP or SAP APO Supply Planning Module Knowledge
- SAP IBP Configuration and Modelling
- IBP Excel Add-In Expertise
- Knowledge of SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI-DS)
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