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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:
"The Global Non-Trade Procurement team is creating value for adidas by delivering opportunities beyond sustainable negotiation success. As a strategic business partner, we provide market insights and trends to our global stakeholders. Stakeholder Management, Sourcing Management, Category Management and Supplier Management can be considered as our main areas of activity.
This position is located in Herzogenaurach, DE responsible for supporting the implementation of procurement best practices within respective categories, including (below mentioned focus areas which are not exhaustive):
- Execution of procurement activities for respective categories in alignment with the line manager and relevant business partners.
- Support the implementation of category strategies for the responsible categories.
- Deliver towards the committed annual Non-Trade Procurement ambitions (e.g., negotiation success)
Key Responsibilities:
Stakeholder Management (if applicable)
- Act as the Single Point of Contact (e.g., escalations) for a dedicated adidas business area in context of all Non-Trade Procurement related topics
- Actively partner up with appointed stakeholders to effectively build business relationships enabling them to achieve their business targets
- Manage demand intake within NTP and provide regular status updates to your stakeholder
- Understand business needs and address solutions
- Manage business expectations in line with Category strategies and policies
- Build up project pipelines to achieve negotiation success ambitions
Sourcing Management
- Lead and/or execute small to medium sized sourcing projects and/or support large sized sourcing projects (e.g. (e-)RfX, Single Source, risk assessment, supplier base assessment, internal and external analysis) in alignment with the Category Strategy
- Engage with respective stakeholders and suppliers in context of the sourcing event
- Perform contract administration activities (local/global) and manage contract compliance
- Negotiate small to medium sized contracts up to final authorization
- Participate in regular Category strategy upskilling sessions
Category Management (if applicable)
- Drive and lead the development of global strategies (small to medium sized categories) to address business needs incl. risk and supplier base assessment)
- Market Trends: Perform a comprehensive market research to understand the current and potential future market trends and new innovations related to service scope of the category
- Internal Requirements: Follow-up with Business Stakeholder Managers on a global level to obtain current and future needs of their stakeholders to consider in their category strategy development
- Organize, prepare and conduct category council meetings on a regular basis including upskilling of Sourcing Managers
- Add, update and maintain all category relevant information (e.g., Supplier Rostering) in the Non-Trade Procurement Database
- Benchmark category practices to identify initiatives for improvement and drive innovative approaches
- Define P2P and buying channel strategies, identify and consider automation potential
- Act as an advisor/escalation point for category ((small to medium sized) related issues towards Sourcing colleagues and drive resolution in line with global Procurement policies
- Consolidate and communicate category’s achievements (financial or other)
Supplier Management (if applicable)
- Support the set-up of cross-functional review meetings with key suppliers in order to improve performance and further cost / demand reductions
- Support with the communication of any updates from key suppliers towards the Procurement organization
- Support supplier performance measurement activities
- Provide support in setting up and managing regular supplier business review meetings
Key Relationships:
- Internal: Non-Trade Procurement team, Global Business Services teams, Key Business Stakeholder Functions, Key Business Partners (Legal, Finance, etc.)
- External: Suppliers: Executives, Key Account Managers & Legal Counsel, Peers and managers of other
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Advanced knowledge in strategic sourcing and procurement methodologies, business partnering and category management
- Strong understanding of financial planning, budget management, savings methodologies and impact
- Strong ability to analyze data, specifications and influence demand
- Strong communication experience
- Developed analytical, presentation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to operate at pace and respond positively to change
- Action oriented and solution minded team player with high degree of self-management
- Proficiency in MS Office and ARIBA Sourcing
- Fluent in English, to a business standard, spoken and written, additional language skills are advantageous
- Expertise in Category Management
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- A degree from an accredited college or university (B.Sc./M.Sc.) with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, finance, procurement or legal, or comparable professional education
- CIPS (completed or studying towards) preferred
- Minimum 3+ year experience in a procurement
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.