Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:
"The Global Non-Trade Procurement team strives to be a strategic partner, fostering exceptional business stakeholder and supplier relationships, ensuring integrity, excellence and compliance while focusing on value creation. This can be achieved by successfully executing the following four main areas: Stakeholder Management, Sourcing Management, Category Management and Supplier Management.”
This position is located in Herzogenaurach and is 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, customer satisfaction & on-time in-full delivery of projects)
Key Responsibilities:
Stakeholder Management
- 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
- Drive demand intake within NTP and provide regular status updates to your stakeholder
- Understand and manage business needs and address solutions
- Manage and challenge business expectations in line with Category strategies and policies
- Build up and drive project pipelines to achieve negotiation success ambitions
Sourcing Management
- Lead and/or execute 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 medium sized contracts up to final authorization
- Participate in regular Category strategy upskilling sessions
Category Management
- Drive and lead the development of global strategies (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 (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
- Act as Point of contact for assigned key supplier(s)
- Lead supplier development activities based on supplier partner management strategy
- Set-up cross-functional review meetings with key suppliers in order to improve performance and further cost reductions
- Develop and nurture relationship with supplier to explore further capabilities and drive future innovation
- Communicate any updates from key suppliers towards the Procurement organization
- Monitor the performance of the key suppliers, including key performance optimization such as
• fulfillment towards their contractual agreement
• benchmarking according to industry standards
• managing risks
- Identify and drive potential contract improvement opportunities
- Establish regular Business Review meetings together with the key supplier
- Act as Advisor for Stakeholder/Category Manager related to key strategic suppliers
Key Relationships:
- Internal: Non-Trade Procurement team, Global Business Services teams, Key Business Stakeholder Functions, Key Business Partners (Legal, Finance, HR, Corporate Communications, 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 (4 steps strategic sourcing, TCO, fact-based negotiations, life cycle of products/services etc.)
- Experience across indirect spend categories
- Strong knowledge of procurement tools and data, content and automation (E-sourcing -Ariba-, p2p - Ariba-, e-catalogues, buying channels, etc.).
- Proven expertise streamlining and improving procurement processes and systems, development of procurement category strategies
- Strong ability to analyze data, specifications and influence demand
- Experience in developing business cases to support investments
- Experience in working with procurement shared service centers
- Capability to independently interact throughout the adidas organization and to work with virtual teams
- Strong 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, ARIBA Sourcing, and other digital Procurement platforms
- Fluent in English & German skills, to a business standard, spoken and written, additional language skills are advantageous
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
- At least 5+ years working experience in a procurement or Business related position, minimum 3 years’ experience in a strategic procurement position (manager level or above) with project/strategic sourcing experience and knowledge of category management practices; strong experience across all stages of supplier selection, negotiation and contracting.
- Experience in a global / matrix structure, working with shared service centers is desired
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