Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:The Supply Chain’s E-com Excellence team in Europe is responsible for coordinating and driving the roadmap of SCM projects and initiatives that will enable E-com’s ambitions in the region.
We unlock the full potential of EU Ecom by teaming up with Commercial to ensure that Supply Chain delivers what the channel needs to win. We enable smarter, faster, and more customer-centric operations by closing gaps and incubating new capabilities, transforming ideas into impactful supply chain solutions.
Ecom and the marketplace around it continuously evolve and this role is essential to keep SCM closely aligned with the channel’s demands. Looking at Q4 2025 and full year 2026, the 3 main workstreams that the Manager, SCM e-com excellence will drive are:
- Partner Program expansion roadmap
The Partner Program business amplifies ecom’s reach within Europe, bringing our products to the multi-brand retailers in which consumers browse and shop, such as Zalando, ASOS and Amazon. It is one of the top growth drivers for our entire digital business in the region and requires a strong backbone of Supply Chain Management (SCM) experts and processes to continue to thrive.
In this role, you act as the central SCM orchestrator, translating strategic Partner Program ambitions into actionable supply chain plans. Your day is defined by proactively connecting Partner Program’s needs with SCM capabilities, ensuring resources are aligned and potential challenges are addressed before they impact delivery.
Your day-to-day activities will be:
- Serve as the primary SCM point of contact for Partner Program expansion and enhancement initiatives.
- Collaborate with the Partner Program business team to review, assess, and align the roadmap of projects with SCM resource and capacity.
- Attend and lead roadmap alignment meetings with Partner Program and SCM teams.
- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Ensure that all new demands are correctly submitted in the “Annual project planning” process.
- Coordinate planning across Tech, Distribution Centers, Carriers, and Transportation sub-teams to ensure timely and effective implementation. The scope of resources includes adidas-owned as well as third-parties such as 3PLs, carriers, integrators and others.
- Identify resource constraints and proactively communicate risks, proposing solutions or adjustments to project timelines.
- Drive new projects. Development, planning and execution of Supply Chain initiatives, focused on the e-commerce sales channel. You thrive when coordinating the action to drive progress and deliver outcomes. This will include:
- Initiating and driving discussions with x-functional stakeholders to collect and consolidate feedback, prepare and align solutions
- Creating business case documents and presenting them.
- Creating the action plan and coordinating the key players, keeping them accountable to their deliverables.
- Communicating frequently on progress and giving transparency of issues.
- Celebrating milestones achieved, closing the topic and moving on to the next one.
- S4EU is adidas Europe’s journey to migrate SAP to the S4 version. I will be executed in phases, the first one starting in Sep 2026.
- In this first phase, part of the EU business will run on the new version of SAP, while the other part remains on the previous version. We call this the “Split Operations” phase of the project.
- In preparation for the Split Operations phase of the S4EU rollout in Europe, the Manger, SCM Ecom Excellence will support the SCM readiness for the cutover phase of the project.
- Campus South, our Italy-based DC and key for ecommerce flow of goods, will cease operations for some days and, after the system migration is completed, it will take over fulfilment of all orders to Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. Ensuring SCM readiness for before, during and after the cutover will be responsibility of the team, led by the Senior Manager.
- You will support by driving workstreams that are essential for the project’s success, such as simulation of end-to-end SCM flows from DC to consumers, aimed at mitigating service-level gaps that result from the cutover. This role will also support the teams driving product availability at Campus South, which will be a key commercial success factor to minimize net sales impact.
- Once the cutover is complete, you will support the hypercare phase of Split Operations. This phase will involve a wide array of experts and your role will be to monitor the end-to-end SCM performance. You will identify service level gaps that impact consumer experience and quickly create action plans to close them (connected to the first point described above).
- In addition, you may be asked to support the S4EU project team in Change Management activities with the EU ecom and SCM teams.
To perform these three main responsibilities, it is essential that you become a trusted partner to different teams in the E-com business as well as in SCM. These teams will help you perform and you will help them by delivering projects and initiatives, ccommunicating on performance, new implementations and escalations. Your Key Relationship partners will be:
- Sales Planning and Analytics, Digital Sales, Finance, Merchandising and Digital Operations and wider functions in Europe e-com.
- Europe and Global Supply Chain Management, primarily DCs, Transportation, Deployment and Product Supply.
- Finance SCM.
- Global and Europe Tech and Product Ownership teams, primarily colleagues behind key processes such as Replenishment, Delivery Promise to consumers, Order Allocation to DCs and data flow into Omnihub and reporting solutions.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Team player. Proven collaboration and people skills in high demand environments.
- Strong communication skills, especially when interacting with different levels of business and with different international cultures.
- Quick and agile to pivot and adapt. Comfortable with fast-paced work and with “good now” beats “perfect later”.
- Self-initiated and pro-active mindset, with a strong bias for action. Ability to think end-to-end and operate cross-functionally.
- Strong analytical skills. Our action plans and recommendations are grounded on strong data foundation.
- Knowledge about Omnichannel, fulfilment, and e-com, developed in either on the Business or the Supply Chain side.
Requisite Education and Qualifications:
- Relevant work experience in eCom, Retail, Omnichannel.
- Fluent in English both verbal and written.
- High level of MS Office suite knowledge, especially PowerPoint and Excel. Experience in the use of PowerBI is a plus.
- Prior work in business functions (i.e. Sales, Retail, eCom) is a plus.
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