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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:
The TRANS4RM program aims to equip adidas with a future-ready enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with built-in intelligent technologies, including data driven AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. With the TRANS4RM Business Transformation we are creating the digital foundation from which we will deliver a premium customer and consumer experience across all channels (Wholesale, Retail, eCom). This role will be part of the 24-36-month transformation program and support implementation of the new ERP system, SAP S/4 HANA for Market Europe (3 clusters – 8 zones – 29 countries) within the respective workstream area.
Key Responsibilities and General Accountabilities:
Ownership of Business Processes:
- Take ownership of Transport processes across Market Europe – bring current process expertise and conduct future process gap analysis.
- Drive final decision for the TRANS4RM template (future template sign off).
Alignment with Business Objectives:
- Ensure that business objectives and critical needs are fully supported and harmonized with the future operational set up.
Overall project support
- Support the workstream lead to set function/workstream objectives, develop detailed work breakdown structures with concrete activities, milestones, roles and responsibilities and defined KPIs.
- Support business case creation for Global Template Deviation for Transport Europe.
Information Gathering and Gap Analysis:
- Gain an in-depth comprehension of the to-be model, identifying market-specific process gaps, operational requirements, and business needs.
Feedback and Impact Assessment:
- Provide sophisticated feedback on business operations and assess the impact of market processes and operations due to change TRANS4RM brings.
- Engage and drive active change management for Transportation processes within TRANS4RM.
Engagement with Local Experts:
- Engage and consult with local subject matter experts and key users as needed.
Harmonization and Standardization:
- Lead harmonization, standardization, and process improvement efforts during roll-out.
Transition planning, risk mitigation and temporary process definition:
- Evaluate & identify areas within Transport Europe that will be impacted in a phased go live.
- Anticipate potential losses and develop proactive strategies for mitigation. Collaborate with relevant department to design and implement temporary processes when needed.
- Drive process changes and change management across all stakeholders.
Testing & Training
- Take ownership of end-to-end testing of Europe transportation processes within Trans4m
- Provide key user trainings for all stakeholders involved within Europe Transport organization.
- Provide guidance and learning opportunities to key stakeholders on Transportation operations and assess the impact of market processes and operations due to change TRANS4RM brings.
Key Relationships:
- Europe Transportation team
- Europe DC Operations
- Europe TRANS4RM team
- Global TRANS4RM team
- Business Process Owners
- Key Users
- Cluster and Zones teams’ operational business experts
- TRANS4RM Tech team
- SAP Consultants
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Deep knowledge of current Europe business processes in Transportation and gap analysis expertise.
- Ability to make decisions for TRANS4RM future template sign-off.
- Experience in project management, objective definition and KPI development.
- Proficiency in supporting Business Case creation for respective Workstream.
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Experience in process harmonization and improvement.
- Ability to think strategically as well as tactically, think out of the box mentality.
- Implicit drive for (internal) consumer obsession
- Result orientation and pro-active (engaging & impact-oriented) mindset, ability to think end-to-end with a market/ global mindset
- Strong organization skills
- Ability to work in a challenging environment with different international cultures.
- Ability to be self-directed while working under tight deadlines.
- International mind-set and English fluency.
Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- Degree in Business Administration, Management, or related areas.
- Deep understanding of the Transport Europe organization.
- Minimum of 5+ years of work experience in Transportation Management, with experience in process management or process improvement.
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