Sr Process Automation Developer jobs at Adidas in United States, Spartanburg

Sr. Manager Product & Category Management Special Channel APP

Director Reporting Line:Senior Director BU Special Channel

Indirect/Secondary Reporting Line:

GSMS Grade: M3

Number of Personnel Managed:

Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: -

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• DRIVE a sustainableAPPbusiness growth through a product strategy that reflects understanding of value-driven consumer, online & offline behavior, and distribution (eCom platforms & physical retail)

Key Responsibilities:

• Deepen consumer connection: Obtain and deliver consumer insights to make the appropriate choice on product and marketplace management.
• Merchandising strategy & planning: Deliver seasonal merchandising plan & strategy, including range architecture, segmentation, lifecycle, pricing, product rangeand store layoutfrom both global and local creation and direction for assortment.
• Product Creation Planning: plan, brief, and manage to operate the product creation process with creation team to deliver the price value competitive products to drive special channel growth without compromising regular channels.
• Business Planning Management: responsible for seasonal sell in with product range plan and sell-in margin to achieve sell out target and other critical product financialtarget.
• Routine:including business track/review through DNA & MicroStrategy and system/file management includingMaster Range File, HUB, DMT & RMA.
• x-BU Collaboration: Close Collaboration with BU to provide input into Category strategies and seasonal ranging, identify opportunities to maximize through segmentation and exclusivity, ensure clear differentiation of offering where critical to gain market share and drive business growth.
• Drive Cross-Functional Communication & Alignment: this role will need a smooth and effective cross functional communication including sales and channels to align seasonal strategy and assortment with both GCA and Global organization.

KPI’s:

• Category NS, Net Margin and Contribution across GCA
• Sell-out
• Forecast & data accuracy
• Market share
• Achievement of key SBP initiatives
• Future City store MPSA
• Future City store court

Key Relationships:

• GCA BU team
• GCA PP&O team
• Creation Center Shanghai
• OMB team
• Future City Sales
• Product Sales
• Factory Outlet Operation
• Ecom Operation

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Expert understanding of China market and consumersand commercial needs(especially Footwear perspective)and ability to interpret insights against strategy.
• Strong presentation/communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to translate and articulate data results into clear business actions.
• Distinct track record of success and high-level Category Management & Merchandising knowledge from Sports Industry inFootwear.
• Strong cross-functional and stakeholder management experience across commercial functions (e.g. marketing, sales,buying,etc.) and support functions (finance preferred).
• Positive and organized work ethic, ability to organize teams and processes cross functionally
• SolutionOriented Mindset.
• Team player with high level of integrity & attention to detail.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• years of experience in range management/product required. Regional experience preferred.

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• Sporting goods industry experience required.
• Fluent in English.
• Strong Computer Skills including Outlook, Word, Excel (Pivot), Powerpoint, etc
• Passion for sports and belief that through sports we have the power to change lives.
• Willingness to travel up to20-30% of time.

Purpose: Supports the operations leadership team by passing direction from the office to the warehouse floor. Works closely with operations associates, forklift operators and external drivers to ensure efficient and timely work flow through the Distribution Center.

Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for counting the quantity of cases on trucks, verifying the accuracy of loading sheets, and completing settlement sheets
• Checking in/out of external drivers and handling any of their questions/inquiries
• Keep records of driver interactions on the daily dock schedule
• Respond to emails in a timely manner and answer incoming phone calls to the Shipping office
• Receive incoming shipments and compare items to work orders provided by supervisor
• Determine storage areas for incoming shipments by assisting in the selection of appropriate space within the warehouse
• Ascertain that all incoming and outgoing shipments are properly labelled and that correlating documents are available with each shipment
• Process and organize daily Shipping/Receiving paperwork in a timely fashion
• Communicate clearly and appropriately with co-workers, contractors, and truck drivers Ability to develop and share best practices
• Help to foster a positive team environment that encourages all associates to provide insights and feedback to improve processes, adapt to an ever-changing business, and stay focused on customer satisfaction
• Contribute to maintaining a safe and orderly working environment
• Identify, report, and follow up on any property damage or safety concerns
• Participate in Lean Six Sigma activities
• Other duties as assigned

Key Relationships:
• Inbound/Outbound Distribution personnel
• Operations management team
• External freight drivers
• Inventory Control associates

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English
• Ability to work collaboratively within a large group of co-workers
• Positive and enthusiastic approach
• Strong knowledge of shipping and receiving operations in a warehouse environment
• Performance and metrics driven mindset
• Proficiency in Excel, Outlook, Word and working knowledge of WMS principles
• Regularly required to talk or hear; stand or walk; use fingers, hands and arms to feel, handle, grip, grasp, lift, push and pull for up to ten (10) hours/day
• Ability to work in a warehouse environment
• Ability to reliably attend work/scheduled hours

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
• High school diploma or GED equivalent required
• Minimum of two (2) years related distribution experience and/or training
• Ability to work overtime and weekends as required

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure a timely collection of open receivables balance by working closely with the customer, internal stakeholders and solve any causes of non-payments.
• Ensure that all payments are received are allocated accurately and timely without any errors
• Follow-up in case of discrepancies and ensure they are handled within a reasonable time frame.
• Be accountable and demonstrate ownership, being able to manage escalations towards management, proposing proactive feedback summary and recommended solutions in alignment with the department policy.
• Be able to back-up the Team Leader solving operational complex situations, and to guide, provide training and support to other team members by applying streamlined approaches.
• Lead short-term defined scope projects or support larger projects within finance operations also processing periodic reviews to identify, assess and take action to mitigate risks to project success.
• Manage customer relationship, which includes problem resolution and root cause analysis
• Assess and review the credit risk on the customer on regular basis to mitigate risk for adidas according to credit policy
• Perform review, analysis and proposal of release on credit block deliveries.
• Provide insight in the development of the accounts receivable position of the customer to the Credit & Collections leadership team and Sales / Finance stakeholders.
• Act as the point of contact for the process related issues and support on escalations
• Track disputes, forward to the right department for their solution and follow-up until their closing.
• Identify the improvement opportunities and support their implementation
• Provide insight into the calculation of the required provision for uncollectable balances.
• Support requests from internal and external stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain strong financial controls over the work performed.

Key Relationships:

• Cash Application
• Customer Primary Data
• Account and Sales Operations
• Sales
• Market Finance

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong Finance Acumen
• Solid experience with SAP and Excel
• Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English and Italian in a business environment setting.
• Ability to pay close attention to detail
• Solid interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation
• Ability to navigate easily within complex organizations, connect with a variety functions, audiences, management styles, or cultures.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Accounting, Business Administration or similar field
• 5 plus yearsrelevant work experience in the accounting / corporate finance area

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Oversee integrated purchasing, global supply planning and PO management activities. Ensure performance achieves availability target OTIF (On Time In Full) and OTA (On Time Allocation) and respects market SLAs. Optimize usage of factory capacity in line with market requirements, supplier capabilities to service global demand. Work across functions to drive risk mitigation plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee GBS PSC – Business Control stream, composed of three different teams focusing on Market, Factory and the Responsiveness Program – all with the aim to ensure product availability.
• Manage the buy decisions in line with the supply plan and respect SLA’s.
• Lead the business control process with market SCM by providing availability projections and addressing risks and opportunities; drive buy reviews and manage supply constraints through mitigation actions such as level loading process and demand management.
• Understand supply constraints in collaboration with Master Planning and Liaison Office (LO), deliver performance development and ensure risk mitigation plans are in place.
• Manage complex process ownership and execution identifying and lead process improvements. Drive implementation of projects within area of responsibility.
• Lead/support process improvements, aligning and prioritizing cross divisionally/ cross brand where possible to enhance operational efficiency.
• Develop and manage collaborative relationships with key counterparts in Market SCM, Sourcing and SCM Hubs.
• Set goals, adhere to the agreed SLAs towards the business partners, provide guidance and support, and foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Manage and coach team, setting objectives, providing feedback and supporting personal growth and development.
• Ensure that enough structure and resources are in place to execute all processes and tasks with consistency and quality, and recruit direct and indirect reports including management level positions.

Key Relationships:

• Liaison Offices (LO's)
• Market SCM
• GPS
• Planning Services & DPM
• Other GBS GPS Teams

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Comprehensive understanding of E2E-processes for PSC – Business Control as well as good understanding of main PSC processes.
• Good understanding of supply chain principles and demand/supply models.
• Solid interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation that can navigate easily within complex organizations, connect with a variety functions, audiences, management styles, or cultures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, highly results driven and self-motivated player.
• Good communication skills with proven ability to interact, influence and convince at management level.
• Excellent communication, people management and change management skills as well as ability to manage relationships professionally.Demonstrated capacity to lead a high preforming team.
• Growth mindset, keen to learn and approach subjects outside of comfort zone.
• Good knowledge of MS Office and Supply Chain Planning and Execution software applications.
• Fluent in English, additional language is a plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in supply chain management or in the areas of business administration, logistics, planning, information systems. Master's degree is a plus.
• 8 years of experience in supply chain management, operations or planning, preferably in the Accessories, Apparel or Footwear industries including leadership positions

Purpose:Responsible for daily operations functions within the DC. Direct the workflow in and around the Case Reserve department to include product flow. to and from Case Reserve in a safe and effective manner, while properly directing associates to complete assigned tasks. Responsible for continually improving the processes of the facility to increase the overall effectiveness of the operation. This role requires an effective professional communicator (verbal & written), professional team player and must work well with others, must have excellent prioritizing skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting leaders with the information
• Release wave by wave type individually in -non sort
• Ensuring no waves are locked
• Enter & track waves on the pass down as they are dropped & processed
• If opening multiple waves of same type assign task to drivers
• Assign drivers to work profile.
• Knowledge of understanding when to wave profile allows zone picking
• Manage sla locations
• IBPD
• Tracking LM printing reports
• Responding to all emails in a timely manner
  • Repicks
  • QA/IC
  • Inbound
  • Mezzanine
  • Sorter
  • Returns/Rework etc
• Ensure Repicks & trouble tasks are picked in a timely fashion
• Utilize the staffing model throughout the day
• Communicating with shipping on dedicated flow
• Assigning runners to transport & pack out dedicated (lead)
• Managing putaway flow
• Check for trouble task after every wave is dropped
• Ensure a good flow of cases are at case break areas
• Provide details on missed cases (lead)
• Validating cases are 100% picked and in drop zone as we are completing
• Support pulling or put away when needed
• Check each picked wave ensuring it's completely completed prior to stating its closed. No cases are systemically showing left in location
• Always ensure there are no loose pairs lying around either desk at shifts end, leave the area clean and ready for the incoming shift

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication in English
• Ability to work collaboratively within a large group of co-workers
• Positive and enthusiastic approach
• Strong knowledgeof DC operations, including storage methodsand material flow
• Performance and metrics driven mindset
• Excel, Outlook, Word and working knowledge of WMS principles

• Regularly required to talk or hear; stand or walk; use fingers, hands and arms to feel, handle, grip, grasp, lift, push and pull for up to ten (10) hours/day
• Ability to work in a warehouse environment
• Abilityto reliably attend work/scheduled hours
• Occasionally required to sit; bending, twisting, climb or balance;lift and carry items such as boxes weighing up to forty (40) pounds;and stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required
• Minimum of (1) year related distribution experience and/or training

• We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.
• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Employees are eligible to earn​an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.​Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount​.4388​hours per day that increases with years of service,​twelve​paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.

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• Availability must be flexible and include evenings and weekends.

• The hours are part-time and will vary based on business needs.

• You must have or be pursuing a high school diploma or general education degree (GED).

• Three to six months’ experience working in a retail environment preferred.

• Basic numeracy, literacy, and verbal communication skills required.

• Must be 16 years of age or older.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and operate a Brannock device.

• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Why adidas? Here’s just some of the rewards:

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• After the first year of employment, education assistance for employees working 20+ hours a week.

• A generous Employee Discount.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and lead the development of scalable automation solutions, integrating seamlessly with diverse enterprise systems.
• Lead, coach, and technically supervise the automation development team, ensuring continuous skills development and delivery excellence.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for the development team, providing guidance on complex solution design and problem-solving.
• Facilitate knowledge-sharing sessions, technical reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
• Drive and enforce best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and documentation standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to drive process automation projects from concept to successful execution.
• Demonstrate deep expertise in both UiPath and Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate Cloud & Desktop, Power Apps) to deliver hybrid automation solutions.
• Employ appropriate technologies, including RPA, workflow automation, back-end services, REST APIs, custom scripting, and AI, to create sophisticated solutions.
• Produce and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring clarity in solution design and technical specifications.
• Monitor and track established KPIs and CPIs to measure team performance, solution quality, and adherence to delivery timelines, actively driving corrective actions and continuous improvement where necessary.
• Foster a culture of innovation within the CoE, exploring and integrating emerging technologies and methodologies.

Key Relationships:

• Cross-functional GBS Operations Teams
• Global Process Owner
• GBS Operational Excellence Team
• Transition Team
• Tech and Global IT

Requisite Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven leadership experience in mentoring, coaching, and leading small-to-medium development teams.
• Proven expertise (5+ years) in crafting complex automation solutions utilizing RPA tools like UiPath and Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps).
• Working knowledge in languages such as Python, C#,
• Awareness/understanding of newer technology /frameworks, including AI/ML.
• Strong knowledge of system integration via REST API.
• Proficient in database technologies (SQL or comparable query languages).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Skilled in using version control systems like Git/Bitbucket.
• A solid foundation in software design principles and architecture.
• Proficient in Agile methodologies, capable of leading Scrum or Kanban teams.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong mentorship qualities to uplift junior developers.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal).

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, Data Sciences, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of overall experience and 5 years dedicated to process automation.
• Proven track record of delivering and leading successful automation projects.
• Superior communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.