דרושים Business Architect ב-United States, California, Antioch

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the continuous development of the adidas Workplace Concept (aWC), based on the principles of Arrive, Perform, and Recover.
• Collaborate with regional teams to ensure global alignment in workplace design and support the launch of new projects with consistent standards and practices.
• Measure the success and impact of workplace initiatives on employee engagement and performance.
• Foster Communities of Practice to drive continuous learning and regional involvement in the evolution of the aWC.
• Implement workplace experience strategies, concepts, and rollout plans, including insights from change and activation management.
• Partners with project teams align workplace design with business strategy.
• Position adidas as a “Best Place to Work” by continuously improving workspaces and services using industry data, research, and best practices.
• Develop and support the implementation of spatial and design concepts in markets and regions.
• Ensure workplace safety in line with global and regional requirements.
• Promote data collection and quality in accordance with global standards.
• Create business cases to support investment transparency and KPI tracking.
• Manage performance and contracts of external vendors.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders and key stakeholders.
• Stay informed on industry trends through networking and participation in relevant conferences, contributing to knowledge sharing and talent pipeline development.

Key Interfaces

• Global and regional Workplaces teams
• Digital Workplaces & Tech
• HR functions (e.g., HR Strategy, Talent Acquisition, DE&I)
• Brand functions (e.g., Consumer Insights, Brand Design)
• Corporate Communications
• Non-Trade Procurement
• Retail Real Estate Design Team
• Local and global leadership
• Local authorities
• External consultants, project managers, architects, and contractors

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Passion for sport and alignment with adidas’ brand values
• Strategic mindset with a strong ability to execute
• Ability to work both creatively and analytically
• Strong design skills in both architecture and interior design, with a focus on brand integration
• Agility in navigating a constantly evolving environment
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and understand external business drivers
• Track record of delivering complex, multicultural, cross-functional projects
• Deep understanding of the dynamics within a global organization
• High level of employee-centric thinking
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels
• Fluent in English (written and spoken); German is a plus
• Willingness to travel internationally (approx. 25%)

Education & Experience

• Degree in Architecture, Interior Design, or equivalent professional experience
• Extensive experience working on global projects and with international teams
• Minimum 5 years of experience in architecture or interior design
• Strong expertise in workplace design and adjacent areas
• Good expertise in retail and showroom design, with brand integration

Specialist advice

• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organization’s planning and operations.
• Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
• Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization.

Business analysis

• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
• Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
• Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

Requirements definition and management

• Contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritization of requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
• Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

Porting/software configuration

• Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platform-specific versions of one or more software products.
• Documents faults, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.

Application support

• Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures.
• Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
• Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.

Functional expertise

• Extensive knowledge of the HR employee data integrations and deep understanding of the employee data model
• Experience with SAP Employee Central and all modules that are connected to it e.g. Talent suite, Rewards suite including integration with SAP HCM
• Understanding and supporting SAP HCM / EC towards the Payroll integrations

People Management / Resource Management:

• Is involved in recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decision and pre-selection of candidates
• Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload, and organizational efficiency
• Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs.

• Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives

Key Relationships:

• Global IT
• Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
• HR Management

Strategic Alignment

• Specify the Business Process roadmap considering the value for the Supply Chain user community and the company
• Be responsible for the delivery in line with the roadmap and committed delivery dates
• Identify and solve dependencies with other business process managers to ensure efficient delivery
• Coordinate interfaces between different global and market business process teams

Business Process Management (BPM)

• Support & lead process design activities
• Develop and implement best practices across Supply Chain to ensure process consistency
• Support the SCM Community to identify, analyze, and improve existing business processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Bring in business knowledge to support & challenge process designs

Change Management & Continuous Improvement

• Foster a mindset of continuous process improvement using methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma
• Develop and provide business process trainings
• Drive best practice sharing across the Supply Chain Business Process teams and beyond

Key Relationships:

• SCM Business Process teams (Global Functions & Markets)
• Strategy & Digital Solutions
• SCM/Sales/Manage Business Product Owners
• Enterprise Architecture
• adidas Internal Audit

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Good analytical skills and attention to detail
• Knowledge of Supply Chain, Sourcing, Sales or Finance processes
• Experience in Business Process, Operational Management and/or Project Management
• Experience in process design methodologies & languages [BPMN 2.0]
• Passion for process tools eg. Signavio, Aris
• Ability to challenge the status quo
• Good Team player
• English fluent (written and oral), other languages are a plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• College or university degree with a focus on Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in a corporate environment (e.g. business process management, project management, operational excellence background)