Adidas SENIOR MANAGER SUPPLY CHAIN BUSINESS INSIGHTS M/F/D 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

59019199

Key Responsibilities

• Explore insights and trends with the goal of identifying improvements to business performance and inform decision-making.
• Collaborate with Business Intelligence reporting teams to create a comprehensive analysis of key Global SCM KPI’s, including providing input to target setting for SCM Executive KPIs
• Derive actionable insights pinpointing root causes and identifying opportunities for optimizing supply chain performance with clear data-driven tradeoffs.
• Identify, interpret, and communicated patterns and trends (including benchmarks) linked to key business drivers, transforming insights to actionable recommendations shared with key stakeholders.
• Continually consider and leverage additional dataset sources (including implemented advanced analytics tools & methodologies) to improve the quality of findings and insights.
• Facilitate with business stakeholders the definition of how performance is measured (KPIs), ensure standardization of the measurement and communicate in alignment with strategic direction and/or guidance.
• Initiate and drive discussions with x-functional stakeholders to collect and consolidate feedback, prepare, and align on actions / gameplan.
• Manage effective and timely communication on performance management based on an agreed drumbeat.

Key Relationships

Stakeholders can relate to the following core functions:

• SCM – Global (e.g. Global Availability & Inventory Management)
• SCM - Market Functions
• SCM - Strategy & Digital Solutions (e.g. Bus. Enablement (Head-Office, Learning & Development)
• Other Global functions (e.g. Global Sales)

, and Abilities

• End-to-end mindset: Big picture view of problems on hand with ability to embrace innovation, challenge the status quo and drive change while anticipating and forecasting various scenarios,
• Collaborative style:Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels and build relationships with cross-functional collaborators and executives.
• Communication:At ease to spend a lot of time on communication with an ability to synthesize key results from data sets and present to technical and non-technical audiences, fluency in English.
• Personal Resilience:Celebrates successes, sees failure is an opportunity to learn and bounce back in face of difficulty.
• Analytical Skills:Strong analytical, diagnostic, and creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights. Detail-oriented but lives for efficiency.
• Cultural Sensitivity:Capability to navigate and work effectively across diverse cultures within a multinational context.
• Done is better than perfect:Someone who likes to talk enough about what needs to happen but is itching to get the job done. Navigates ambiguity turning complicatedsituations into doable tasks.
• Supply Chain Expertise:In-depth knowledge of supply chain operations, processes and KPIs. With understanding of industry best practices and trends in supply chain management.

Requisite Education and Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of relevant work experience in multinational environment
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, General Business, Analytics, or a related field. Masters preferred.
• Experience with data analytics, managing data from multiple sources and interpreting results
• Hands on experience of BI solutions with software’s such as Power BI
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Solid presentation and storytelling skills
• Good understanding of supply chain principles and operating practices, logistics terminology, basic finance, and management of cross functional interdependencies