Adidas MANAGER TRANSPORTATION CONTROL & BILLING 

United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Dubai 

660236866

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Key Responsibilities:

· Budget execution and control.

· Accountable for invoicing process controls and system issue resolution.

· Freight services and payments conciliation

· Develop, manage, and update regional transportation decks and scorecards

• Drive data-driven decision making in whole BR network deliveries

• Analyse and pinpoint top improvement areas within Supply Chain

• Own the financial performance reporting of the department.

• Analyse and report full visibility for Net Sales monthly Recognition share.

• Carry out ad hoc analysis to drive agile decision making

• Support ongoing and designed projects with data, by building and justifying business cases

• Build automized reports (Excel, Data warehouse, or web based) for team use

• Drive and own data reliability and richness on company-wide used data tools

• Work with the technical teams to enhance the transportation reporting capabilities

• Improve the understanding, awareness and proper use of available data within the organization

Key Relationships:

• Freight Transportation management

• Initiate and drive data driven discussions with cross-functional internal stakeholders, as well as external partners

• Couple the data with qualitative input, issues, feedback, and insights to prepare, plan, align and deliver solutions

• Identify, analyze and interpret trends, patterns and outliers in complex data sets

• Work with senior management to prioritize business and information needs

• Proactively manage stakeholders, identify needs and manage communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Soft skills:

• Thinks Big and has bias for action. Expected to be creative, to plan, shine and deliver.

• End-to-end mindset with a holistic view of problems and opportunities on hand

• Business acumen, to be able to grasp and help drive relevant decision making

• Has backbone, develops and constructively communicates his opinion, not scared to disagree, and yet commit.

• Seeks the best for the business always in mind

• Transparently presents the story the data indicates, do not manipulate the data to prove the story

• Solution builder with a creative mind and solid experience in delivering result-oriented analysis

• Highly self-motivated, and acts like an ‘owner’

• Earns trust, both of his/her team and internal/external stakeholders. Does what he/she says in due time, and dares to say ‘No’ when required so.

• Engaging, open and perceptive to feedback and improvement

• Autonomous and capable of handling all-way communication (upward, lateral and downward)

• Solid presentation, deck building and storytelling skills

• Discipline in planning, time management and organization skills

• Can learn the technical grounds and talk to non-technical people in a common language

Hard skills:

• SAP FICO intermedium – advanced preferred

• Advanced MS Office skills, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

• Technical expertise regarding data models, data mining, segmentation and presentation techniques

• Strong knowledge and expertise with reporting packages (Business Objects for instance), databases (SQL), PowerBI, Microstrategy, VBA and Tableau.

• Number savvy with strong analytical skills

• Adept at queries, MS Excel based analysis, report writing and presenting the findings

• Having worked in an e-com environment is considered an advantage

• Understanding of a complex transportation / supply chain network

• Working experience with a Transportation Management and Optimization system is a plus

• Can locate and define new process improvement processes

• Dives deep with proven data analytics skills, and willing to ‘get his/her hands dirty’

• Frugal. Does not compensate speed or quality over each other.

• Has experience in building and evaluating Business Cases with scenario planning

• Financial literacy is a plus

People management skills:

• Fosters a team culture that encourages trust, open and constructive discussion

• Insists on the Highest Standards. Setting high expectations on him/herself and the partnering teams

• Good at prioritization, effort estimation, assignment and hand over

• Curious, open to learn & develop. Leverages, and shares his/her expertise

Requisite Education and Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree from relevant departments of universities required.

• Demonstrated data analytics skills with various tools

• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience in an advanced analytics environment – preferably with a supply chain and/or transportation management background (relevant consultancy included)