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)