Adidas DIRECTOR PROCUREMENT 

Poland, Masovian Voivodeship, Warsaw 

171072596

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Execution of procurement activities for respective categories in alignment with the line manager and relevant business partners

• Support the implementation of category strategies for the responsible categories

• Deliver towards the committed annual Non-Trade Procurement ambitions (e.g., negotiation success)

• Definition, commitment, and realization of goals, in alignment with the SVP GCA finance/ CPO and the overall Non- Trade Procurement targets, as well as with the respective business stakeholders

• Managerial responsibility for your respective Non-Trade Procurement area

• Act as the Single Point of Contact (e.g., escalations) for a dedicated adidas business area in context of all Non-Trade Procurement related topics

• Actively partner up with appointed stakeholders to effectively build business relationships enabling them to achieve their business targets

• Drive demand intake within NTP and provide regular status updates to your stakeholder

• Understand and manage business needs and address solutions

• Manage and challenge business expectations in line with Category strategies and policies

• Take full responsibility to drive project pipelines to achieve negotiation success ambitions

• Lead and/or execute large sized sourcing projects (e.g. (e-)RfX, Single Source, risk assessment, supplier base assessment, internal and external analysis) in alignment with the Category Strategy

• Engage with respective stakeholders and suppliers in context of the sourcing event

• Perform contract administration activities (local/global) and manage contract compliance

• Negotiate large sized contracts up to final authorization

• Participate in regular Category strategy upskilling sessions

• Drive and lead the development of global strategies (large sized categories) to address business needs incl. risk and supplier base assessment)

• Market Trends: Perform a comprehensive market research to understand the current and potential future market trends and new innovations related to service scope of the category

• Internal Requirements: Follow-up with Business Stakeholder Managers on a global level to obtain current and future needs of their stakeholders to consider in their category strategy development

• Leads category council meetings on a regular basis including upskilling of Sourcing Managers

• Add, update, and maintain all category relevant information (e.g., Supplier Rostering) in the Non-Trade Procurement Database

• Benchmark category practices to identify initiatives for improvement and drive innovative approaches

• Define P2P and buying channel strategies, identify and consider automation potential • Act as an advisor/escalation point for category (large sized) related issues towards Sourcing colleagues and drive resolution in line with global Procurement policies

• Takes full responsibility of consolidation and communication of category achievements (financial or other) People Management

• Manage resource planning and have full responsibility in recruiting process

• Implements resource plans, including conducting recruitment interviews

• Facilitates selection, assessment and on-boarding processes, and internal resource allocation

• Contributes to transitioning of resources, complying with relevant statutory or external regulations and codes of good practice

• Ensures appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development

• Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload and organizational efficiency

• Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency, analysis 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 the Non-Trade Procurement objectives

• Responsible for performance assessment

• Supports team members development areas / upskilling needs

• Act as Point of contact for assigned key supplier(s)

• Lead supplier development activities based on supplier partner management strategy • Set-up cross-functional review meetings with key suppliers in order to improve performance and further cost reductions

• Develop and nurture relationship with supplier to explore further capabilities and drive future innovation

• Communicate any updates from key suppliers towards the Procurement organization • Monitor the performance of the key suppliers, including key performance optimization such as

• fulfillment towards their contractual agreement

• benchmarking according to industry standards

• managing risks

• Identify and drive potential contract improvement opportunities

• Establish regular Business Review meetings together with the key supplier

• Act as Advisor for Stakeholder/Category Manager related to key strategic suppliers

• External: Suppliers: Executives, Key Account Managers & Legal Counsel

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Advanced knowledge in strategic sourcing and procurement methodologies, business partnering and category management (4 steps strategic sourcing, TCO, fact-based negotiations, life cycle of products/services etc.)

• Experience across indirect spend categories, especially on marketing categories

• Expertise knowledge of procurement tools and data, content, and automation (ARIBA e-sourcing, ARIBA P2P, e-catalogues, buying channels, etc.).

• Proven expertise streamlining and improving procurement processes and systems, development of procurement category strategies

• Strong track record of delivering sustainable savings with bottom line impact

• Strong ability to analyze data, specifications, and influence demand

• Experience in developing business cases to support investments

• Experience in working with procurement shared service centers

• Capability to independently interact throughout the adidas organization and to work with virtual teams

• Strong analytical, presentation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills

• Ability to operate at pace and respond positively to change

• Action oriented and solution minded team player with high degree of self-management

• Proficiency in MS Office and ARIBA Sourcing

• Fluent in English, to a business standard, spoken and written, additional language skills are advantageous

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• A degree from an accredited college or university with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, finance, procurement or legal, or comparable professional education

• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in a procurement role, minimum 5 years’ experience in a strategic procurement position (manager level or above) with project/strategic sourcing experience and knowledge of category management practices; strong experience across all stages of supplier selection, negotiation and contracting.

• Experience in a global / matrix structure, working with shared service centers is desired

• Experience of managing and developing teams of a similar size