Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for management of Licenses with SAP. Conversion of existing on premise licenses in subscription based licenses like RISE, Cloud, BTP.
- Responsible for management of co-innovation in between Adidas Trans4rm program and vendors like SAP. Especially BTP, Fashion, CAR, Planning solution, HR suite.
- Co-responsibility for ERP roll out in different regions. Especially for Hypercare and design of Vendor contracts to cover hyper care phases of the program.
- Responsible for elimination of shelf ware in license pool in for value realization of existing investments.
Demand management
- Implements demand management analysis and planning activities.
- Provides advice to help stakeholders adopt and adhere to the agreed demand management approach.
- Performs what-if analyses and scenario planning; develops insights and proposals to improve business value.
- Manages the process of integrating demand management with complementary strategic, operational and change management processes.
- Reviews new business proposals; provides advice on demand issues and routes requests to the right place.
- Works with business representatives to agree and implement short-term and medium-term modifications to demand.
- Maintains a register of business requests, including the status of each request, reporting as required.
Program management
- Plans, directs, and co-ordinates activities to manage and implement a program from contract /proposal initiation to final operational stage including the transition into “business-as-usual”; plans, schedules, monitors, and reports on activities related to the program.
- Ensures that programs are managed to realize business benefits and that program management is informed by an awareness of current technical developments.
Project management
- Takes full responsibility for the definition, documentation, and successful completion of complex projects (typically with significant business, political, or high-profile impact, and high-risk dependencies).
- Adopts and adapts project management methods and tools, selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches.
- Ensures that effective project control, change control, risk management and testing processes are maintained.
- Monitors and controls resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget and manages expectations of all project stakeholders.
Requirements definition and management
- Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for large, complex initiatives.
- Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Obtains input from, and formal agreement to, requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.
- Establishes requirements baselines.
- Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.
- Contributes to the development of organizational methods and standards.
Change implementation planning and management
- Ensures that there is a business perspective on how any new technical capabilities will be integrated into the business, including planning around key business cycles, selecting appropriate customers for migration, etc.
- Initiates the business implementation plan, including all the activities that the business needs to do to prepare for new technical components and technologies.
- Ensures sites deliver site implementation plans that align with the overall plan.
- Tracks and reports against these activities to ensure progress.
- Defines and manages the activities to ensure achievement of the projected business benefits after delivery.
- Outlines key business engagement messages that need to be communicated throughout the program/project.
Relationship management
- Ensures that there is a business perspective on how any new technical capabilities will be integrated into the business, including planning around key business cycles, selecting appropriate customers for migration, etc.
- Initiates the business implementation plan, including all the activities that the business needs to do to prepare for new technical components and technologies.
- Ensures sites deliver site implementation plans that align with the overall plan.
- Tracks and reports against these activities to ensure progress.
- Defines and manages the activities to ensure achievement of the projected business benefits after delivery.
- Outlines key business engagement messages that need to be communicated throughout the program/project.
People Management / Resource Management
- Responsible for salary reviews, recruitment, selection, assessment, on-boarding and transitioning of resources.
- Manages the effective implementation of resource planning, recruitment, selection, assessment, on-boarding and transitioning of resources.
- Advises on standards, methods, and tools for resource management.
- Ensures compliance with relevant statutory or external regulations and codes of good practice.
- Contributes to the development of resource management policies, standards, and guidelines and to audits and assessment of resource management processes.
- 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 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
- Market IT
- Strategic vendors like SAP, AWS
- Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
- HR Management
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- At least 10 years of experience in SAP license management with focus on structuring complex multiyear deals.
- At least 5 years of experience in structuring deals based on SAP RISE contracts
- Strong background in converting existing on premise deals in subscription deals
- Strong background in managing co-innovations with Vendors like SAP, AWS, ServiceNow
- 10+ Years of experience in managing Vendor-Client partnerships on Vendor side with solid knowledge of the process and proven value realization of co-innovations
- At least 10 Years of experience in managing complex retail go-lives on vendor side. Strong understanding of support options and well established network within SAP ecosystem is a big plus
- 10+ Years of experience in successful global roll outs implementations.
- Several successful SAP S4H roll outs is a big plus.
- 10 years of experience in team management including professional grade