Adidas DIRECTOR FP & SCM 

Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City 

885464056

Finance Director SCM,you will focus on:

• Ensure transparency of Supply Chain cost and service levels across all GCA markets as one of regional clusters within SCM
• Partner with the business to visualize impact and dependencies of core cost and service drivers enabling best practice sharing and fact-based decision making
• Actively drive Supply Chain strategy development and implementation through leading all business case developments for GCA
• Benchmark (both external and internal) in all key KPIs and build transparency on GCA efficiency

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive execution of SCM strategy to improve end-to-end group performance, cost and service levels.
• Overall responsibility for the financial controlling of all logistic cost related to the Supply Chain Management (SCM) within GCA (including all warehouses).
• Proactively drive transparency on cost and cost drivers of the Supply Chain through cost management of the assigned budget by supervising budget process and forecast, reporting actual costs, explaining cost deviations, and identifyingpotentialsavings as part of cost saving initiatives.
• Act as a business partner, e.g. by ensuring financial but also non-financial managers are provided top notch and highly accurate information for analysis for their business decisions.
• Manage business case development of Supply Chain projects and investments by challenging, identifying and quantifying improvement potential; cascading business cases into project budgets including project budget controlling support and business case target follow-up (full project life-cycle support); and enabling one-stop shopping for consistency.
• Drive the development and continuous enhancement ofbalanced Key Performance Indicators, ensuring transparency on business performance drivers and building sustainable“performance management culture” within the Supply Chain Organization.
• Lead by example cross-functional collaboration.
• Manage (build, develop, coach, motivate and lead) a strong, diversified team; facilitate and foster continuous learning environment for the team which enables team members to perform.
• Identify requirements and further develop methods for advanced budgeting, forecasting and performance tracking; establish a benchmarking process; and deepen knowledge and understanding of industry trends.

Key Relationships:

• SVP SCM GCAandSCM senior leadership team
• SVP GCA CFO, VP GCA FP&A and finance senior leadership team
• Global SCM Finance and GOPS Teams
• SCM finance head office and regional teams
• GCA SCM and FIN HR

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Strong business partnering skillset
• Excellent analytical skills in order to synthesize complex data and develop innovative solutions
• Excellent communication skills in order to negotiate with internal and/or external parties with possible divergent interests and with different business areas
• Strong result orientation and pro-activity with a high degree of customer orientationwith finance integrity and independence
• Ability to coach, guide, manage, and develop a team
• Advanced project management skills
• Solid knowledge of end-to-end supply chains
• Good understanding of performance management methods and improvement tools such as Balanced Scorecard, SCOR, SixSigma, Activity-Based-Costing et al
• Advanced user skills in SAP, Business Intelligence (SAP BW,Power BI etc.)
• Advanced MS Office skills, especially MS Excel
• Enjoy working in a dynamic and ambitious multinational team
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Possess a strong set of skills acquired through advanced training, study and experience
• Broad & deep knowledge in own functional area, combining with broad knowledge of other areas

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degreein Business Administration / Finance or Accounting/ Economics / Logistics
• 7+ years of work experience in finance or analysis related field; alternatively, 5+ years of relevant Performance/ Management, finance business partner role or FP&A experience is an advantage; 3+ years of experience managing a team
• Knowledge of fast-moving consumer goods, fashion industry and/or retail is an advantage