Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Global Business Services (GBS) designs, builds, and operates consistent end-to-end business solutions for adidas, delivering services in the areas of finance, non-trade procurement, and human resources. This drives operating efficiency, better customer experience, company agility, and decision-making, and ensures a compliance and control environment. This is enabled through consistent end-to-end processes, strong, globally consistent governance of solutions and services, state-of-the-art technology and tools, creativity, and continuous improvement.
This role focuses on delivering ad-hoc and periodic operational reports, which play a key role in strategic planning and allow adidas (GBS) to gather, store, access, and analyze business data to inform decision-making. Additionally, the role involves the supervision of a team, that executes BI programs across markets, in response to business needs. The teams perform detailed data analysis, implement dashboards and ensure decision support systems are in place that best serve the business in their decision-making, whilst adhering to Standards, policy, and legislation. The role reports to the Performance management and reporting delivery leader.
Key Responsibilities:
* Set targets for the direct reports and manage the performance & development of the team.
* Lead a global team and create a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are challenged, coached, trained, and provided with career opportunities.
* Create an environment that drives the teams to execution excellence.
* Enable fact-based decision-making when it comes to timing and changes in the GBS roadmap.
* Leads design and build of automated reporting and dashboards to track business performance metrics.
* Lead the consolidated service performance review of all GBS Centers and processes globally.
* In collaboration with Global Process Leads develop measurement and reporting mechanisms for appropriate operational and financial metrics (KPIs, SLAs, etc.) to be tracked and measured.
* In alignment with the Global Performance and Process Excellence standards, develop, implement, and evolve a strategic process performance and management framework to mature E2E process performance.
Key Relationships:
* GBS Leadership team
* Global Process Owners
* Operations teams in centers
* Global Delivery Excellence team
* IT Platform Engineering team
* GBS Transition Team
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :
* Comprehensive understanding of the E2E processes operated by Global Business Services and their main metrics.
* Strong data acumen and experience with reporting systems, able to model and analyze complex data sets.
* Excellent collaboration skills, ability to influence without authority, and work effectively in a matrix organization.
* Focused on delivery of results through effective planning and solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.
* Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams.
* Ability to work and deliver in changing environments, under limited guidance while adhering to specified deadlines.
* Ability to think strategically, synthesize complex situations and develop innovative solutions within a changing environment.
* Knowledge of the performance measurement function and practices
* Excellent project management skills and experience
* Ability to guide teams in a trustful and proficient manner.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
* 6+ years of experience demonstrating progressive responsibility in roles focused on driving service excellence through the application of analytics.
* The successful candidate will have experience in business-level reporting, complex data mining, and analysis as well as data visualization.
* Preferably have implemented Performance Management System (e.g., Balanced Scorecard) in a large organization.
* Preferably experience working in Agile/Product lead organization.
* University degree or equivalent experience
AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.
* COURAGE:Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
* OWNERSHIP:Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
* INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
* TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
* INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company’s standards.
* RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.
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