Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

 

Are you enthusiastic about the prospect of translating data into actionable insights, while ensuring the business stays ahead with proactive sensing of the supply chain? If you're a businessperson with a background in supply chain and analytics, celebrated for your curious and analytical mindset, and are eager to make a real impact on the adidas supply chain, then look no further. The role of Senior Manager SC Business Insights is tailor-made for you!

As part of the Supply Chain Intelligence team, we are actively seeking an experienced Senior Manager Supply Chain Business Insights to provide insights and actions to improve performance or to solve tough business problems through detailed root cause analysis.  Ideal candidate needs to be able to build productive cross functional relationships to better understand and address business needs. If this is you, join us in shaping the future of supply chain excellence at adidas.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

Explore insights and trends with the goal of identifying improvements to business performance and inform decision-making. Collaborate with Business Intelligence reporting teams to create a comprehensive analysis of key Global SCM KPI’s, including providing input to target setting for SCM Executive KPIs Derive actionable insights pinpointing root causes and identifying opportunities for optimizing supply chain performance with clear data-driven tradeoffs. Identify, interpret, and communicated patterns and trends (including benchmarks) linked to key business drivers, transforming insights to actionable recommendations shared with key stakeholders. Continually consider and leverage additional dataset sources (including implemented advanced analytics tools & methodologies) to improve the quality of findings and insights. Facilitate with business stakeholders the definition of how performance is measured (KPIs), ensure standardization of the measurement and communicate in alignment with strategic direction and/or guidance. Initiate and drive discussions with x-functional stakeholders to collect and consolidate feedback, prepare, and align on actions / gameplan. Manage effective and timely communication on performance management based on an agreed drumbeat.

 

 

Key Relationships

 

Stakeholders can relate to the following core functions:

SCM – Global (e.g.  Global Availability & Inventory Management) SCM - Market Functions SCM - Strategy & Digital Solutions (e.g. Bus. Enablement (Head-Office, Learning & Development) Other Global functions (e.g. Global Sales)

 

 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

 

End-to-end mindset: Big picture view of problems on hand with ability to embrace innovation, challenge the status quo and drive change while anticipating and forecasting various scenarios, Collaborative style: Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels and build relationships with cross-functional collaborators and executives. Communication: At ease to spend a lot of time on communication with an ability to synthesize key results from data sets and present to technical and non-technical audiences, fluency in English. Personal Resilience: Celebrates successes, sees failure is an opportunity to learn and bounce back in face of difficulty. Analytical Skills: Strong analytical, diagnostic, and creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights. Detail-oriented but lives for efficiency. Cultural Sensitivity: Capability to navigate and work effectively across diverse cultures within a multinational context. Done is better than perfect: Someone who likes to talk enough about what needs to happen but is itching to get the job done. Navigates ambiguity turning complicated situations into doable tasks. Supply Chain Expertise: In-depth knowledge of supply chain operations, processes and KPIs. With understanding of industry best practices and trends in supply chain management.

 

 

Requisite Education and Qualifications  

 

Minimum 8+ years of relevant work experience in multinational environment Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, General Business, Analytics, or a related field. Masters preferred. Experience with data analytics, managing data from multiple sources and interpreting results Hands on experience of BI solutions with software’s such as Power BI Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Solid presentation and storytelling skills Good understanding of supply chain principles and operating practices, logistics terminology, basic finance, and management of cross functional interdependencies