Join adidas Europe and shape the future! For over 75 years, our European heritage has been a fusion of culture and innovation, driving global sports trends. Our offices, from Herzogenaurach to London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Athens, Milan, Manchester and Paris, are centers of creativity and collaboration. We aim to be Europe's best sports brand, seeking pioneers and visionaries to join our bold journey. At adidas, you're not just getting a job; you're invited to make a global impact, joining a team that values creativity, courage and innovation. Are you ready to be part of our journey?Join adidas Europe and shape the future! For over 75 years, our European heritage has been a fusion of culture and innovation, driving global sports trends. Our offices, from Herzogenaurach to London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Athens, Milan, Manchester and Paris, are centers of creativity and collaboration. We aim to be Europe's best sports brand, seeking pioneers and visionaries to join our bold journey. At adidas, you're not just getting a job; you're invited to make a global impact, joining a team that values creativity, courage and innovation. Are you ready to be part of our journey?

Purpose:
Team is a part of Supply Chain Development EU and responsible for everything connected with analytics, insights. Our goal is to ensure fact base, data driven and forward-looking decision making to reach performance excellence in e2e consumer experience in the most efficient way.  We cover e2e SCM for eCom; retail; wholesale and almost all aspects from operations to financial KPIs. We define KPIs, set performance objectives, support execution, analyse data, create visibility, provide insights, investigate root causes, prevent risks, build roadmaps and improvements strategy, likewise we support new initiatives, provide scenario-based simulations and projections to drive improvements across the entire supply chain organization and wide range of adjacent functions.

You in the role:
In this role you’ll be a strong contributor to day-to-day continuous improvement and performance excellence with main aim to reach seamless consumer experience in the most efficient way. You will act through driving deep analyses, providing insights, identify performance gaps and root causes, defining KPIs. actions to improve performance and enabling reporting visibility to track progress. All this goes with strong collaboration and stakeholder management across dozens market and global teams.

Ideal candidate needs to be a:

• Mixture of “can do” and target oriented approach with strong analytical mind set
• Fast learner with unstoppable curiosity, ability and desire to think e2e and beyond
• Consumer oriented with understanding of commercial and SCM worlds
• Out of the box thinker to create/lead/manage data/people/processes to achieve results in the unknown.
   

Key Responsibilities:

• Performing day to day operational flow assessment and in close collaboration with stakeholders analyze performance gaps, root causes, initiate right actions to improve and following-up on them
• Manage effective and timely communication on DTC performance management, support Global OTIF cadence
• Identify, interpret, and share patterns and trends (including benchmarks) to key business drivers; turn findings into actionable recommendations to influence key stakeholders
• Provide actionable insights with associated root causes, enabling decisions to drive performance improvement, key structural opportunities in OTIF, COTIF and other KPI’s while mitigating risks
• Ensuring with key stakeholders of flawless, timely execution of defined actions, system enhancements, new services implementation etc. escalate where needed
• Define, design, create, validate KPI’s and RCA’s reports and dashboards in alignment with the different stakeholders (business functions and SLT)
• Pro-actively review and identify reporting requirements, needs and opportunities to fully capture and fulfill market needs
• Support reporting automation and enhancements to gain efficiencies in daily usage, perform testing of the new reports/ functionalities
• Provide expertise on existing reporting solutions, create documentation for KPI’s and RCA’s logic and provide trainings to EU SCM functions
• Support specific projects undertaken within SCD through data gathering, analysis, report development, presentations

Key Relationships: 

• EU SCM (all functions)
• EU Market (commercial functions)  
• Global Supply Chain Control Tower
• Global D&A and Advanced Analytics
• EU SCM Finance

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

Soft skills:

• “Can-do” attitude
• Self-starter with an ability to work under tight deadlines
• Extremely organized and stay cool in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• End-to-end mindset, big picture view of problems on hand
• A star in prioritizing based on business and operational impact
• Strong team player with strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to effectively communicate (both written and verbal) at different levels of the organization and to lead discussions in small and larger groups.
• Change management skills of influencing network of stakeholders
• Engaging, open and react to feedbacks and improve

 
Hard skills:

• Excellent analytical skills, managing data from multiple sources and synthesize the complex data to develop innovative solutions
• Hands on experience of SQL and BI Solutions (Power BI, MicroStrategy or similar)
• Advanced MS office skills
• Scenarios based business models creation
• Good understanding of supply chain processes
• Solid presentation and data storytelling skills
• Good knowledge of project management principles and methodologies / Lean Six Sigma is a plus

Requisite Education and Qualifications:  

• Good knowledge of English (spoken and written)
• 2+ years of relevant work experience
• Proven track record of data analytics (operational/financial)
• Master’s degree or equivalent in supply chain management or in the areas of business administration, logistics, planning, information systems from an accredited college or university
• Good understanding of supply chain principles and operating practices, logistics terminology, basic finance, and cross functional interdependencies