We are seeking a professional with deep expertise in the European Order Fulfillment Wholesale business process area for the TRANS4RM Rollout in Europe. In this role, you will represent the entire business functional area and assume accountability for identifying and bridging gaps between the current operational systems and processes and the future TRANS4RM operational template. Your leadership will be pivotal in harmonizing, standardizing, and elevating future processes during the rollout within your designated business process area. Moreover, you will assume a critical role in conveying best practices, ensuring the acceptance of solutions and granting approval for the market's future state.

The ideal candidate is a Business Process and Systems Expert with a deep understanding of business processes within the Europe Order Fulfillment area. Your expertise lies in swiftly identifying similarities and gaps between the current 'as-is' processes and the envisioned 'to-be' processes, enabling effective collaboration with relevant experts and seeking their input efficiently. This skill set is fundamental for steering effective decision-making and ensuring the successful implementation of TRANS4RM.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation: 
The TRANS4RM program aims to equip adidas with a future-ready enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with built-in intelligent technologies, including data driven AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. With the TRANS4RM Business Transformation we are creating the digital foundation from which we will deliver a premium customer and consumer experience across all channels (Wholesale, Retail, eCom). This role will be part of the 24-36-month transformation program and support implementation of the new ERP system, SAP S/4 HANA for Market Europe (3 clusters – 8 zones – 29 countries) within the respective workstream area. 

 
Key Responsibilities and General Accountabilities:

Ownership of Business Processes:
•    Take ownership of Order Fulfillment processes > across Market Europe – bring current process expertise and conduct future process gap analysis.
•    Drive final decision for the TRANS4RM template (future template sign off).
Alignment with Business Objectives:
•    Ensure that business objectives and critical needs are fully supported and harmonized with the future operational set up.
Overall project support
•    Support the workstream lead to set function/workstream objectives, develop detailed work breakdown structures with concrete activities, milestones, roles and responsibilities and defined KPIs.
•    Support business case creation for Global Template Deviation for < Order Fulfillment processes
Information Gathering and Gap Analysis:
•    Collaborate closely with the Business Assessment team to gather comprehensive as-is information, act as process expert and lead in collecting and ensuring the right feedback from other team members.
•    Gain an in-depth comprehension of the to-be model, identifying market-specific process gaps, operational requirements, and business needs.
Feedback and Impact Assessment:
•    Provide sophisticated feedback on business operations and assess the impact of market processes and operations due to change TRANS4RM brings.
Engagement with Local Experts:
•    Engage and consult with local subject matter experts and key users as needed.
Harmonization and Standardization:
•    Lead harmonization, standardization, and process improvement efforts during roll-out.
Market-to-Be Solutions:
•    Sign off on market-to-be solutions, including design and configuration.
Transition planning, risk mitigation and temporary process definition: 
•    Evaluate & identify areas within Order Fulfillment that will be impacted in a phased go live.
•    Anticipate potential losses and develop proactive strategies for mitigation. Collaborate with relevant department to design and implement temporary processes when needed. 

Key Relationships:
•    Europe CS&D team
•    Europe TRANS4RM team
•    Global TRANS4RM team
•    Business Process Owners
•    Key Users 
•    Cluster and Zones teams’ operational business experts 
•    TRANS4RM Tech team 
•    SAP Consultants 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 
•    Deep knowledge of current Europe business processes in Order Fulfillment
•    Ability to make decisions for TRANS4RM future template sign-off.
•    Experience in project management, objective definition and KPI development.
•    Proficiency in supporting Business Case creation for respective Workstream.
•    Strong stakeholder management skills
•    Experience in process harmonization and improvement.
•    Ability to think strategically as well as tactically, think out of the box mentality. 
•    Implicit drive for (internal) consumer obsession 
•    Result orientation and pro-active (engaging & impact-oriented) mindset, ability to think end-to-end with a market/ global mindset
•    Strong organization skills 
•    Ability to work in a challenging environment with different international cultures. 
•    Ability to be self-directed while working under tight deadlines. 
•    International mind-set and English fluency.

Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
•    Degree in Business Administration, Management, or related areas.
•    Deep understanding of the CS&D Europe organization.
•    Minimum of 5+ years of work experience in Order Fulfillment, with experience in process management or process improvement.