Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Technology Analyst is the PMO and AI-enablement anchor of the Tech Finance LAM team, which owns the invoicing, e-invoicing and fiscal compliance landscape across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Peru. The role strengthens how the team plans, governs and delivers its project portfolio through an AI-driven management approach, using agents, automation and data in place of manual coordination and reporting, which gives the team more visibility, predictability and delivery capacity. It works closely with the Director and the country owners to turn strategy into an organized, measurable and transparent execution model.

Key Responsibilities:

Project & Portfolio Management (PMO)

• Leads the Tech Finance LAM portfolio governance: demand intake, prioritization, planning, status reporting, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Defines, implements and continuously improves the team’s delivery framework: templates, project cadence, steering committee materials, RAID logs and lessons learned.
• Supports country owners and GBS/SAP initiatives with planning, milestone tracking and cross-domain coordination, such as e-invoicing provider migrations and fiscal compliance changes.
• Tracks portfolio budget, vendor contracts, purchase orders and invoices in partnership with Controlling and Procurement.
• Produces consolidated, decision-ready reporting for the Director and leadership: portfolio dashboards, KPIs and executive summaries.

AI-Driven Management & Automation

• Designs and runs AI-powered management processes: automated status consolidation, portfolio health reporting, risk alerts, and meeting and action-item tracking.
• Builds AI agents and automations that give the team and leadership real-time visibility into projects, vendors and key indicators.
• Rapidly prototypes internal tools and dashboards using AI-assisted development (“vibe-coding”), low-code platforms and LLM tooling, and partners with Engineering to scale validated solutions.
• Identifies manual, repetitive management activities across the team and proposes AI-based alternatives that free capacity for value-adding work.
• Ensures AI solutions follow adidas governance on data protection, security (InfoSec) and responsible AI use.

Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Leads the investigation of needs, problems and opportunities across finance and fiscal processes, and recommends improvements in automated and non-automated components.
• Elicits, specifies and documents requirements for medium to complex subject areas, including multi-country fiscal requirements.
• Owns requirements baselines and manages change requests in line with change management policy.
• Defines acceptance criteria and coordinates testing (SIT/UAT) with business and vendors.

Key Relationships:

• Tech Finance LAM country owners (Mexico & Panama, Argentina & Chile, Colombia & Peru, Brazil) and the GBS/SAP lead
• Other LAM Tech domains (Digital, SCM, Retail, Engineering, Service Management, Infrastructure, InfoSec, PMO)
• Global Tech and Global Finance Technology
• Business functions: Finance, Tax/Fiscal, Controlling, Accounting, GBS
• External partners: e-invoicing and fiscal providers, system integrators and AI/technology vendors

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Four-year college or university degree in IT, Engineering, Business Administration or related areas, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• At least 3 years of experience in IT, including at least 1 year in PMO, project management or project coordination
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools to real business problems: LLMs, AI agents, prompt engineering and AI-assisted coding (“vibe-coding”)
• Solid knowledge of project management practices (Agile and Waterfall/hybrid) and tools such as Jira, Confluence and MS Project
• Data and reporting skills: Excel/Power BI or similar; SQL or Python desirable
• Proficient spoken and written English and Spanish; Portuguese desirable
• Desirable: exposure to finance/ERP systems (SAP), invoicing/e-invoicing and LATAM fiscal compliance (CFDI, NF-e, DTE, etc.)
• Desirable: PMP, CAPM, PRINCE2, Scrum or SAFe certification; AI or automation certifications

Key Competencies:

• AI-first mindset: “can this be automated or augmented?” is the default question
• Structured, organized and detail-oriented, while comfortable with ambiguity
• Builder attitude: prototypes fast, tests and iterates
• Strong communication and storytelling for leadership audiences
• Ownership, autonomy and ability to influence without formal authority
• Regional, multicultural collaboration mindset