Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

As a Manager for Payments you will be responsible for the end to end execution of projects in the Payments and Risk Management landscape. The key focus of this role will be to drive Digital Business growth by developing and implementing new payment and risk initiatives, including but not limited to project management and global payment options enhancement in key markets. A key lever to enable adidas’ future growth plans are excellent backend processes, with payments and risk management as core components.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads all payment related projects for the defined country in close collaboration with the business functions, IT, product teams and the markets.
• Responsible to drive prioritization and project requirements for key payment initiatives
• Based on the strategy, leads the business areas accountable for payments risk management projects, working closely with IT and functional areas to support development and delivery of the program.
• Liaise with markets to align best practice payments risk management approach and ensure solutions are delivered that meet business objectives.
• Support change management of payments risk management projects within the organization including documentation of knowledge/processes, in close collaboration with business stakeholders and change management team.
• Continuous monitoring of payments risk management results and industry developments to identify vulnerabilities and recommend improvements relevant to the regional focus

Key Relationships:

Payments Team, Digital Brand Commerce Teams, Market Retail and eCom teams, IT teams, Treasury, Finance, Profit Protection

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Project Management Extraordinaire: Lead and manage payment and risk projects, from conception to execution, ensuring successful delivery within defined timelines, budgets, and quality standards. You'll design detailed project plans, coordinate resources, and monitor project variables to implement corrective actions and deliver value by driving lasting results.
• Strong analytical skills: The successful candidate would have strong ability to manipulate data, question its validity, interpret it, and develop recommendations based on it.
• You are a collaborator. Enthusiastic personality with the ability to work well under pressure in an ever-changing environment.
• Ability to articulate fact-based strategies and drive their execution
• Comfortable in managing through ambiguous situations, self-driven, and works well independently or within a group
• Experienced in managing relationships at all levels within an organization
• Fluent in English
• Additional languages are an advantage

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree and/or commercial training in the area of business administration, computer science, Engineering or related areas
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive work experience in delivering projects with hands-on project management experience as a lead or PMO.