Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The role of the Technology Consultant is responsible for the planning, installing and for the
configuration of software solutions and systems. It is capable to support employees with specific
applications and provides expert advisory. The role analyzes information systems of adidas and
individualizes specific system solutions to meet the demand of the business.
Key Responsibilities:
Specialist advice
• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the
organization’s planning and operations.
• Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
• Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate
to the needs of the organization.
Business analysis
• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective
business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of
new or changed processes.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from
investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for
consideration.
• Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for
consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
• Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects,
selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile)
approaches.

Requirements definition and management
• Contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately
from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for
initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective
prioritization of requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and
ensures traceability to source.
• Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined
requirements, in line with change management policy.
Porting/software configuration
• Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platformspecific versions of one or more software products.
• Documents faults, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.
Application support
• Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures.
• Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
• Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.
If required: People Management / Resource Management:
• Is involved in recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decision and pre-selection of
candidates
• Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity,
workload, and organizational efficiency
• Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the
support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes
to meet business needs.
• Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with
business needs and GIT objectives

Key Relationships:
• Global IT
• Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
• HR Management
• Controlling

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
• our-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related
areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Proficient spoken and written command of English
• At least 7-year experience in IT
• 5 years of experience in relevant area
• 2 years of experience in team management
• Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the
respective customer
• Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects