At adidas, we have a clear purpose: “Through sport, we have the power to change lives.” This guiding principle shapes how we operate as a company, how we collaborate with our partners, how we create our products, and how we connect with our consumers. Our values represent essential behaviors and mindsets, reflecting the “You Got This” attitude we strive to see in every team member. 

This same purpose and mindset are at the heart of Global Business Services (GBS) the team that delivers consistent, end-to-end business solutions across adidas. By driving process excellence and operational efficiency, GBS enables our partners to focus on what matters most: creating impact. 

Non-Trade Procurement in a GBS is responsible for managing and procuring indirect goods and services needed to support business operations, ensuring standardized processes, cost control, policy compliance, and effective supplier management across the organization.   

Key Responsibilities: 

• Managing a team of professionals responsible for five main aspects of the Procurement process: Purchase and Invoice Management, Supplier and internal Customer support, Meetings & Events, Purchase Compliance and Fieldglass management.   

• Set goals, adhere to the agreed SLAs towards the business partners, provide guidance and support, and foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment.  

• Work with your teams to identify and mitigate risks associated with the Procurement process and policies (Global Non-Trade Procurement policy and Contingent Workforce Policy). This includes implementing controls to prevent fraud, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and establishing robust internal audit processes.  

• Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the Procurement process. Analyze data and generate reports to provide insights for decision-making and continuous improvement.  

• Support other regional Hubs and outsourced activities by managing issues that arise, recommending and making improvements to avoid similar issues in the future. Provide trouble shooting, and data analysis to the team.  

Key Relationships: 

• Source-to-contract 

• Finance Directors 

• Internal Controls & Compliance 

• Global Non-Trade Procurement 

• Global Teams to ensure alignment and coordination across different functions.   

Knowledge, Skills and leadership : 

EXCEL 
• Live your passion for the brand: Acts as a confident brand ambassador, spreading enthusiasm for adidas, its culture, products, and consumers. shares brand updates, understand diverse consumer needs and adapts accordingly. 

• Act like it’s your own company: Balances global strategy with local needs, aligns team goals, seeks process improvements, and drives sustainable growth and profitability. 

• Think Bigger and Beyond: Anticipates change, embraces ambiguity, and encourages innovation. Supports calculated risks, challenges the status quo, and drives continuous improvement. 

EMPOWER 
• Build a diverse team & foster inclusion: Creates diverse, high-performing teams in an inclusive, fair environment. Encourages open dialogue, values different perspectives, and celebrates individual and team achievements 
• Engage and inspire: Connects and energizes the team with clear vision and motivating communication. Guides through challenges and promotes well-being and resilience. 

• Develop talent: Iidentifies and creates development opportunities, provides fair access to growth, and fosters a culture of trust and continuous feedback. 

ELEVATE 
• Deliver results: Sets clear, achievable goals, prioritizes value-driven actions, ensures resources, and exemplifies a hands-on mentality to overcome challenges. 

• Promote accountability: Owns decisions with transparency, communicates expectations clearly, addresses conflicts constructively, and takes confident actions, even in challenging situations. 

• Continue to grow yourself: Seeks feedback, reflects to increase self-awareness, embraces a learning mindset, and pursues growth beyond the comfort zone while promoting development within the team.  

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: 

• University degree in Commerce/Business Administration/Finance/ Controlling or similar.  

• Minimum of 8 years of progressive work experience in the operational delivery of these services, ideally in a shared service center, with leadership experience of an organization of similar scale and complexity of services. 

• Comprehensive understanding of E2E-processes for Procurement operated by GBS, including the systems used to support it (SAP, Ariba).  

• Excellent communication, people management and change management skills as well as ability to manage relationships professionally.  

• Excellent English language proficiency, spoken and written.  

• Ability to coach, guide and manage a team in a fast-paced environment with different international cultures.  

• Solid interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation that can navigate easily within complex organizations, connect with a variety functions, audiences, management styles, or cultures.  

• Highly results driven and self-motivated team player.  

• Growth mindset, keen to learn and approach subjects outside of comfort zone.