Senior Project Manager CS BI & KPI - Consumer direct (m/f)

At adidas Group, our love of sport drives who we are and what we do. But just as a ball is more than leather and thread, and a shoe more than padding and plastic, we are bigger than our products. We don’t just work to create faster shoes and lighter fabrics: We strive to help athletes everywhere perform their best. We believe that it’s hard work inventing the future of sport, and that’s why we love it; that when you push your limits, you make it possible for others to push theirs.

At adidas Group, this drive it what connects us, whether we’re working for TaylorMade, adidas, Reebok, or Rockport. We’re all working toward a future motivated by passion, original thinking, and the desire to build upon a proud legacy.

Purpose & Function Description:

• The Corporate Solutions BI&KPI department is in charge of building and governing group-wide cross-functional BI solutions to connect perspectives and enable greater business insights & innovation

Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

• The position aims at taking the responsibility of BI projects servicing the markets and the Consumer Direct community, in particular supporting Store Operations and Merchandising.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering/Communication
• Partner with business and Senior Management within the assigned area of responsibility.
• Enable fact based decision making by creating transparency on gaps in the overall E2E reporting process
• Lead medium to large sized projects, implement results and ensure sustainability of achievements.
• Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations and solutions.

Innovation

• Create new and improved working methods for entire processes and systems.
• Design, develop and implement state of the art analytic tools.

Strategy

• Develop new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on the department and overall targets.
• Significantly contribute to the achievement of the department strategy.

Analysis / Reporting

• Identify improvement potential through variance analysis, derive solutions and facilitate related decisions.
• Manage & execute standardized reporting and ad hoc analysis.
• Provide solutions and facilitate decisions by structuring/analysing data and deriving the respective recommendations.

Functional Expertise

• Familiar with the Consumer Direct business model characteristics
• Strong interest in working with user-oriented IT tools for reporting and other analytics use
• Capability to take a project manager role, interacting with business stakeholders and with IT

People responsibility (if applicable)

• Coach and guide assigned/other team member

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Business Partnering/ Communication
• Comprehensive business understanding of processes and structure
• Result orientation and pro-activity
• High degree of customer orientation
• Ability to manoeuver in consistently changing environment
• Ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers
• Thorough understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics within an international company
• Experience in Project Management
• Excellent communication skills for influencing others

Strategy

• Ability to think and act strategically and develop operational strategy

Analysis /Reporting

• Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources

Knowledge

• Comprehensive understanding of data model landscape in BI
• Data Management methodologies
• Business fluency in English (written and spoken)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Relevant university degree; advanced degree or professional certification desirable
• 5-8 years of relevant working experience