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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:

Technical Architect provides architecture design and governance for BI solutions. He/she is a key element to implement a cultural change for the BI service portfolio looking end-to-end by transforming the BI strategy “Creating the New BI”. The role will focus to support fulfilling the growing demand for extended BI Solutions and provide key skills for BI areas mobile, go-to-Market, operational reporting and analytics.

Technical Architect specifies and designs Business Intelligence systems to meet defined business needs utilizing state of the art design patterns to implement the best solutions.

Technical Architect is responsible for the identification of concepts through the eyes of the user and their translation into implementable design, the design or selection of components, the retention of compatibility with enterprise and solution architectures, and the adherence to corporate standards within constraints of cost, security and sustainability.

Key Responsibilities:

BI Platform governance

<ul>
	<li>Providing BI advisory services by contributing to feasibility study in partnership with business counterparts during the project assessment phase for small-size changes.</li>
	<li>Performs quality reviews on key project milestones according to defined governance rules and quality gates in partnership with onshore or offshore delivery leads for small- and mid-size projects.</li>
	<li>Develops or manages development of automated governance tools e.g. quality gates checks.</li>
	<li>Regularly executes system’s health checks with available and developed governance tools ensuring BI platform sustainability.</li>
</ul>

Solution Architecture

<ul>
	<li>Contributes to the solution architecture of small- and mid-size applications in one or more functional areas. Delivers designs for Operational/Management/Analytical applications with compliance to Global BI guidelines, standards, considering Mobile culture, ensuring global system stability and security.</li>
	<li>Uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business or functional areas.</li>
	<li>Produces detailed component specifications and translates these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products.</li>
	<li>Within a business change program, assists in the preparation of technical plans and cooperates with business assurance and project staff to ensure that appropriate technical solutions are made available.</li>
	<li>Provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.</li>
</ul>

Technical Knowledge

<ul>
	<li>Maintains knowledge of technical specialization, provides detailed advice regarding BI solution architecture and executes specialized tasks.</li>
	<li>The specialization can be in any layer of BI technological stack with a focus on a backend data warehousing, database modelling or frontend technology (currently SAP BW, SAP HANA, Microstrategy).</li>
</ul>

Requirements definition and management

<ul>
	<li>Defines scope and business priorities for small-scale changes and may assist in larger scale scoping exercises.</li>
	<li>Elicits and discovers requirements from operational management and other stakeholders.</li>
	<li>Selects appropriate techniques for the elicitation of detailed requirements taking into account the nature of the required changes, established practice and the characteristics and culture of those providing the requirements.</li>
	<li>Specifies and documents business requirements as directed, ensuring traceability back to source.</li>
	<li>Analyses them for adherence to business objectives and for consistency, challenging positively as appropriate.</li>
	<li>Works with stakeholders to prioritize requirements.</li>
</ul>

Data Analysis

<ul>
	<li>Applies data analysis, data modelling, and quality assurance techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of business processes, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).</li>
	<li>Advises application development team members on the details of data structures and associated components.</li>
</ul>

Systems Design

<ul>
	<li>Specifies user/system interfaces, and translates logical designs into physical designs taking account of target environment, performance requirements and existing systems.</li>
	<li>Produces detailed designs and documents all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.</li>
	<li>Delivers technical visualization of proposed applications for approval by customer and execution by system developers.</li>
</ul>

Individual responsibilities

<ul>
	<li>Plays a role of master data application owner for one or more master data domain, acts as a SPOC for IT and Business partners covering all topics related to the domain.</li>
	<li>Contributes to One Version of the Truth by acting as a quality gate keeper for one or more BI-as-a-Service (BIaaS) areas in partnership with IT teams in the markets.</li>
	<li>Maintains up-to-date Global BI data dictionary in partnership with Business counterparts.</li>
</ul>

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

<ul>
	<li>Strong level of Data warehouse design and development OR Business intelligence frontend development. Experience with in-memory technology. Products in focus – SAP BW, SAP HANA, Microstrategy.</li>
	<li>English language (fluent)</li>
	<li>Acquiring a proper understanding of a problem or situation by breaking it down systematically into its component parts and identifying the relationships between these parts, selecting the appropriate method/tool to resolve the problem and reflecting on the result.</li>
	<li>Identifying gaps in the available information required to understand a problem or situation and devising means of remedying such gaps.</li>
	<li>Understanding the needs of the internal or external customer and keeping them in mind when taking actions or making decisions</li>
	<li>Being proactive, taking action and anticipating opportunities.</li>
	<li>Applying quality standards to all tasks undertaken and ensuring that nothing is overlooked.</li>
	<li>Communicating effectively by word of mouth.</li>
	<li>Communicating effectively in writing and via emails.</li>
	<li>Working co-operatively (rather than competitively) with others to achieve a common goal.</li>
	<li>Four-year college or university degree (B.Sc.) with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience</li>
	<li>5+ years IT experience. At least 2+ in Solution or Technical / Software Architecture</li>
</ul>

We’re looking forward to receiving your application!

Technical Architect BI (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.

adidas Manufacturing Innovation FW

Do you have the ambition to go ‘all in’ and apply your skills towards innovating high-performance sports product? Can you drive cross functional projects by employing excellent organisational skills and attention to detail? Do you want to help shape the future of sport by helping to shape the way we make product? Are you interested in providing the consumers of the future a new way to experience the adidas brand through your technical expertise? Have you ever dreamed about applying your potential to create high level sport products for yourself, for your friends, or the world’s top athletes?

The adidas Manufacturing Innovation team is currently looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals wanting to join us as we revolutionise the industry. Through an exciting new brand initiative we want to hire the best talents to join our newly created adiLab team (adidas Manufacturing Innovation Lab) in our effort to disrupt the way we manufacture our product. The adidas Manufacture Innovation team is a collaborative group of dedicated teams focused on footwear manufacturing innovation projects, driven to create the best for the Brand and the athlete.As an adiLab team member you will become an active player in the adidas brand and will experience a unique opportunity to apply your competence towards advanced company projects.

Role Purpose &amp; Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Enable market leading concepts, components and products by developing and optimizing innovative materials and processing systems

Key Responsibilities:

<ul>
	<li>Develop relationships with external partners to ensure processes meet project objectives</li>
	<li>Set targets and drive improvement of systems for maintaining quality materials and components from machine processes</li>
	<li>Design initiatives to optimize assembly plant processing systems for throughput, cost, and sustainability</li>
	<li>Facilitate scale-up from prototype-level material processing lines to production-scale systems</li>
	<li>Identify and collaborate with external partners to develop programs that monitor the health of individual processes on existing and new production lines</li>
	<li>Oversee initialization of new assembly lines, ensuring individual bonding, knitting, foaming, and polymer welding processes run within specification</li>
	<li>Educate and train colleagues by sharing knowledge on an on-going basis</li>
	<li>Prepare concept and results-based reports and presentations, communicating to technical and non-technical audiences</li>
	<li>Stay connected to relevant current and upcoming research, technologies, methods, and industry trends. Build an effective information network</li>
	<li>Identify and partner with industry-leading organizations to extend the capability of the team</li>
	<li>Consider legal implications of innovative concepts, working with the legal team to protect product, technology, innovation, process, and design</li>
</ul>

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

<ul>
	<li>Curiosity for science and engineering along with a passion for making insights in the field of sport</li>
	<li>University degree in a relevant field</li>
	<li>10 years of working experiences</li>
	<li>Fluent English (required), German (advantageous)</li>
	<li>Communicate and negotiate effectively</li>
	<li>Cooperate well, develop and maintain relationships</li>
	<li>Work independently as well as part of a team</li>
	<li>Plan working time efficiently, balancing short term tasks with long term goals</li>
	<li>Strong analytical skills, solution driven and result oriented</li>
	<li>Ability to travel domestically and internationally</li>
</ul>

Director adiLab/aMIL - Process Engineering (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 &amp; Function Description:

<ul>
	<li>The Corporate Solutions BI&amp;KPI department is in charge of building and governing group-wide cross-functional BI solutions to connect perspectives and enable greater business insights &amp; innovation</li>
</ul>

Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

<ul>
	<li>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.</li>
</ul>

Key Responsibilities:

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

Innovation

<ul>
	<li>Create new and improved working methods for entire processes and systems.</li>
	<li>Design, develop and implement state of the art analytic tools.</li>
</ul>

Strategy

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

Analysis / Reporting

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

Functional Expertise

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

People responsibility (if applicable)

<ul>
	<li>Coach and guide assigned/other team member</li>
</ul>

Knowledge, Skills &amp; Abilities:

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

Strategy

<ul>
	<li>Ability to think and act strategically and develop operational strategy</li>
</ul>

Analysis /Reporting

<ul>
	<li>Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources</li>
</ul>

Knowledge

<ul>
	<li>Comprehensive understanding of data model landscape in BI</li>
	<li>Data Management methodologies</li>
	<li>Business fluency in English (written and spoken)</li>
</ul>

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

<ul>
	<li>Relevant university degree; advanced degree or professional certification desirable</li>
	<li>5-8 years of relevant working experience</li>
</ul>

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