Expires soon Adidas Group

Process Manager - Source to Pay

  • Porto (Porto)
  • Project / Product management

Job description

Country: Portugal
Job Function: Sourcing

State / Province: Portugal
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Porto
Brand: adidas

Relocation:

Somewhere, in one of our workshops right now, the future is taking shape. We are constantly working to redefine the way clothing and footwear transforms the pitch, court or course. This is what drives us: the feeling of discovery and the urge to innovate. When we create a product that makes our hearts beat faster, we know we’re onto something.

If this sounds inspiring, you might be one of us: Someone who loves to create the present, as well as shape the future. There’s a reason adidas has been at the forefront of defining sport for more than 60 years: We never stand still. Everyday, we work to improve everything we create.

At adidas, interesting, amazing and inspiring aren’t just ideas. They are what we do every single day.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

The Process Excellence teams in GBS (Global Business Services) are responsible for driving the functional design of services and standard solutions, and supporting their implementation. They will also upskill, train and develop the continuous improvement capability of GBS overall, as well as in market and functional teams. They will be concerned with ensuring quality, compliance and productivity of the services and processes provided by GBS, managing continuous improvement initiatives and shaping the digital solution agenda.

The Global Process Manager will design and project manage the build of the solution, as well as acting as a subject matter expert on the sub-process to support its transition from the function, channel or market into the GBS delivery centres.

Key Responsibilities:

· Support the implementation of the solution roadmap for the relevant process domain
· Support the development and coordination to agree KPIs for the service (with both the customer and the oprerations organization)
· Support the development of solution and system requirements to enable design and build
· Ensure compliance of sub-process solution against the overall solution governance framework
· Implement continuous improvement iniatives
· Support the transition of activities and ensure knowledge retention
· Act as a subject matter expert in a (sub-)process area

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

· Detailed understanding of a Global Business Services sub-process and the reality of operating it as service
· Experience in process design and process mapping, ideally within Shared Services
· Familiarity with project management and lean six sigma approaches, tools and phases of project lifecycle
· Experience of RPA and digital transformation
· Experience of solution governance (incl. build of enterprise model, functional advice for process content), data for the end-to-end solution and prioritising demand
· Experience in designing for and improving process quality, process review and compliance
· Strong numerical and analytical skills
· High degree of customer orientation
· Ability to travel, domestic or international, as required
· Fluent English (verbal and written),
· Strong MS-Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), proficient in MS Office

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

· Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration, or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
· Minimum of 3-5 years of progressive work experience in the operational delivery of the relevant end-to-end process / these services

Ideally some experience of process design and improvement

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