Specialist Performance Excellence

Job Description

Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization

- Global Business Services (GBS) designs, builds, and operates consistent end-to-end business solutions for adidas, delivering services in the areas of finance, non-trade procurement, and human resources.
- This drives operating efficiency, better customer experience, company agility, and decision-making, and ensures a compliance and control environment.
- This is enabled through consistent end-to-end processes, strong, globally consistent governance of solutions and services, state-of-the-art technology and tools, creativity, and continuous improvement.
- This role focuses on delivering ad-hoc and periodic operational reports, which play a key role in strategic planning and allow adidas (GBS) to gather, store, access, and analyze business data to inform decision-making.
- Additionally, the role involves the supervision of a team, that executes BI programs across markets, in response to business needs.
- The teams perform detailed data analysis, implement dashboards, and ensure decision support systems are in place that best serve the business in their decision-making, whilst adhering to Standards, policy, and legislation.
- The role reports to the Performance management and reporting delivery leader.

Key Responsibilities

- Set targets for the direct reports and manage the performance & development of the team.
- Lead a global team and create a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are challenged, coached, trained, and provided with career opportunities.
- Create an environment that drives the teams to execution excellence.
- Enable fact-based decision-making when it comes to timing and changes in the GBS roadmap.
- Leads design and build of automated reporting and dashboards to track business performance metrics.
- Lead the consolidated service performance review of all GBS Centers and processes globally.
- In collaboration with Global Process Leads, develop measurement and reporting mechanisms for appropriate operational and financial metrics (KPIs, SLAs, etc.) to be tracked and measured.
- In alignment with the Global Performance and Process Excellence standards, develop, implement, and evolve a strategic process performance and management framework to mature E2E process performance.

Key Relationships

- GBS Leadership team
- Global Process Owners
- Operations teams in centers
- Global Delivery Excellence team
- IT Platform Engineering team
- GBS Transition Team

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

- Comprehensive understanding of the E2E processes operated by Global Business Services and their main metrics.
- Strong data acumen and experience with reporting systems, able to model and analyze complex data sets.
- Excellent collaboration skills, ability to influence without authority, and work effectively in a matrix organization.
- Focused on delivery of results through effective planning and solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.
- Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams.
- Ability to work and deliver in changing environments, under limited guidance while adhering to specified deadlines.
- Ability to think strategically, synthesize complex situations and develop innovative solutions within a changing environment.
- Knowledge of the performance measurement function and practices.
- Excellent project management skills and experience.
- Ability to guide teams in a trustful and proficient manner.
- Excellent English language proficiency.

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

- 6+ years of experience demonstrating progressive responsibility in roles focused on driving service excellence through the application of analytics.
- The successful candidate will have experience in business-level reporting, complex data mining, and analysis as well as data visualization.
- Preferably have implemented Performance Management System (e.g., Balanced Scorecard) in a large organization.
- Preferably experience working in Agile/Product lead organization.
- University degree or equivalent experience.
- adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace.
- We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees.
- We are an equal opportunity employer.

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