Senior Manager, Performance Management

PURPOSE

 

SCM Intelligence and Performance Management team is a core team that has significant and wide-ranging responsibilities across supply chain, NAM, and Global Operations.  The team sets the governance for all reporting and analytics for the greater NAM SCM team. In addition, the team works closely with all other SCM teams to provide reporting resources to empower them with their data needs.  

 

The Senior Manager SCM Intelligence and Performance Management role is key in collaborating with all SCM teams for R&A needs and also within the R&A core team for portfolio and project management. The Senior Manager SCM Intelligence and Performance Management will work closely with the SCM senior leadership team to create solutions, strengthen and coordinate reporting efforts throughout the SCM organization, and share insights at all levels of the organization.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Manage project portfolio, partnering closely with the Snr Director and core team.
• Coordinate projects and tasks within the team and across the different supply chain functions.
• Work with stakeholders to clearly identify the scope and schedule for projects.
• Coordinate across supply chain functions to reduce redundancies and efforts.
• Catalog, prioritize, and track progress of all supply chain R&A projects, flag risks appropriately, provide creative solutions to stakeholders.

 

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

• Drive and coordinate reporting efforts throughout the NAM SCM organization, and share insights at all levels of the organization.
• Work with NAM SCM, its business stakeholders, and IT to identify clear business requirements needed for expert control of the supply chain.
• Develop and/or oversee the creation of analytical and reporting solutions in the short, medium, and long-term.
• Establish best practices, change management, and foundational needs to support day-to-day activities and the supply chain transformation.
• Participate in the development of new analytical solutions and operational reporting for NAM SCM functions and the department as a whole.
• Document interdependencies between systems, datasets, and processes.
• Cultivate the use of analytics and reporting as solutions to gain expert control of the supply chain.
• Change management to improve or replace reports, solutions, and processes.

 

LEAD AND DEVELOP A HIGH-PERFORMING TEAM

• Directly manage a team, fostering their growth and ensuring the development of a diverse skill set that span reporting design, delivery, and advanced analytics techniques.
• Cultivate a collaborative and high-impact team culture, encouraging continuous learning, inclusion and innovation.
• Other duties as assigned.  

 

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

 

• SCM NAM Team
• Market and Global Finance
• Market and Global DNA
• Market and Global Tech
• Sales Operations
• Sourcing
• Global SCM

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

 

• Foundational SCM expertise.
• Supply Chain / Operations Research / Management Science background.
• Systems thinking and excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent team player with demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in a complex environment to achieve goals.
• Diverse experience modeling complex systems.
• Ability to be self-directed while working under tight deadlines.
• Excellent communicator (both written and verbal) regardless of the audience.
• Ability to accept and meet critical deadlines with good planning and organization skills.
• Thorough facilitation skills in small and large groups.
• Ability to collaborate with others and create consensus with internal and external partners.
• Ability to communicate complex data and solutions at all levels of the organization.
• Ability for visualizing complex data in a simple and actionable manner.
• High proficiency or expertise with database, statistical and business intelligence systems, analytics tools and disciplines (e.g., Power BI, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, MicroStrategy, Tableau, SQL, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics and similar data analytics tools, etc.)
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to: regularly required to talk, hear; sit, stand and/or walk; use fingers, hands, arms and feet to feel, handle, grip, grasp, lift, operate, push, pull, bend, and/or twist for up to twelve (12) hours/day, and able to reliably attend work/scheduled hours.

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS  

 

• Four year degree from college or university preferred with emphasis in supply chain management, operations research, or management science. Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be substituted for degree.
• Minimum 5+ years related progressive work experience and/or training.
• Advanced MS Excel skills
• Overall proficiency in PowerBI with advanced report usage and development skills
• Advanced PowerPoint
• Proficiency with SQL, R, Python
• Experience with SAP AFS
• Experience with Databricks
• Required to speak, read, write and comprehend the English language 

 

• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave. 

• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years. 

• At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday.  The working location of this position is Portland, OR. 

• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.