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Sr Specialist Innovation

Sr Specialist Innovation

ConfidentialChennai
17 days ago
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

The role will be to understand business requirements and help transform them into technical architecture. You will provide service advice and liaise with partners to help the stakeholders move rapidly from idea to prototype, to production solution.

In addition, will build and participate in mechanisms for tracking impact for stakeholders and for GBS and relevant experience to help improve operations.

It's an adidas 2025 strategy position. The role holder must be comfortable working in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial enterprise technology environment, and working with cross-functional teams as many parts of the program will have interdependencies with other teams within adidas.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with adidas (GBS) leaders across business, markets & functions to identify and qualify suitable opportunities for the innovation program
  • Facilitate solution workshops to understand business requirements and map to solution architectures
  • Lead and coordinate the delivery of those solutions, working with relevant technology experts, services teams, and partners where appropriate
  • Ability to think strategically, synthesize complex situations and develop innovative solutions within a changing environment
  • Build value propositions and technology business cases
  • Effectively track and articulate the value of engagements underway and major wins for GBS
  • Earn trust with senior technology stakeholders within adidas and partner organizations
  • Share knowledge effectively across the different GBS operational teams
  • Help develop and improve the innovation culture across adidas GBS
  • Work with the operational teams to identify and enable them to adopt digital innovation
  • Ability to multitask and manage a portfolio of projects : work prioritization, planning, collaboration, and management
  • 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

  • Excellent collaboration skills, ability to influence without authority, and work effectively in a matrix organization
  • Familiarity with innovation principles and notable industry approaches / best practices
  • Deep Knowledge in Copilot / Gen AI to build conversational chatbots
  • Knowledge in Python, SharePoint, Databricks
  • Practical knowledge in IDP (Abbyy or other OCR tools)
  • Design principle of PowerPlatform (PowerApps / PowerAutomate)
  • Passion for innovation and how technology can help large enterprises
  • Good English language proficiency
  • Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in multiple technologies, GBS organization working model and demonstrating progressive responsibility in roles focused on driving service excellence through the application of analytics
  • 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.

    Skills Required

    Powerapps, Sharepoint, Databricks, Python, Ocr

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