Sr Specialist - Innovation

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

• Ability to think strategically, synthesize complex situations and develop innovative solutions within a changing / dynamic environment.
• Ability to multitask and manage a portfolio of projects - work prioritization, planning, collaboration, and management
• Providing significant longer support for new / existing initiatives
• Work with adidas (GBS) leaders across business, markets & functions to identify and qualify suitable opportunities for the innovation program.
• Lead and coordinate the delivery of those solutions, working with relevant technology experts, services teams, and partners where appropriate.

Key Relationships

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

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, Pyspark, Databricks, Python, Sharepoint