Innovation Specialist

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:

• GBS Leadership team
• Global Process Owners
• Operations teams in centers
• Global Delivery Excellence team
• IT Platform Engineering team

 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent collaboration skills, and work effectively in a matrix organization.
• Knowledge in Python, Sharepoint
• Design principle of PowerPlatform (Powerapps/Powerautomate)
• Experience in Databricks and familiarity with PySpark (add-on)
• Passionate about taking Innovative initiatives and how technology can help in large enterprises
• Good English language proficiency

 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ 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

Experience Level

Senior Level