Manager Rewards - Sales Compensation - Limitd Time Duration - 6 Months

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Manage, implement, and govern local and global Sales Compensation programs and processes. Participate in the development, implementation, and governance of global and local Sales Compensation programs, initiatives and projects. Both to meet the needs of our employees in all generations and to ensure our employees are paid competitively while also supporting the market strategy.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Sales Compensation program
  • Support the definition and design of Sales Compensation concepts and policies within the global Rewards framework and local market standards
  • Implement Sales Compensation tools and processes
  • Contribute to the Sales Compensation strategy, programs, and projects
  • Govern process descriptions and provide corresponding guidance to HR and GBS
  • Perform analysis of market trends and benchmarking
• Training, Communication and Change Management
  • Provide professional advice and communicate to Rewards Partners and HR Partners
  • Design and execute change management concepts for local, strategic and global Sales Compensation
  • Provide technical and process upskilling to the HR Community
  • Deliver local/individual communication on global, local and strategic programs
• Reporting/Analysis/Audit
  • Define local/functional reporting requirements for specific Sales Compensation programs
  • Execute and analyze local/functional reports
  • Execute regular proactive auditing cadence to ensure programs are governed in compliance and are market competitive
• Compliance
  • Provide continuous improvement for Sales Compensation processes, tools and programs
  • Administrate standards for Sales Compensation processes
  • Collaborate and upskill HR Services, and govern process operations

 

 

Key Relationships:

• HR Services & HR Solutions
• Cross-Border Employment
• Compensation & Benefits
• Rewards Market teams
• Sales Market teams
• Finance Market teams
• HR Business Partners
• External consultants
• Labor Relations
• Works Council
• Tech and DnA

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Self-motivated, proactive and continuous improvement mind-set
• Ability to work under pressure as well as prioritizing
• Strong customer focus and service minded
• Tolerance to ambiguity
• Team player
• Excellent presentation, communication and convincing skills (senior management)
• Analytical and detail-oriented work style
• Excellent knowledge of MS-Office applications
• Excellent knowledge of reporting and analytics applications
• Cultural awareness & sensitivity: ability to flex style to suit differing cultural norms
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to create effective, deep and successful working relationships across all levels of the organization
• 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

 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or adequate education
• 4+ years of overall work experience within HR, in particular Rewards
• Project Management experience
• Experience working in an international and matrix environment
• High level of affinity to and experience with Finance and Analytics

 

• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, den