Senior Manager Demand Management - Procurement

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

 

To ensure that commercial and business relationships and engagements with suppliers are handled according to policies, commercials, risks and procurement area related best practices for all non-trade procurement categories. This role is also responsible for maximizing the profitability, demand management, negotiated pricing adherence and compliance, within non-trade procurement priority categories. Developing and facilitating procurement category strategies, procurement auditing of supplier work, all while ensuring visibility and transparency of spend, will be the key function of this role.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Create, support and manage the development and execution of non-trade procurement categories related strategies in alignment with senior management and relevant Business Partners and their Brand objectives.
• Emphasis on demand management, price agreement adherence, process improvement, + supplier compliance, as well as supplier pricing reconciliation processes. 
• Ability to tie contractual terms, key performance indicators, expected deliverable outcomes back to contract, and to hold suppliers accountable for the mutually agreed upon outcomes and financial terms.
• Ability to analyze, gap analysis of adidas non-trade procurement contracts, actuals, and how to best reconcile when billing and/or performance issues occur.
• Build business relationships and effectively partner with the relevant stakeholders and the related supplier base within adidas + external supply base.
• Drive and support the creation and implementation of sourcing and supplier strategies and ensure compliance with procurement policies, standards and guidelines
• Review, administer + advise on best practices in contract management, compliance, and risk management to ensure maximum value delivery to adidas for goods and services rendered. Bring innovative solutions and best practices  to contract management, as well as demand management and contract terms, conditions and pricing.
• Development and management of a pricing compliance, monitoring + reconciliation process with non-trade rostered suppliers in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Lead and participate in cross-functional teams in defined procurement and general development projects as well as pro-actively supporting other team members in their tasks and activities.
• Generate operational overhead efficiencies, pricing reconciliation processes, and budgetary scrutiny on spend patterns/behaviors for reporting, and improvement opportunities with adidas budget.
• Drive, lead and support supplier selection (tender) processes in alignment with business partners and negotiate contracts up to final authorization including dispute resolution, approving and qualifying vendors, financial terms etc.
• Continuous learning and development of procurement knowledge and methodologies driving innovation and continuous improvement within the procurement function
• Act as an ambassador of procurement within the organization

 

 

 

 

 

Key Relationships:

• North America stakeholders in finance, legal, marketing, workplaces, corporate real estate and construction, retail, supply chain, IT, and other priority non-trade procurement areas of focus.
• Global and Regional (EMEA, APAC, LAM, Etc,) Counterparts in finance, legal, marketing, workplaces, corporate real estate and construction, retail, supply chain, IT, and other priority non-trade procurement areas of focus. as well as global