Senior Director Product Ownership Connectivity (m/f/d)

<p>Tech Team: Tech Enablement - Tech Core</p> <p>Product Area: Connectivity</p> <p> </p> <p>Purpose &amp; Overall Relevance for the Organization:<br/> Our Senior Director Connectivity will leverage deep technology expertise bringing our internal network to the next level. In this role you will be leading a global team of +25 people across our IT locations and take responsibility for the foundation delivery and operation of our sophisticated and cutting-edge IT Connectivity Infrastructure. This includes Network LAN, WAN, Wireless and Network Security related topic for over 2000 Retail and 1000 office locations. This person will act as a sparring partner and technology counterpart to all related IT and business areas within adidas on global level.</p> <p> </p> <p>Key Responsibilities:</p> <p>Innovation<br/> •    Manages the innovation pipeline and executes innovation processes.<br/> •    Develops, evolves, and adapts innovation tools, processes, and infrastructures to drive the process of innovation.<br/> •    Identifies resources and capabilities needed to support innovation.<br/> •    Encourages and motivates innovation communities, teams, and individuals to share creative ideas and learn from failures.<br/> •    Manages and facilitates the communication and open flow of creative ideas between interested parties and the set-up of innovation networks and communities.</p> <p>Research<br/> •    Builds on and refines appropriate outline ideas for the evaluation, development, demonstration, and implementation of research.<br/> •    Contributes to research goals and funding proposals.<br/> •    Collects and analyses qualitative and quantitative data as required.<br/> •    Creates research reports to communicate research methodology, findings, and conclusions.<br/> •    Presents papers at conferences, contribute significant sections of material of publication quality, and presents reports to clients.<br/> •    Contributes to research plans and identifies appropriate opportunities for publication and dissemination of research findings.<br/> •    Makes an active contribution to research communities.<br/>  </p> <p>Portfolio, program, and project support<br/> •    Takes responsibility for the provision of portfolio, program, and project support.<br/> •    Advises on the available standards, procedures, methods, tools, and techniques.<br/> •    Evaluates project and/or program performance and recommends changes where necessary.<br/> •    Contributes to reviews and audits of project and program management to ensure conformance to standards.</p> <p> </p> <p>Business analysis<br/> •    Takes responsibility for investigative work to determine business requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements in information systems, information management, practices, procedures, and organization change.<br/> •    Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate business analysis methods, tools, and techniques, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.<br/> •    Collaborates with stakeholders at all levels, in the conduct of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.<br/> •    Prepares business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.</p> <p><br/> Requirements definition and management<br/> •    Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for large, complex initiatives.<br/> •    Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.<br/> •    Obtains input from, and formal agreement to, requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.<br/> •    Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.<br/> •    Establishes requirements baselines.<br/> •    Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.<br/> •    Contributes to the development of organizational methods and standards.</p> <p> </p> <p>Release and deployment<br/> •    Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk.<br/> •    Liaises with business and IT partners on release scheduling and communication of progress.<br/> •    Conducts post release reviews.<br/> •    Ensures release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed.<br/> •    Identifies, evaluates, and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment tools, techniques, and processes (including automation).<br/>  </p> <p>Relationship management<br/> •    Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.<br/> •    Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and delivera