Senior Manager Global Non-Trade Procurement - Sales Europe

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

 

"The Global Non-Trade Procurement team is creating value for adidas by delivering opportunities beyond sustainable negotiation success. As a strategic business partner, we provide market insights and trends to our global stakeholders. Stakeholder Management, Sourcing Management, Category Management and Supplier Management can be considered as our main areas of activity.

 

This position is located in Herzogenaurach responsible for supporting the implementation of procurement best practices within respective categories, including (below mentioned focus areas which are not exhaustive):

• Execution of procurement activities for respective categories in alignment with the line manager and relevant business partners.
• Support the implementation of category strategies for the responsible categories.
• Deliver towards the committed annual Non-Trade Procurement ambitions (e.g., negotiation success)

 

 

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

Stakeholder Management (if applicable)

• Act as the Single Point of Contact (e.g., escalations) for a dedicated adidas business area in context of all Non-Trade Procurement related topics
• Actively partner up with appointed stakeholders to effectively build business relationships enabling them to achieve their business targets
• Drive demand intake within NTP and provide regular status updates to your stakeholder
• Understand and manage business needs and address solutions
• Manage and challenge business expectations in line with Category strategies and policies
• Build up and drive project pipelines to achieve negotiation success ambitions

 

 

 

Sourcing Management

• Lead and/or execute medium sized sourcing projects and/or support large sized sourcing projects  (e.g. (e-)RfX, Single Source, risk assessment, supplier base assessment, internal and external analysis) in alignment with the Category Strategy
• Engage with respective stakeholders and suppliers in context of the sourcing event
• Perform contract administration activities (local/global) and manage contract compliance
• Negotiate medium sized contracts up to final authorization
• Participate in regular Category strategy upskilling sessions

 

Category Management (if applicable)

• Drive and lead the development of global strategies (medium sized categories) to address business needs incl. risk and supplier base assessment)
• Market Trends: Perform a comprehensive market research to understand the current and potential future market trends and new innovations related to service scope of the category
• Internal Requirements: Follow-up with Business Stakeholder Managers on a global level to obtain current and future needs of their stakeholders to consider in their category strategy development
• Organize, prepare and conduct category council meetings on a regular basis including upskilling of Sourcing Managers
• Add, update and maintain all category relevant information (e.g., Supplier Rostering) in the Non-Trade Procurement Database
• Benchmark category practices to identify initiatives for improvement and drive innovative approaches
• Define P2P and buying channel strategies, identify and consider automation potential
• Act as an adv