About the role
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
At adidas, we have a clear purpose: “Through sport, we have the power to change lives.” This guiding principle shapes how we operate as a company, how we collaborate with our partners, how we create our products, and how we connect with our consumers. Our values represent essential behaviors and mindsets, reflecting the “You Got This” attitude we strive to see in every team member.
This same purpose and mindset are at the heart of Global Business Services (GBS) the team that delivers consistent, end-to-end business solutions across adidas. By driving process excellence and operational efficiency, GBS enables our partners to focus on what matters most: creating impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform Quality Checks on all Purchase requests on a adhoc basis
- Support Roll-out of ARIBA Guided Buying & Fieldglass
- Support and/or drive testing activities of new functionalities in SAP systems, participate in the implementation of new tools and processes (e.g. Ariba, Fieldglass)
- Support Business and team on Process and technical-related questions.
- Solve escalations and work on problem-solving for the future
- Support Team Leads in reporting and data analysis.
- Ensure policy compliance and KPIs throughout the entire operations.
- Identify, drive and manage implementation improvements along the operational D2PO processes
- Work on process, standardization, automation and simplification activities
- Responsible to ensure up-to-date process GBS.NTP documentation.
- Provide onboarding support and training to new joiners.
- Align with NTP Category Managers on category-specific policy and documentation updates.
- Provide Helpdesk support in ARIBA for Americas markets, ensuring cross-functional collaboration and operational support across different stakeholders and business units.
- Support compliance monitoring activities by identifying risks, gaps and process deviations, while proposing corrective and preventive actions.
Key Relationships:
- Global Business Requestors
- Global/Local Procurement Teams
- GBS Buyers
- GBS Procurement Teams
- GBS Accounts Payable
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, finance, procurement or legal, or comparable professional education.
- 2+ years business experience, preferably in Procurement area & Customer Service, Administrative functions experience.
- Excellent understanding of Ariba purchasing systems.
- Advanced knowledge of Procurement and/or Operations.
- Eagerness to learn and an analytical mindset.
- Excellent communication skills and the capability to independently interact with different stakeholders.
- Action oriented and solution minded team player with a process-oriented mindset.
- Advanced literacy in MS Office tools.
- Fluent in English, spoken and written.
