Senior Manager Demand Management Procurement Specialist

3 days ago

Portland, Oregon, United States adidas Full time
Purpose and 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 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, and ensuring visibility and transparency of spend will be key functions 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.
  • Emphasize demand management, price agreement adherence, process improvement, supplier compliance, and supplier pricing reconciliation processes.
  • 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 relevant stakeholders and the related supplier base within adidas and 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, and advise on best practices in contract management, compliance, and risk management to ensure maximum value delivery to adidas for goods and services rendered.
  • Develop and manage a pricing compliance, monitoring, and 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 proactively support 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 counterparts, GBS, suppliers, requestors, GBS procurement specialists, and GBS helpdesk agents.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Knowledge of sourcing and procurement methodologies and concepts, such as TCO and life cycle of products/services, business partnering.
  • Knowledge of supply base within the non-trade procurement categories of focus and availability of products/services, bottleneck criteria (market and pricing), cost levers, new technologies, and procedural best practices.
  • Knowledge of brand strategy and application in non-trade procurement, as well as finance.
  • Proven ability to drive category strategy and setup supplier selection and management. Proven ability to drive cost adherence, reconciliation, negotiation, and contract observance.
  • Ability to support and develop sourcing strategies in order to face market trends. Ability to identify market trends, as well as bringing in outside-in perspective on market trends, conditions, competitive landscape, and future cost or supply chain trends, and how they impact the upstream and downstream of adidas business.
  • Knowledge and experience in stakeholders and supplier relationship management, employment contracts, work-labor contracts, claim management, liability, warranty, and international procurement-related legislation.
  • Excellent analytical, presentation, communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
  • Deep analytical prowess and expertise around writing, reviewing, administering, and reconciling contracts to provide maximum performance while ensuring cost agreements are adhered to fully.
  • Action-oriented and solution-minded team player with a high degree of self-management.
  • Capability to independently interact throughout the organization.
  • Project management knowledge and experience.
  • Proficiency in MS Office, SAP/SRM a plus.
  • Fluent in English, spoken and written.
  • International, diverse mindset.
Requisite Education and Experience/Minimum Qualifications
  • A bachelor's or master's degree with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, finance, procurement, or legal, or comparable professional education.
  • 5 years of general business experience, preferably in procurement area.
  • Good experience within supplier selection, negotiation, and contracting.

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