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/local stakeholders. Stakeholder Management, Sourcing Management, Category Management and Supplier Management can be considered as our main areas of activity.- This position is located in Melbourne 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
- Manage demand intake within NTP and provide regular status updates to your stakeholder
- Understand business needs and address solutions
- Manage business expectations in line with Category strategies and policies
- Build up project pipelines to achieve negotiation success ambitions
- Sourcing Management
- Lead and/or execute small to 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 small to medium sized contracts up to final authorization
- Participate in regular Category strategy upskilling sessions
- Category Management (if applicable)
- Drive and lead the development of local strategies (small to medium sized categories) to address business needs incl. risk and supplier base assessment)
- Good knowledge for Logistic and marketing categories
- 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 advisor/escalation point for category ((small to medium sized) related issues towards Sourcing colleagues and drive resolution in line with global Procurement policies
- Consolidate and communicate category's achievements (financial or other)
- Supplier Management (if applicable)
- Support the set-up of cross-functional review meetings with key suppliers in order to improve performance and further cost / demand reductions
- Support with the communication of any updates from key suppliers towards the Procurement organization
- Support supplier performance measurement activities
- Provide support in setting up and managing regular supplier business review meetings
- Key Relationships:
- Internal: Non-Trade Procurement team, Global Business Services teams, Key Business Stakeholder Functions, Key Business Partners (Legal, Finance, etc.)
- External: Suppliers: Executives, Key Account Managers & Legal CounselPeers and managers of other
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Advanced knowledge in strategic sourcing and procurement methodologies, business partnering and category management
- Strong understanding of financial planning, budget management, savings methodologies and impact
- Strong ability to analyze data, specifications and influence demand
- Strong communication experience
- Developed analytical, presentation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to operate at pace and respond positively to change
- Action oriented and solution minded team player with high degree of self-management
- Proficiency in MS Office and ARIBA Sourcing
- Fluent in English, to a business standard, spoken and written, additional language skills are advantageous
- Expertise in Category Management
- Requisite Education a