Project Manager BI Global - GOPS (m/f)

Job description

Country: Germany
Job Function: Accounting & Finance

State / Province: Germany
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Herzogenaurach
Brand: adidas

Relocation:

Somewhere, in one of our workshops right now, the future is taking shape. We are constantly working to redefine the way clothing and footwear transforms the pitch, court or course. This is what drives us: the feeling of discovery and the urge to innovate. When we create a product that makes our hearts beat faster, we know we’re onto something.

If this sounds inspiring, you might be one of us: Someone who loves to create the present, as well as shape the future. There’s a reason adidas has been at the forefront of defining sport for more than 60 years: We never stand still. Everyday, we work to improve everything we create.

At adidas, interesting, amazing and inspiring aren’t just ideas. They are what we do every single day.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

· The BI Global GOPS team drives the development of innovative tools for state-of-the-art reporting and owns x-functional and standardized KPI analyses. The main focus is on Global Operations: Supply Chain Management and Product Operations.
· The team’s project management role includes defining requirements of respective dashboards and reports and driving classification, harmonization, standardization and automation of data sets.

Key Responsibilities:

· Capture, understand and deliver small to mid-scale projects, RFCs and work streams. This includes self-facilitating workshops with business and IT on respective business processes to reach a clear outcome, solution design and action steps.
· Manage the execution and completion of projects by effectively coordinating people and resources, defining, communicating and complying with timelines, scope and quality.
· Develop and implement state-of-the-art analytic tools and dashboards by using e.g. MicroStrategy or any other group standard dashboarding solution.
· Be the go-to person for business partners to consult on business intelligence topics, driving the end-to-end creation of solutions, including conceptualization, managing implementation and performing hands-on design and fine tuning of such solutions if required.
· Possess deep understanding of the bigger picture and end-to-end supply chain processes.
· High degree of customer orientation, result orientation and proactivity.
· Maintain a permanent communication channel with business partners identifying KPIs improvement needs.
· Prepare and conduct user training on the delivered solutions.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

· Very good planning and organization skills and ability to work and deliver in a changing environment, under limited guidance while adhering to agreed deadlines
· Good Project Management skills and understanding of Project Management methodologies
· Strong competence in UX (user experience) and database design
· Strong analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
· Very good communication skills for persuasion and convincing others

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

· University degree in IT, Economics or Business
· System expertise in MicroStrategy, SAP, Power BI and Tableau knowledge are a plus
· Strong competence with MS-Office 365 package and SharePoint
· 3-5 years of relevant work experience