Adidas is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization
You will play a central role in shaping and governing Global Distribution Excellence (GDE) standards, frameworks, and methodologies across distribution centers and outbound transportation. Operating within the Standards & Governance pillar, you will help define best-in-class practices for the distribution network, strengthen operational performance, improve transparency, and enable markets to adopt consistent processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Enhance Global Frameworks: Continuously evolve and govern the GDE framework toolkit, including playbooks, standards, SOPs, policies, sharing platforms, forms, BI dashboards, and KPIs.
- Enable Adoption & Training: Develop training materials and upskill communities to use frameworks, tools, and methodologies effectively.
- Ensure Knowledge Continuity: Maintain documentation, workflows, and process definitions for long-term clarity and continuity.
- Data & Reporting Excellence: Harmonize KPI definitions, dashboards, and reporting logic, validating data models, formulas, and insights.
- Root Cause Analysis: Drive data and root cause analysis to identify efficiency gaps and cost-saving opportunities.
- Participate in Development & Rollouts: Contribute to the creation, testing, refinement, and global rollout of standards, frameworks, and methodologies.
- Project Delivery: Contribute to projects across the broader GSCM landscape and embed standards and insights into initiatives.
- Community Building & Recognition: Foster best-practice sharing, collaboration, replication, and recognition across the GSCM community.
- Sustainability: Integrate sustainability principles into standards and frameworks for distribution centers and outbound transportation.
Key Relationships
Key partners include Global Distribution Excellence teams, market SCM teams, transportation functions, distribution operations experts, Distribution IT & Tech, Global Procurement, Finance and Controlling, project management and transformation teams, and external logistics partners.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strategic thinking and framework design
- Strong understanding of end-to-end distribution, including distribution center operations and outbound fundamentals
- Analytical and data fluency, including KPI logic and model validation
- Governance, alignment, change leadership, and cross-functional collaboration
- Strong written and verbal communication and facilitation skills
- Community building and best-practice exchange
- Structured, data-driven problem-solving and decision-making
- Strong MS Office skills; familiarity with BI tools, data platforms, and AI-enabled analytics solutions preferred
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications
- 4-year college or university degree with a focus on supply chain management
- Minimum 5+ years of progressive experience in mid- to large-scale global projects or programs
- Proven track record of driving change and influencing globally without direct reporting lines
- Extensive supply chain or logistics experience within multinational FMCG companies, preferably apparel or fashion
Company Culture
Adidas fosters an athlete’s mindset through courage, ownership, innovation, teamplay, integrity, and respect. The company emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion as core elements of its culture and talent processes.