About this role
Adidas
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
- Support NTP PR2PO operations by ensuring efficient, compliant, and scalable purchase requisition to purchase order execution, issue resolution, and operational coordination.
- Leverage AI tools and automation solutions to improve operational productivity, reduce manual effort, strengthen process control, and enhance user experience across NTP workflows.
- Develop practical AI-enabled use cases(incl. AI Agent), automation tools, dashboards, and analytics solutions to support daily operations, performance management, and continuous improvement.
- Proactively identify process, compliance, savings, and pipeline opportunities through spend analysis, operational data review, market research, and stakeholder engagement.
- Bridge with global, regional, and local teams to land digital, process efficiency, and procurement transformation initiatives within the Dalian NTP operation team.
Key Responsibilities
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NTP PR2PO Operations, AI Enablement and Process Improvement
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Support Process Improvement via AI technology and other Automation tools (Macro, RPA, etc) for both NTP operation team and Tactical Buy team
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Proactively identify efficiency improvement opportunities and lead overall design and landing
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Download efficiency initiatives from global teams and lead landing in Dalian
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Introduce and share Dalian good practices with global teams and help global team landing in their site
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Analysis and Market Research
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Support market research to do project feasibility assessment
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Support spend analysis and tail spend analysis to identify saving and pipeline opportunities
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Support PO automation analysis, root cause analysis, improvement plan
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Support KPI root cause analysis and improvement plan, such as PO compliance, GR compliance, etc.
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Reporting
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Support Market monthly performance review dashboard creation in Power BI and ppt
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Support team Daily Management template update and enhancement
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Support other reports as team needs
Key Relationships:
- Global | Regional Procurement Leads
- Global Procurement Excellence
- Global | Local NTP category managers and sourcing buyers
- GBS Function Service Lead and GPOs
- GBS Reporting Team
- GBS Dalian Operation Team, including NTP | AP | SLM | FA, etc.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and deploying AI-enabled solutions or AI agents, such as Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Automate AI capabilities, or similar tools, to solve real business operation problems.
- Good skills in Power BI, and familiar with other visualization tool, such as Tableau, Qlik, etc.
- Strong automation knowledge and practical experience with Advanced Excel, VBA, Power Query, Power Automate, macros, and workflow automation to streamline repetitive operational tasks.
- Proven experience in automation-based process improvement, including VBA-based tools, RPA solutions, low-code/no-code platforms, and end-to-end automation design from requirement clarification to implementation and user adoption.
- Strong mindset in process improvement and continuous efficiency
- Good team player, good communication and interpersonal skills
- Detail-oriented and well organized
- Quick learner on new technology and new methodology on innovation
- Fluent English, spoken and written
Requisite Education and Experience | Minimum Qualifications:
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Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in a similar function for BPO or SSC companies
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Bachelor degree or equivalent professional experience
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At adidas, we strongly believe that embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into our culture and talent processes gives our employees a sense of belonging and our brand a real competitive advantage.
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– Culture Starts With People, It Starts With You –
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By recruiting talent and developing our people to reflect the rich diversity of our consumers and communities, we foster a culture of inclusion that engages our employees and authentically connects our brand with our consumers.