Senior Specialist GBS Legal Procurement

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

GBS, the engine that designs, builds, and operates consistent adidas end-to-end business services & solutions globally to drive the transformation TO ONE ADIDAS enabling our Business Partners to focus on core business.

GBS prioritizes executing transitions, process, and solution roadmaps. Implementing one service framework, performance measurements and GBS customer board. Furthermore, GBS is driving the implementation of robotics process automation (RPA).

It is the overarching goal to move the adidas Group to a much more consistent, standardized, and automated operating model with solid governance, architecture, and operating model.

The GBS Procurement Functional Services is one of five global services who is designing and implementing end to end services & solutions as Global Process Owner (GPO). GPO’s can effectively cross-collaborate with multiple stakeholders to define the current and future state of adidas business and its processes, identifying issues and risks, suggesting mitigation strategies, and driving towards technology solutions.

GBS Operations operate by executing Global Process Owner services and solutions, drives innovations to secure operational and timely processing in the GBS centers in line with global accounting standards and other regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities and General Accountabilities:

• Analyze, develop new and adjust existing end to end processes/ services, standards, or operational plans, and deliver results with direct impact on GBS Procurement Services, GBS Source to Pay (Legal Tracker) & the Global Legal function.
• Work towards the GBS & Legal priorities and roadmap, KPI’s, OKRs and overall GBS roadmap
• Manage and execute transformation initiatives including GAP analysis related to the GBS & Legal operation centers/markets and provide process competency with a specific focus on Legal Services.
• Support ad hoc initiatives related to the Legal Solutions team including Legal Tracker, DocuSign, Leah, Litigation support, review of GenAI in legal services and the general operation of the legal function.
• Manage and execute process improvement initiatives on demand.
• Provide input to identify improvement potential, problems and feasibility of process change with stakeholders through variance analysis and effective usage of data, create transparency on priorities, develop options / solutions and facilitate recommendations for preparing fact-based decisions ending into regular continuous improvements.
• Lead medium sized projects with the respective profound process and technical knowledge within the boundaries of time, cost & quality, focusing on the customers expectations, implement results and support sustainability of solution.
• Possess knowledge of S2C processes and act as a subject matter expert.
• Support Global Legal change management through design and delivery of prototype tools, with other functions and streams to operationalize accordingly
• Ensure standardized data management processes and drive data quality improvement actions
• Support business process stakeholders on the analysis of master data processes, proposing relevant improvements and facilitating the successful implementation
• Provide expertise for operational processes or (primary) data related queries
• Develop and implement adequate communication packages to present derived results, recommendations and solutions
• Manage compliance and global process guidance

Key Relationships:

• Global Legal Team
• GBS VP’s
• GBS Procurement Services Team
• GBS Finance Teams
• Global Functional Services Teams
• GBS Operation Teams
• External system providers/ consulters
• External contacts/ corporates for knowledge sharing and trends

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Willingness to learn
• Experience and understanding of GBS / Shared Services environments
• Understanding of GBS processes
• Understanding of Legal processes
• Understanding of the consumer goods industry
• Understanding of financial, procurement and legal processes
• Experience in process design, process mapping, improving process quality, process review and compliance (SAP Signavio is a plus)
• Ability to apply continuous process improvement concepts and tools
• High degree of customer orientation
• Fluent in English (verbal and written)
• Very good communication skills and an international mindset
• Ability to think strategically as well as tactically
• Very good analytical and cross functional mindset
• Familiarity with project management, strong planning and organization skills, and ability to work and deliver in changing environments, under limited guidance while adhering to specified deadlines
• Ability to work independently and with integrity
• Ability to coach, guide and manage teams in a trustworthy and proficient manner
• Result oriented and proactive

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Business Administration, Legal or IT or related areas, or equivalent combinations of educations
• Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant work experience
• Experience in data management
• Ideally experience in shared service center organizations.
• Understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer
• Project management experiences