Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization
Are you passionate about enhancing reporting and analytics capabilities to foster transparency and visibility across the entire supply chain organization? Do you enjoy utilizing SQL to address critical business inquiries and deliver insights that inform decision-making? If you have robust front-end visualization experience and are eager to make a significant impact on the adidas supply chain, then this position is perfect for you. We are looking for an experienced Manager of Supply Chain Business Intelligence to join our Supply Chain Intelligence team!
In this role, you will be instrumental in building and enhancing reporting capabilities, ensuring standardization, harmonization, and scalability. Your efforts will create visibility that promotes the proactive management of our business operations. Join us in shaping the future of supply chain excellence at adidas.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop scalable reporting solutions and visualize data using BI tools such as Power BI.
- Utilize SQL queries to extract, transform, and load data, ensuring a single version of truth through standardization and harmonization.
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications for the Data Transformation team, covering data points, architecture, and models.
- Timely develop and validate relevant metrics across various markets and document them to enhance transparency. Generate comprehensive and up-to-date documentation in Confluence.
- Manage the deployment of reporting capabilities, optimizing dashboard performance, conducting thorough data validation, and onboarding the Supply Chain reporting user community.
- Coordinate and actively contribute to user acceptance testing and change management for newly developed reporting capabilities, ensuring successful rollout and adoption across SCM markets and key stakeholders.
- Conduct root cause analyses to assist the business in addressing key management questions.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- BI Expertise: Develop and maintain insightful dashboards and self-service reports using Power BI. Strong skills in DAX, data modeling, and report performance optimization are essential. Utilize advanced tools to accelerate report performance (e.g., DAX Studio, Tabular Editor).
- Data Proficiency: Manage the end-to-end process of gathering, extracting, and transforming data across sources using relevant tools (e.g., SQL, Python). Ensure data quality and harmonization to empower other teams.
- Analytical Skills: Possess strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify root causes, recognize patterns, and provide actionable recommendations.
- Operational Insight: Have a firm understanding of KPIs, operational processes, and the necessary trade-offs to balance speed and accuracy.
- Communication: Confidently present insights and project updates to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborative Style: Work collaboratively across teams to support user acceptance testing, data validation, and user education for new reporting capabilities, engaging stakeholders at all levels.
- Growth Mindset: Embrace feedback and setbacks as learning opportunities, and continuously seek to improve tools, processes, and personal development.
Requisite Education and Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in reporting and analytics, including front-end visualization and tools such as SQL and Python.
- A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Logistics, Planning, or Information Systems from an accredited institution.
- Proven experience in a business intelligence role, with a strong understanding of BI concepts, tools (e.g., Power BI and SQL), and methodologies.
- A good understanding of supply chain principles, operating practices, logistics terminology, basic finance, and management of cross-functional interdependencies.
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