Director - IT SCM - adidas Group - Moscow

Job description
Key Responsibilities: * Responsible for delivering IT and SCM Solutions and Services for a large sub-department in overall IT & SCM organization. * Manage a department of 30-50 employees, driving for high results and productivity. * Own and drive key project delivery on portfolio of projects across business applications, infrastructure, and Supply Chain Management topics, etc. Directly or via team drive projecs thought: o Create and executes projects/programs, resource and budget/forecast plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
o Manage day-to-day operational aspects of the project/programs, coordinating activities across a wide group of internal, external and business teams. o Determine project governance and decision making structure. Establishes project roles and responsibilities and provides team members with clear direction. o Setup proper communication plans, risk management, budget/forecasting, etc. Tracks and reports monthly budget accruals and variances. o Take on scope as defined in the overall program strategy, but look proactively on how overall project scope aligns, adapts and even shapes strategic direction. o Work with resources to track progress toward key milestones and bridge the communication gap and report on status/progress, challenges, and issues to Program Mgmt team. o Comprehensive handover of projects to the support teams; proactively follow-up on post deployment of projects to ensure stability and effective project closure. o Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately. * Manage overall department and project resourcing, driving evolution and growth of employees and engaging third party suppliers for outsourced services as needed. * Take proactive role in driving strategy and roadmap for department, constantly pushing to enable the business to the next level. * Drive strong Business Solution mindset, offering and enabling business solutions, not just a simple IT or SCM service provider. * Enable department goals through strong cross-functional and global collaboration. * Create and present to variety of stakeholder groups from strategy, vision and roadmap, to also regular project status and business solutions recommended. Authorities: * Act as a key team lead, reporting into Vice President IT & SCM. * Manage extended external team of vendors and potentially internal resources, ranging across director IT/SCM, senior business solution managers, senior project managers, workstream leads, technical leads and development teams. * Work collaboratively with global business partners and different IT departments/projects to provide integrated solutions. * Responsible for compliance with the Global IT & SCM Standards and Procedures throughout the life cycle of projects and daily operations. * Coordinate and manage deliverables for internal and external team members. Key Relationships: * Working in a highly diverse and international team environment to identify solutions and gather requirements with an extended set of stakeholders across vendor teams, business and IT. * Manage relationships across a diverse matrix of IT & SCM stakeholders and systems * Interact with vendor delivery partners, managing work and coordinating project delivery as applicable. * Interact with a diverse set of business users at varying seniority levels across channels, brands, etc. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Strong knowledge of and passion for Enterprise processes and technology with a focus on technologies in Retail and digital consumer space. * Extensive experience eliciting and building project frames, creating business solution and business requirements from stakeholders in facilitated sessions and/or personal interviews. * Possess strong skills in relationship/stakeholder management, technical aptitude, understanding core SCM processes, etc. * Mindset of entrepreneurial thinking and anticipating new capabilities not even requested but also being able to execute and deliver in large, global company environment. * Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment. * Excellent communication, presentation, writing, and documentation skills. * Strong understanding of systems and business processes as well as experience working with application data and data relationships.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: * 3-5 years experience as a Director for IT and/or SCM programs in consumer-facing businesses. * 7+ years experience leading large IT & SCM Projects or Programs in IT/SCM consulting or industry (with an excellent track record). * Deep content knowledge and implementation experience in consumer technologies (e.g. Digital, CRM, point of sale, store operations, etc.). * Formal training or certification preferred in Project Management methodology and software development/implementation life-cycle. * Strong customer focus and management of client expectations; ability to establish and maintain a high level of user trust and confidence in the group. * Bachelor Degree equivalent in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or similar field of study * Fluent proficiency in English, written and verbal

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