NOTICE OF JOB OPPORTUNITY

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EMPLOYER:    adidas America, Inc.

POSITION:    Manager Business Solutions

DUTIES:      Consult business stakeholders and manage mid to large-scale (100k € to >500 k €) cross-functional projects within the boundaries of time, cost and quality while focusing on the customers’ expectations and requirements. Capture, understand and deliver Requests for Change (RFCs), projects or work streams for the Finance and IT Omnichannel Department, including supporting and facilitating workshops with business and IT on respective business processes to reach a clear outcome, solution design and action steps. Understand, challenge and manage demand dependencies and business requirements within the business community and across global IT to maximize added value and continuous business process improvement. Ensure the delivery of the release/project by leading execution within the boundaries of time, cost and quality, and managing customers’ expectations and requirements. Ensure that existing governance models are followed. Support the stabilization and sustainable handover of projects to the respective support teams. Contribute to change management activities for projects and releases by supporting stakeholders so that changes are smoothly and successfully implemented to achieve lasting benefits. Ensure proper project documentation, training, controls and metrics. Oversee operations and Keep System Running (KSR) by managing externals resources and providing second and third level support, ensuring predictability of results. Act as the single point of contact for the appropriate business counterparts to resolve application issues in a timely and cost-effective manner. Follow Service Level Agreement (SLA) standards in alignment with the business. Execute and analyze day-to-day operations support and identify improvement areas and actions and drive their implementation.

REQUIREMENTS:         Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or a related field of study, and five (5) years of experience in a related position. Work experience must have included: experience configuring the SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) module; experience configuring the SAP AFS (Apparel and Footwear Solution) module; experience with EDI (Electronic Data Interface) configuration; and experience with advanced level SAP debugging, including the ability to debug ABAP code.

JOB SITE:     5055 N. Greeley Avenue, Portland, OR  97217

WORK HOURS:    40 hours/week, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm