PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
Our LAM NTP acts as a strategic business partner, ensuring that business relationships and engagements with suppliers and counterparts are handled according to policies, commercial goals, risks and procurement area related best practices for all non-productive services and materials.
We are responsible for leading and driving the implementation of value-driven procurement strategies, projects and processes, maximizing profitability, efficiency, transparency and supplier performance.
We also pursue value beyond hard savings, including top-line growth enablement, sustainability, speed-to-market, governance and enhanced stakeholder experience through continuous process simplification.
Acts with full ownership for all NTP activities in
ARGENTINA
, ensuring alignment with regional strategies while adapting to local market needs and regulatory requirements, and actively drives and contributes to regional projects and category initiatives across
LATIN AMERICA
.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: COUNTRIES IN SCOPE (ARGENTINA)
- Act as the SPOC within the countries and categories in scope, including all NTP layers.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to the business, translating commercial needs into sourcing strategies.
- Actively partner with stakeholders to build trust-based relationships enabling achievement of business goals.
- Understand, manage, align & challenge business expectations and needs in line with policy and adidas strategic goals, addressing solutions to win as one team.
- Build and drive a pipeline of projects to achieve negotiation and value creation ambitions.
- Close communication, exposure and visibility within the business, including a cadence of meetings (1:1s, functional & strategic meetings), including Finance, FLMs, GMs and key stakeholders.
- Proactive and problem solver, bringing inputs and balancing relevant strategic and operational topics.
- Lead and execute medium-large sized sourcing projects (e.g. RfX, Single Source, risk assessment, supplier base assessment, internal and external analysis) in alignment with the category strategy, area and company goals.
- Engage with respective stakeholders and suppliers in the context of the sourcing event, ensuring proper alignment and meeting expectations in terms of quality, time and costs.
- Act as a PMO within different NTP layers (local, regional, global, GBS) ensuring proper communication, alignment, milestones and project.
- Support and track Business and Legal on contract creation, reflecting negotiated conditions.
- Onboard/inform results to Finance and Business to reflect results in the budget forecast.
- Lead, develop and execute global/regional/local strategies for the categories in scope, addressing and accommodating business needs (incl. risk and supplier assessment).
- Benchmark (in-and-out) comprehensive category and market research to identify trends, innovations, and supplier capabilities.
- Conduct spend analysis, risks & opportunities, supplier matrix.
- Facilitate category council/upskilling sessions for sourcing managers and business stakeholders.
- Define category strategy & system maintenance (e.g supplier rostering, buying channels, automation, database).
- Demand management on key contracts strengthening financial control and spend accuracy, reviewing volumes behaviors, rebates, terms & conditions, etc.
- Act as an advisor and escalation point for category-related issues and drive resolution, including centralized communications and topics consolidations.
- Lead recruitment, onboarding, and development of team members.
- Allocate work effectively, balancing experience, complexity, workload and priorities.
- Set clear targets and performance standards aligned with business and NTP objectives.
- Conduct regular performance assessments and support upskilling needs.
- Foster a high-performance culture embracing company values through guidance & coaching.
- Act as SPOC for the assigned key suppliers.
- Lead supplier development and innovation activities.
- Drive cross-functional review meetings to monitor performance, contractual terms, risks and opportunities.
- Partner with suppliers to explore capabilities that drive future innovation and value creation.
- Act as advisor for stakeholder/category manager related to key strategic suppliers.
- Internal: MNTP, GNTP, GBS NTP, Finance (FDs, peers), Key Business Stakeholders (including FLMs and GMs), Enabling Functions (Controlling, Legal, HR, IT).
- External: Suppliers, Industry Peers.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Advanced knowledge of strategic sourcing, procurement methodologies and concepts such as PMO Skills, 7-Steps Strategic Sourcing, TCO analysis, Cost & Demand Management and Operational Efficiencies
- Stakeholder/Sourcing/ Category/Supplier/People Management experience.
- Experience across indirect procurement categories (e.g Marketing, Retail, Logistics, Prof. Services, Facilities, IT).
- Strong understanding of procurement tools e.g Ariba guided sourcing/buying, catalogues, buying channels, SAP.
- Ability to deliver sustainable bottom-line savings and top-line contributions.
- Skilled in data analysis, stakeholder influence and leadership without authority, and business case development.
- Experience working with GBS and in global matrix/structure.
- Strong analytical, presentation, communication, and influencing skills.
- Ability to foster innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo.
- Curious, resilient, adaptable, problem solver, solution oriented, team player, collaborative.
- International, diverse mindset.
- Soft & Hard skills balance driven.
- Fluent in English and Spanish (spoken and written).
- Proficiency MS Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Teams. Power-Bi is a plus.
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- A bachelor's or master's degree with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, finance, engineering, procurement or legal, or comparable professional education.
- At least 5+ years working experience in a procurement role, minimum 3-4 years’ experience in a management procurement position.
- Experience in a global / matrix structure, working with shared service centers is desired.
