About this role
<p><strong>Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:</strong><br>The role of the Technology Consultant is responsible for the planning, installing and for the<br>configuration of software solutions and systems. It is capable to support employees with specific<br>applications and provides expert advisory. The role analyzes information systems of adidas and<br>individualizes specific system solutions to meet the demand of the business.<br><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong><br>Specialist advice<br>• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.<br>• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the<br>organization’s planning and operations.<br>• Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.<br>• Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate<br>to the needs of the organization.<br><strong>Business analysis</strong><br>• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective<br>business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of<br>new or changed processes.<br>• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from<br>investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for<br>consideration.<br>• Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for<br>consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.<br>• Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects,<br>selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile)<br>approaches.<br><br><strong>Requirements definition and management</strong><br>• Contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately<br>from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.<br>• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for<br>initiatives of medium size and complexity.<br>• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective<br>prioritization of requirements.<br>• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.<br>• Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and<br>ensures traceability to source.<br>• Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined<br>requirements, in line with change management policy.<br>Porting/software configuration<br>• Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platformspecific versions of one or more software products.<br>• Documents faults, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.<br>Application support<br>• Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures.<br>• Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.<br>• Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.<br>If required: People Management / Resource Management:<br>• Is involved in recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decision and pre-selection of<br>candidates<br>• Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity,<br>workload, and organizational efficiency<br>• Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the<br>support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes<br>to meet business needs.<br>• Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with<br>business needs and GIT objectives</p> <p><strong>Key Relationships:</strong><br>• Global IT<br>• Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)<br>• HR Management<br>• Controlling<br><br><strong>Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:</strong><br>• our-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related<br>areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience<br>• Proficient spoken and written command of English<br>• At least 7-year experience in IT<br>• 5 years of experience in relevant area<br>• 2 years of experience in team management<br>• Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the<br>respective customer<br>• Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects</p>