Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: The purpose is to execute the purchasing activities for EM Central (Hyper Care for Ukraine Market). To ensure the right buy is made for the season and avoid disruption of the ordering process. To ensure best practices are followed for the buy process. To align the cut-off dates within the region and to serve as a steady link between market and Global process. Key Responsibilities: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Responsible to support Senior Manager Product Supply for successful execution of Buy Plan for Ukraine and serve as back up user for Kazakhstan and other East European markets. (Consolidation).</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Responsible for accurate and on time availability of Purchase Order across the markets.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Represent as SPOC for Forecasting by Co-ordinating with Channels, Demand Planning and Global FC team.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Preparation of seasonal timelines (calendars) and co-ordination with other teams. (IT, DP, CTC, Sales, CS) for Ukraine Prod Supply activities primarly and supporting other EMC markets .</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensuring Purchase order Tracking across all plants to support in brining transparency to stakeholders. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Responsible for providing relevant information regarding purchase order placement, cut-offs etc. to Customer Service, Sales, Marketing and Subsidiaries.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Responsible for improvisation of current Product Supply reports and development of new reports.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Analysing and building reports to avoid brining excess inventory.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Responsible for up-to-date updates on Purchasing Policies</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Support the Senior Manager Product Supply in driving new initiatives. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Responsible for generating reports on timely basis to the stakeholders along with Purchase order updates.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Coordinates with Global counterpart for different PO updates such as article’s quantity, size changes, replacement etc.</li> </ul> Key Relationships: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Global: Global SCP (Supply Chain Planning), Global SCO (Supply Chain Operation), Global IT.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">EM: Product Suply, Demand Planning, BU.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Regional: Product Supply, Customer Service, CTC, OBF, Sales & Finance</li> </ul> Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Supply Chain or Supply planning knowledge.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Advanced skills in Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and knowledge about ERP systems (SAP preferable) </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Good analytical, Strong communication and Presentation skills</li> <li style="font-size:10.0pt">Fluency in English and Ukrainian both spoken and written is mandatory.</li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">University degree in Business Administration/Logistics </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">3-5 years of overall work experience in Supply Chain/Purchasing/Logistics/Customer Service</li> </ul>

Senior Specialist Product Supply (Kiev, Kyiv, UA) @ adidas

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