Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization
Lead the Non-Trade Procurement and Travel organization for North America, enabling adidas to create measurable enterprise value through strategic sourcing, supplier innovation, disciplined governance, AI-enabled insights, and future-ready procurement capabilities.
• Define, commit to, and deliver market Procurement goals aligned with the NAM CFO, global Procurement performance expectations, savings targets, innovation priorities, and business stakeholder needs.
• Implement best-in-class Procurement and Travel Management methods, processes, policies, governance standards, and digital tools across the market, ensuring compliance, transparency, and speed of execution.
• Leading the market's Travel Management strategy to deliver cost-effective, efficient, compliant, and safe travel programs that support business objectives and employee experience.
• Future-proof the Procurement function by embedding AI, automation, advanced analytics, and data-driven decision-making into source-to-pay activities, enabling teams to move beyond transactional execution toward strategic value creation for adidas.
Key Responsibilities
• Translate the global Procurement strategy into clear North America priorities, actionable roadmaps, and measurable outcomes that support adidas business performance.
• Deliver annually agreed savings, value creation, risk mitigation, and productivity targets for the market.
• Regularly report and communicate market targets in alignment with global Procurement targets.
• Shape a long-term Procurement agenda and Global Procurement leadership, ensuring North America market requirements, future capability needs, and adidas strategic priorities are represented.
• Lead, drive, and develop market teams; develop and manage top specialized talent and capabilities within the market.
• Drive capability development in the market regarding new capabilities, process and technology standardization, leading practice sharing, and talent development.
• Champion responsible AI adoption across Procurement by building data literacy, strengthening governance, improving supplier intelligence, and enabling faster, better-informed decisions across spend, risk, demand, and supplier performance.
• Prioritize, initiate, and manage continuous improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate impact assessments of changing requirements within the market, including legislation and policies.
• Work together with Senior Global Category Directors to position market-specific procurement requirements at a global level.
• Develop and oversee market travel category strategies and travel supplier portfolios, ensuring alignment with global Procurement and Travel objectives.
• Drive optimization of travel and meetings programs to improve operational efficiency, employee experience, compliance, and financial performance.
• Ensure market travel requirements and priorities are represented within global category strategies and travel program governance.
Manage the Procurement organization on a market level
• Lead the Procurement organization in accordance with adidas management principles, supporting the organization's focus on performance, talent management, values, leadership, and self-management practices.
• Drive implementation of Procurement Leadership Team decisions at market and country levels.
• Manage the quality of the end-to-end source-to-pay process, including compliance with policies, strategies, and processes within the market.
• Manage the Procurement budget within the market, overseeing financial performance through cost-effectiveness analysis and cost control activities.
• Monitor and support successful execution and implementation of sourcing strategies, including stakeholder alignment and customer satisfaction.
• Prioritize support requests and communicate priorities transparently to stakeholders.
• Agree and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Operational Level Agreements (OLAs) between Procurement, GBS service delivery, and the business.
• Develop, align, and execute an annual action plan to advance the Procurement function.
• Develop and implement a market Procurement succession plan.
• Provide strategic leadership and governance for the North America Travel Management function.
• Lead and develop the Travel team through direct management of the Sr. Manager, Travel, ensuring strong talent development, succession planning, performance management, and organizational capability.
• Oversee travel policy implementation, compliance management, traveler communications, and continuous improvement initiatives across the market.
• Ensure effective governance and oversight of travel booking, meetings and events, traveler communications, and travel risk management programs.
• Monitor and evaluate travel program performance through KPIs, supplier scorecards, compliance metrics, spend analytics, and stakeholder feedback.
• Partner with Finance, HR, Security, Legal, and IT to ensure effective management of travel-related processes, systems, controls, and duty-of-care requirements.
Act as Point of Contact for market stakeholders and the market/country management team
• Manage stakeholder relationships and satisfaction, acting as a trusted business partner and representing Procurement within the market organization.
• Strive for alignment between Procurement category strategies, sourcing implementation, and market P&L delivery.
• Build and strengthen key customer relationships to drive stakeholder satisfaction across the business and countries.
• Serve as the senior market representative for Travel Management, advising executive stakeholders on travel strategy, policy, supplier performance, traveler experience, and spend optimization opportunities.
• Partner with business leaders to ensure travel programs effectively support commercial objectives while balancing cost, risk, compliance, and employee experience.
Support key sourcing initiatives and management of core suppliers
• Review and advise category strategies for major market spend categories.
• Develop and lead partnerships with selected strategic suppliers.
• Provide executive oversight of strategic sourcing, contract negotiations, and supplier relationship management for travel-related categories, including airlines, hotels, car rental providers, travel management companies, meetings and events providers, and other travel-related suppliers.
• Partner with Global Procurement and Global Travel stakeholders to leverage enterprise agreements, drive supplier performance, and identify innovation opportunities.
• Ensure effective management of key travel suppliers through performance reviews, risk assessments, savings initiatives, and continuous improvement activities.
Key Relationships
• Global Procurement and other market Procurement leads, CFOs of respective markets, Country Senior Managers, GBS Service Delivery, and Market Category Managers
• NAM Finance and other senior business and functional leaders, including Legal, Supply Chain Management, Retail, and Operations
• NAM FD and all other senior business and functional leaders
• Head of Global Travel Management
• Global Travel Team
• Sr. Manager, Travel
• Corporate Security / Risk Management
• HR Leadership
• Travel Management Company (TMC)
• Key suppliers across applicable procurement, travel, technology, data, and AI-enabled capability categories
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Expert in sourcing and procurement methodologies, concepts, execution processes, and supplier management.
• Expert in implementation of Shared Service Centers in the context of Procurement.
• Expert in implementation of procure-to-pay tools and related processes.
• Extremely strong knowledge of Procurement strategy development and execution.
• Proven track record of driving and successfully delivering Procurement transformation initiatives.
• Advanced knowledge of Procurement tools, data, content, and automation.
• Strong ability to analyze specifications and influence demand.
• Expert in risk and compliance management.
• Extensive capability to independently interact and influence across the adidas Group.
• International experience working in global and matrixed organizations.
• Strong end-to-end Source-to-Pay process management knowledge and experience.
• Strong understanding of corporate travel management, including policy governance, traveler safety, supplier management, and duty-of-care principles.
• Deep expertise in strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management across indirect spend and travel categories.
• Proven ability to manage large-scale travel programs and complex supplier ecosystems while balancing cost, traveler experience, and compliance.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing travel spend, supplier performance, savings initiatives, and reporting.
• Excellent analytical, presentation, communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
• Strong change management experience.
• Action-oriented and solution-minded team player with a high degree of self-management.
• Proficiency in MS Office, e-sourcing (Ariba), and P2P tools (SRM/Ariba).
• Fluent in English, spoken and written.
• Ability to travel up to 30%.
• At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications
• Master's degree with emphasis in Business, Economics, Finance, Procurement, Legal, or a related field, or comparable professional education.
• At least 12-15 years of experience in similar or equivalent procurement leadership roles within international organizations, including strong people management responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading large indirect spend categories, strategic supplier relationships, and enterprise-wide sourcing initiatives.
• Experience overseeing corporate travel programs, travel suppliers, and/or travel-related procurement categories.
• Strong people leadership experience, including leading managers and developing high-performing teams within global matrix organizations.
