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adidas is seeking a Senior Specialist Order Book Fulfilment in Dubai to drive order book execution and ensure on time and in full delivery across all channels with strong customer service. The role focuses on maintaining the order book, analyzing status and product availability to improve conversions, ensuring policy compliance, coordinating campaigns and air freight priorities, and leading cross functional S&OP activities along with system testing and audits. Ideal candidates hold a bachelor’s in supply chain or business, 2 to 4 years in SCM or logistics within a multinational, advanced Excel, SAP and Power BI skills, and advanced English, plus leadership and communication. To apply, tailor your CV to show OTIF improvements, cross functional projects, and measurable impact, and highlight S&OP and IT system experience.
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Drive Order book execution activities by ensuring sales demand will be fulfilled on time and in full. Ensure high level of customer service is provided while fulfilling an on-time delivery for all distribution channels to meet Go To Market dates.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensures Order Book collection and the demand is maintained in the system accordingly.
- Analysis & reporting on order book status and product availability to ensure a high conversion of orders and on time to Market.
- Order book management and make sure all the transactions in system stick to the adidas internal policy and procedures.
- Overall controls the campaign and hard launch availability, make sure all the products are posted and according to the sign off plan.
- Alignment with Internal SCM teams on Air Freight priorities to ensure on time deliveries of critical articles.
- Tracking club / federation orders for on time embellishment and deliveries.
- Leading Internal SCM alignment for accurate Lead times maintenance in system.
- Represents OBF function output to internal stakeholders.
- Support on project & process improvement initiatives of OBF working efficiency.
- Leads system testing and make sure smoothly go live.
- Participate in cross-functional S&OP meetings (Planning, Purchasing, Sales).
- Provides support during internal and external auditing.
- On Time In Full KPI’s analysis and drive for improvement
- Other duties as assigned.
Key Relationships:
- Sales
- Finance
- SCM, Distribution center, 3PL’s
- IT
- CTC
Knowledge and Abilities:
- Extensive knowledge about overall Supply Chain processes,
- Team player, high degree of self-management, enthusiasm, drives to perform. Self-starter, ability to work and build cooperation across team members, strong in negotiation and finding compromise.
- Understanding of the bigger picture and end-to-end supply chain.
- Ability to work and deliver in changing environments, under very limited guidance.
- Motivating and leading a team.
- Outstanding communication skills.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree/University degree or higher in Supply chain or Business administration
- 2-4 years of overall work experience in Supply Chain/Logistics/Operations or customer service experience.
- Experience in a multi-national company.
IT Skills:
- Outlook: Good
- Word: Good
- Excel: Advanced
- PowerPoint: Good
- SAP: Good
- Power BI: Good
Language Skills: