Agile Expert_ - Area: adidas IT, Sales Tech - Subsidiary/Country: Colombia - Location: Bogotá - GSMS Grade: M4 - Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: - The role of agile expert supports teams or individuals adopt and improve agile methods and practices. They ensure that the agreed agile process is followed. They also help to remove impediments and foster an environment for high performing team dynamics. They provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies. - Key Responsibilities: - Portfolio, program and project support Assists with the compilation of portfolio, program and project management reports. - Maintains program and project files from supplied actual and forecast data. - Business analysis Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organization. - Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations. - Measurement Applies standard techniques to support the specification of measures and the collection and maintenance of data for measurement. - Generates, produces and distributes reports. - Uses measurement tools for routine analysis of data. - Identifies and implements improvements to data collection methods. - Learning delivery Delivers learning activities to a variety of audiences. - Teaches, instructs, trains students/learners in order to develop knowledge, techniques and skills using appropriate methods, tools, online environments, equipment and materials. - Oversees students/learners in performing practical activities and work, advising and assisting where necessary. - Provides detailed instruction where necessary and responds to questions, seeking advice in exceptional conditions beyond own experience. - Assists with the development of examples and case study material for use within predefined learning material. - Relationship management Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan. - Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. - Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. - Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships - If required: People Management / Resource Management: May be involved and gives some input on hiring Transition decisions - Ensures appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development - Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload and organizational efficiency - Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs. - Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives - Key Relationships: Global IT - Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail) - HR (Senior) Management - Controlling - Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience - Proficient spoken and written command of English - At least 5-year experience in IT - 2 years of experience in relevant area - 1 year of experience in team management - Understanding of different culture - Participated in projects with people from other functions/market - Summary of Key Skills for this specific Position:_ - _Very good English skills (written and spoken)_ - _Good knowledge about OmniChannel, eComm and Retail business would be beneficial_ - _Very good communication skills to manage team, stakeholders, challenges, and escalations_ - _Ideally worked in international or global environments before_ - _Has a solid background about Agile Methodology (and optional Project Mgmt.)_ - _Can translate complex situations into well structured & digestible information for the Team and Stakeholders_ - _Experience to manage external team members_ AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR. COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need.. OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through