Senior Director Non-Trade Procurement, NAM (Indirect Procurement)

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 applic