Senior Director Product Ownership Connectivity

vor 2 Monaten


Herzogenaurach, Deutschland Adidas Vollzeit

Tech Team: Tech Enablement - Tech Core
Product Area: Connectivity- Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Our Senior Director Connectivity will leverage deep technology expertise bringing our internal network to the next level. In this role you will be leading a global team of +25 people across our IT locations and take responsibility for the foundation delivery and operation of our sophisticated and cutting-edge IT Connectivity Infrastructure. This includes Network LAN, WAN, Wireless and Network Security related topic for over 2000 Retail and 1000 office locations. This person will act as a sparring partner and technology counterpart to all related IT and business areas within adidas on global level.- Key Responsibilities:
- Innovation
- Manages the innovation pipeline and executes innovation processes.
- Develops, evolves, and adapts innovation tools, processes, and infrastructures to drive the process of innovation.
- Identifies resources and capabilities needed to support innovation.
- Encourages and motivates innovation communities, teams, and individuals to share creative ideas and learn from failures.
- Manages and facilitates the communication and open flow of creative ideas between interested parties and the set-up of innovation networks and communities.
- Research
- Builds on and refines appropriate outline ideas for the evaluation, development, demonstration, and implementation of research.
- Contributes to research goals and funding proposals.
- Collects and analyses qualitative and quantitative data as required.
- Creates research reports to communicate research methodology, findings, and conclusions.
- Presents papers at conferences, contribute significant sections of material of publication quality, and presents reports to clients.
- Contributes to research plans and identifies appropriate opportunities for publication and dissemination of research findings.
- Makes an active contribution to research communities.
- Portfolio, program, and project support
- Takes responsibility for the provision of portfolio, program, and project support.
- Advises on the available standards, procedures, methods, tools, and techniques.
- Evaluates project and/or program performance and recommends changes where necessary.
- Contributes to reviews and audits of project and program management to ensure conformance to standards.
- Business analysis
- Takes responsibility for investigative work to determine business requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements in information systems, information management, practices, procedures, and organization change.
- Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate business analysis methods, tools, and techniques, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Collaborates with stakeholders at all levels, in the conduct of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.
- Prepares business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.

Requirements definition and management
- Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for large, complex initiatives.
- Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Obtains input from, and formal agreement to, requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.
- Establishes requirements baselines.
- Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.
- Contributes to the development of organizational methods and standards.
- Release and deployment
- Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk.
- Liaises with business and IT partners on release scheduling and communication of progress.
- Conducts post release reviews.
- Ensures release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed.
- Identifies, evaluates, and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment tools, techniques, and processes (including automation).
- Relationship management
- Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.
- Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.
- Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining, and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
- Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.
- Facilitates business decision-making processes.
- Captures and disseminates technical and business information.
- Product man



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