Technology Consultant

Translates business needs into scalable digital, automation, data, and AI-enabled solutions. It supports the PD&S business with specific applications and provides expert advisory services, partnering closely with Sourcing business stakeholders to deliver measurable business value through applications, workflow automation, and AI-enabled tools. The role works with Global Tech, business functions, process owners, product owners, super users, cross-functional project teams, and external suppliers or implementation partners where applicable.

• Investigate operational needs, process inefficiencies, data gaps, and business pain points, and support demand prioritisation based on business value, feasibility, risk, reusability, and alignment with customer needs.
• Define and manage scoping, requirements definition, prioritisation, and change management for digital and automation initiatives, applying structured techniques to elicit, document, validate, and baseline business, data, integration, security, and reporting requirements.
• Provide constructive challenge to stakeholders to ensure requirements are clear, feasible, measurable, and aligned with standard processes, and review requirements for errors, omissions, dependencies, and compliance before solution build or handover.
• Document traceability from business problem to solution design, test cases, adoption plan, and business outcome, and assist in defining acceptance criteria, user validation approach, and benefit tracking for delivered solutions.
• Design, configure, test, and support digital solutions by leveraging approved AI tools available in adidas together with technologies such as Power Platform, Python automation, SQL databases, Dataverse, Office Scripts, and enterprise collaboration tools.
• Build reusable automation components, reports, apps, and workflows that improve process efficiency, data quality, and user experience
• Collaborate with technical teams to define integration approaches, data models, access controls, and support models
• And document solution design, known issues, test results, deployment steps, and operational handover materials to agreed standards.
• Design and maintain AI agents and agent skills that support repeatable business scenarios, knowledge retrieval, guided workflows, and productivity improvement, and define their purpose, scope, instructions, knowledge sources, actions, escalation rules
• And responsible AI boundaries in line with company policies.
• Use approved AI and automation tools to prototype, validate, and scale solutions that improve search, reporting, workflow execution, and decision support, and create user guidance, adoption materials, and feedback loops to improve AI-agent quality, usability, and business impact.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve issues across applications, reports, workflows, databases, and AI-enabled tools in line with agreed procedures, and monitor solution performance, usage, data quality, and adoption metrics using application management, analytics, and reporting tools.
• Perform agreed maintenance, enhancement, access review, and documentation tasks to ensure stable operations and continuous improvement, and provide hands-on support and advisory to business users to enable effective adoption of new digital and automation capabilities.

• Four-year college or university degree with focus on Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficient spoken and written command of English and Chinese; able to communicate effectively with global stakeholders.
• At least 5 years of experience in IT, business technology consulting, application delivery, or related areas.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in relevant solution delivery areas, including project management, requirements analysis, enterprise application rollout, process automation, or software development.
• Proficiency in using adidas-approved AI tools along with Python, VBA, Office Scripts, Power Apps, and Smartsheet to propose and develop IT solutions.
• Solid SQL database knowledge, including data querying, data modelling fundamentals, data quality checks, and database-driven reporting or automation scenarios.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Query, Power BI, and Power Automate, with the ability to design, build, test, deploy, and support business-facing solutions.
• Capability to design Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Studio-based AI agents and agent skills, including defining agent purpose, instructions, topics, knowledge sources, actions, guardrails, testing approach, and continuous improvement process.
• Familiar with Product Creation and Sourcing business processes and operations.
• Understanding of different cultures and the ability to work effectively with people from other functions, markets, and global teams.

• Experience in team coordination, stakeholder management, vendor collaboration, or cross-functional project delivery is preferred.

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