Manager Risk Management (m/f)

Job description

Country: Germany                                              
Job Function: Legal / SEA

State / Province: Germany                                
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Herzogenaurach                                   
Brand: adidas Group

Relocation: Yes

Purpose & Overall Relevance for Organisation:

The purpose of Group Risk Management is to facilitate and support informed, risk-conscious decision-making across the Group.  This includes maintenance and further development of a comprehensive and consistent enterprise risk management system that helps safeguard the Group’s operations and supports business performance.

The Manager Risk Management supports and trains assigned business partners (risk owners and primarily risk coordinators) in the documentation and evaluation of risks, opportunities and mitigating actions and challenges risk assessments. In addition, the Manager Risk Management manages risk and opportunity reporting, conducts ad-hoc analysis of risks and opportunities and provides expertise on the Group’s risk management system (incl. IT application BWise) towards business partners.

Key Responsibilities:

·  Partner with assigned risk owners and risk coordinators globally (i.e. facilitators appointed by risk owners to manage risk assessments), provide risk management-related training, guidance and support, and challenge risk and opportunity assessments.
·  Enable fact-based decisions by creating transparency on risks, risk-mitigating actions and opportunities across the Group.
·  Develop and implement adequate communication packages for risk management and, where appropriate, give recommendations and propose solutions.
·  Create standardized or customized risk and opportunity reports and provide ad-hoc analysis.
·  Maintain and continuously improve IT application BWise used for enterprise risk management. 
·  Provide expertise for risk management system (incl. IT application BWise) and processes towards own team and business partners (e.g. risk coordinators, Group Compliance, Group Policies & Internal Controls).
·  Improve day-to-day processes and systems of the Group Risk Management department.
·  Provide input into new processes or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on the department targets.
·  Support development and implementation of analytical tools for risk management.
·  Support communication and negotiation or, within the assigned area of responsibility, independently communicate and negotiate with internal (e.g. risk owners, risk coordinators, closely-related governance functions such as Group Compliance, Group Internal Audit or Group Policies & Internal Controls, etc.) and external (e.g. IT service providers, external auditors, consultants, etc.) stakeholders.
·  Actively keep up to date with latest trends in field of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

·  Deep business understanding of processes and structure
·  High degree of customer orientation
·  Ability to manoeuvre in consistently changing environment
·  Ability to operate cross-functionally (i.e. work with stakeholders from various functions and various locations) and understanding of external business drivers
·  Understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics within a multi-national company
·  Very good analytical skills (e.g. qualitative and quantitative analysis, statistical analysis, scenario analysis) managing large data quantities from multiple sources
·  Very good communication skills for persuasion and convincing others both internally and externally
·  Experience in Project Management a plus
·  Business fluency in English (written and spoken), other languages a plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

·  University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Controlling or Business Law or equivalent professional background in Risk Management
·  Strong understanding of Risk Management IT systems (e.g. BWise) and Business Intelligence software (e.g. SAP Business Objects)
·  Advanced Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook) skills
·  3-8 years professional experience, thereof at least 1 year in a governance role (i.e. Risk Management, Compliance, Internal Audit or Internal Controls), Corporate Finance role or in a GRC-related consultancy role; ideally experience in an international environment within Consumer Goods Industry

We look forward to receiving your applications!