About the Role
The role leads a team of operations within HR Services, following the adidas GBS culture and strategy. It assesses team needs, drives achievement of operational goals and targets, ensures deliverables expected by the business, and develops the team’s skills through the adidas performance culture. The position sits within People & Culture in the GBS Porto organisation and works closely with the GBS Porto Leadership Team, Market BPs, Operational Teams, Area GPO Team, and GBS Porto Internal Controls & Compliance and Delivery Excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a team of between 4 and up to 15 people, ensuring full responsibility for team performance and execution in accordance with defined KPIs and Stream strategy.
- Ensure team management, including coaching, training, motivation and performance appraisal guidance, identifying improvement opportunities and implementing development action plans.
- Support and actively participate in the recruiting process for the team.
- Actively participate in the Employee Life Cycle, contributing relevant inputs to management and the HR Team.
- Prepare and support new team members’ functional onboarding and integration into the team and company culture.
- Ensure good relationships with stakeholders, the global functional team, and cross‑functional stakeholders on a proactive basis, and monitor customer service.
- Supervise daily operations by adhering to defined SLAs and ensuring team KPIs are maintained, achieved, and reported correctly and in a timely manner.
- Handle escalations by providing support in the resolution of complaints and issues as needed.
- Analyse problems and propose or assess solutions, and implement them accordingly.
- Ensure data quality and integrity across various systems and tools, and perform quality checks on the team’s work output.
- Perform or ensure day‑to‑day responsibilities are completed in accordance with internal standards, such as desktop procedures.
- Monitor work requests and allocation, including ticketing and e-mails.
- During transitions, ensure the necessary preparation and organisation to receive and include new tasks or new work.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- University degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, or a related field.
- 4+ years of relevant work experience in HR Operations, Shared Services, or Business Services environments.
- Proven work experience in people management or demonstrated ability to manage a medium‑sized team.
- Broad and deep theoretical understanding of the job function.
- Highly results driven and self‑motivated team player.
- People‑oriented and passionate about leadership.
- Curious and growth mindset, keen to learn and approach subjects outside of comfort zone, looking beyond the obvious.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Experience in a fast‑paced environment, shared services, or similar.
- Solid business acumen.
- E2E process knowledge and respective interactions with other teams.
- Ability to read, write, and communicate in English in a business setting.
- Ability to pay close attention to detail and high degree of customer orientation.
Preferred Skills
About the Company
The company believes that embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into its culture and talent processes gives employees a sense of belonging and the brand a competitive advantage.