Manager Accounts Payable

Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization At adidas, we have a clear purpose: “Through sport, we have the power to change lives.” This guiding principle shapes how we operate as a company, how we collaborate with our partners, how we create our products, and how we connect with our consumers. Our values represent essential behaviours and mindsets, reflecting the “You Got This” attitude we strive to see in every team member.

This same purpose and mindset are at the heart of Global Business Services (GBS) the team that delivers consistent, end-to-end business solutions across adidas. By driving process excellence and operational efficiency, GBS enables our partners to focus on what matters most: creating impact.

Within GBS, the Source to Pay (S2P) process plays a key role in ensuring a seamless vendor journey—from order creation to payment. It supports business growth through standardization, automation, and a strong vendor-centric approach.

The S2P Manager is responsible for ensuring compliance with global policies, leading strategic initiatives, and supporting the S2P Senior Manager. This role oversees Accounts Payable operations for the region—including postings, vendor reconciliations, and month-end close—serves as an escalation point for process-related issues and manages the AP team to ensure efficient operations and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to drive success and create value for the region, positively impacting market KPIs. Acting as a market ambassador by actively engaging stakeholders, listening to local/regional needs, and ensuring high compliance with market requirements.
• Identify and anticipate risks affecting market operations and performance, support issue resolution and prioritization effectively.
• Collaborate closely with Operations Leads and Functional Leads (globally located) within S2P to drive business growth and performance.
• Lead Business Performance Reviews and ensure action plans are implemented in alignment with market needs and S2P procedures.
• Manage the AP team, including coaching, training, motivation, and performance appraisal guidance.
• Ensure team members are trained and equipped with the necessary tools and resources to perform effectively.
• Maintain AP KPIs at optimal levels and provide visibility to stakeholders through dashboards and regular reporting.
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, and training of new team members.
• Develop and implement strategies to enhance team performance and productivity while fostering a positive and inclusive work environment that encourages teamwork, collaboration, and innovation.

Key Relationships

• Vendors across Americas region.
• Local Finance teams in the Americas.
• Employees across Americas region.
• Accounts Payable processing team.
• Global Process Owners.

Knowledge, Skills And Leadership Abilities Managers This section outlines a manager role and should incorporate the leadership framework behaviours as described above.

EXCEL

• Live your passion for the brand: Acts as a confident brand ambassador, spreading enthusiasm for adidas, its culture, products, and consumers. shares brand updates, understand diverse consumer needs and adapts accordingly.
• Act like it’s your own company: Balances global strategy with local needs, aligns team goals, seeks process improvements, and drives sustainable growth and profitability.
• Think Bigger and Beyond: Anticipates change, embraces ambiguity, and encourages innovation. Supports calculated risks, challenges the status quo, and drives continuous improvement.

EMPOWER

• Build a diverse team & foster inclusion: Creates diverse, high-performing teams in an inclusive, fair environment. Encourages open dialogue, values different perspectives, and celebrates individual and team achievements
• Engage and inspire: Connects and energizes the team with clear vision and motivating communication. Guides through challenges and promotes well-being and resilience.
• Develop talent: Iidentifies and creates development opportunities, provides fair access to growth, and fosters a culture of trust and continuous feedback.

ELEVATE

• Deliver results: Sets clear, achievable goals, prioritizes value-driven actions, ensures resources, and exemplify a hands-on mentality to overcome challenges.
• Promote accountability: Owns decisions with transparency, communicates expectations clearly, addresses conflicts constructively, and takes confident actions, even in challenging situations.
• Continue to grow yourself: Seeks feedback, reflects to increase self-awareness, embraces a learning mindset, and pursues growth beyond the comfort zone while promoting development within the team.

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Solid knowledge of S2P topics, such as Order Management, Accounts Payable, Payments, Vendor contact, Sourcing & Procurement Compliance. Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Accounts Payable and/or Procurement.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with strong influencing, analytical, and numerical capabilities.
• Proactive problem-solver with a positive attitude, high energy, and ability to drive change.
• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills; able to navigate complex organizations and engage diverse audiences.
• Strong understanding of finance, accounting, and procurement processes.
• Demonstrated experience in people management and leading medium-sized teams.
• Fluent in English and Spanish; Portuguese is a plus.

adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an equal opportunity employer.