Job Description

Pillar 1: Human Capital & Managerial Leadership

• Culture & Values: Embody and bring to life the company’s purpose, values, and the 8 human fundamentals within the team.
• Organizational Design: Define a target human organization structured to meet both current and future operational challenges.
• Talent Acquisition: Recruit and onboard complementary internal and external talent without compromising core hiring criteria.
• Team Well-being: Establish and maintain conditions that ensure personal and teammate well-being.
• Autonomy & Accountability: Implement management schemes that foster responsibility, autonomy, and individual/collective value creation.
• Performance Management: Drive performance metrics and execute necessary actions to achieve strategic objectives.
• Skill Development: Animate the continuous development of teammates’ current and future skills to sustain performance.
• Compliance & Ethics: Ensure strict alignment with legal, contractual obligations, and the corporate code of conduct.
• Compensation: Manage team compensation in strict alignment with internal corporate policies.
• Stakeholder Dialogue: Foster an environment that encourages open, transparent dialogue with all stakeholders.

Pillar 2: Economic & Extra-Financial Value Creation

• Strategic Alignment: Translate corporate and financial strategies into actionable plans that build shareholder value.
• Sustainable Performance: Balance and preserve Profit, Environmental, and Human/Social performance through rigorous tracking and strategic trade-offs.
• Value Sharing: Ensure value created is shared equitably among ecosystem stakeholders (customers, suppliers, teammates, government, shareholders, and society).
• Growth Levers: Lead the analysis of primary growth and profitability drivers.
• Multi-Capital Modeling: Connect business models to all relevant capitals, identifying value drivers while assessing and reporting potential multi-capital value destruction.
• Scenario Planning: Co-validate long-term targets and draft comprehensive multi-scenario strategic plans.
• Financial Literacy: Educate business leaders on new KPI trees (e.g., Sales Equation, Margin) and underlying value creation mechanisms.
• Data Narratives: Pair financial metrics with business narratives (e.g., Customer Lifetime Value) to guide teams on performance improvement.
• Innovation & Tech: Facilitate business transformation by identifying and leveraging market dynamics and new technologies.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Partner with data analytics teams to generate insights, drive predictive models, and test new business models.
• Procurement Optimization: Co-lead indirect purchasing functions to deliver targeted gains, optimize vendor pools, and apply local payment policies.
• Balance Sheet Optimization: Active monitoring to unlock Free Cash Flow (stock, AP, AR) and identify fixed asset liquidation or equity/borrowing optimizations.
• Cross-Functional Strategy: Assist vertical business units (Real Estate, Tech, Alliances, etc.) with local market knowledge to implement global strategies.

Pillar 3: Strategic Transformation & Sustainability

• Strategic Facilitation: Serve as the central catalyst for strategic management, aligning the business unit on objectives, opportunities, and threats.
• Success Factor Mapping: Define critical success factors (resources, capabilities, and competencies) relative to changing environmental trends.
• Resource Allocation: Dynamically allocate human and financial resources between business units to accelerate digital and circular business models.
• Business Model Development: Support the market positioning, marketing, and pricing strategies for new business models (digital, circular, marketplace).

Pillar 4: Governance, Compliance & Financial Reporting

• Board Representation: Balance high-performance requirements with strict compliance as an effective board member and legal representative.
• Data Integrity: Guarantee reliable, timely financial statements and non-financial data (e.g., carbon accounting, social impact) for internal and external stakeholders.
• Audit Management: Manage relationships with local and group auditors to ensure timely, low-risk audit results.
• Tax & Treasury Oversight: Oversee end-to-end VAT, transfer pricing, and tax processes while maintaining proactive relationships with local tax authorities.
• International Frameworks: Ensure local business decisions comply with global corporate obligations, including:
• Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence ( CSDD)
• Non-Financial Reporting Directive ( NFRD)
• Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive ( CSRD)

Pillar 5: Risk Management & Legal Oversight

• Internal Controls: Implement strict Risk Management frameworks and internal control policies to safeguard organizational objectives.
• Compliance Auditing: Monitor and control compliance levels via the annual Autodiag campaign.
• Legal Function Management: Oversee insurance, contracts, corporate governance, intellectual property, commercial law, compliance, and GDPR compliance.
• Contractual Governance: Enforce the Power of Attorney guidelines, delegation of commitments, and related invoice approval workflows in corporate tools.
• Risk Assessments: Perform regular, quantified business risk assessments across supply availability, customs, competition, HR, credit risk, and data privacy.

Pillar 6: Global Strategy & Finance Transformation

• Local Stewardship: Act as the local custodian of corporate financial strategies, translating and implementing them within the business unit.
• Finance Efficiency: Partner with the corporate finance team to increase compliance and operational efficiency.
• Corporate Standardization: Apply group-wide financial strategies, including:
• Mutualization of accounting, FP&A, and treasury functions.
• Standardization of tools, processes, and data.
• Strict accounting quality targets and finance digitalization.
• Working capital management and productivity reinforcement.
• Group Collaboration: Contribute local market expertise and needs to global corporate projects.

Pillar 7: Operational Excellence

• Business Partnering: Drive the Finance & Legal functions to deliver proactive business partnering, serving as a role model for transparency, ethics, and innovation.
• Agility & Efficiency: Ensure the Finance & Legal team remains highly adaptive, continuously optimizing its internal operational workflows.

Benefits

💰 A Remuneration That Grows With You:

• Salary in accordance with your experience
• Monthly bonus based on sales performance - up to 20%.
• Dive into the opportunity to become a Shareholder and share in the success of our global family.
• At the end of the year, reap the rewards of profit sharing based on the performances across the country.

🚀 Climb the Career Ladder

• Elevate your skills with the power of our internal Decathlon Academy – upskill and re-skill your way to greatness.
• Chart your course with local and global career progression opportunities (Zig-zag and/or specialization) in retail, procurement and support team.

❤️ Because We Care About You:

• We've got your well-being covered with comprehensive medical and insurance coverage.
• Enjoy a flexible spending allowance annually for Sports & Health related expenses, including dental, vision and wellness activities;
• Enjoy staff discount across ALL Decathlon products

🏋️‍♀️ Sports, Community, and Bonding:

• Kick off those shoes and join in the sports fun after work or during team meetings.
• Immerse yourself in a vibrant community of like-minded, sporty individuals just like you!

At Decathlon, we're not just a workplace – we're a lifestyle, and we want you to experience the very best. Join us and let's conquer the world of sports together! 🌟🏆🎉

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