• Strategic Technology Leadership: Develop and execute the company's technology vision and strategy in alignment with business goals, ensuring a competitive edge in the industries we operate in.• Innovation and Digital Transformation: Spearhead digital initiatives, leverage emerging technologies, and identify opportunities for disruptive innovation to enhance business operations and profitability.• Team Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing technology team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.• Cybersecurity and Data Management: Implement robust cybersecurity measures and oversee data management, ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of critical information assets.• Infrastructure and Cloud Management: Manage IT infrastructure and cloud resources to optimize efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.• Technology Partnerships: Identify and establish strategic partnerships with technology vendors, startups, and industry leaders to drive synergies and stay ahead of industry trends.• Budget Management: Develop and manage technology budgets, ensuring efficient resource allocation and cost control. • Regulatory Compliance: Stay abreast of industry regulations and ensure the company's technology operations comply with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.

• Align strategic IS plans with business objectives. Clearly communicate the objectives and associated accountabilities so they are understood by all, with the IS strategic options identified, structured and integrated with the business plans • Achieve competitive advantage, business innovation, and improved operational effectiveness and efficiency by exploiting information technology developments• Manages and delivers IS Roadmap • Fosters partnership between IS and other departments to enable the effective and efficient use of IS-related resources and provide transparency and accountability of the cost and business value of solutions and services • Defines and implement key business partnership with external vendors within market in alignment with procurement • Leads and manage the implementation of IS security and policies• Ensures the business roles, responsibilities, levels of authority and segregation of duties. This ensures that the business knows where the data are and who is handling data on its behalf• Leads the IS team to create and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) within the IS function • Implement a decision-making process to prioritize the allocation of resources and rules for discretionary investments by DepartmentsCompleted/Ongoing Projects:- Global MS Dynamics CRM & Loyalty Project (Role: IT Project Sponsor - 2021)- Manhattan Associates Omnichannel Order Management System Project (Role: IT Project Sponsor - 2022)- Digital Employee Experience Project (Role: IT Project Sponsor – 2021)- Hybris E-Commerce Project (Role: IT Project Sponsor - 2021)- Data Warehouse & Business Analytics Project (Role: IT Project Sponsor - 2021)- RPA Project (Role: IT Project Sponsor - 2021)- NCR Store Transformation Project (UX, Software, Hardware, Role: IT Project Sponsor - 2020)

• Drive IT Strategy for revenue growth by supporting business functions, streamlining processes and implementing global standards• Being the primary contact point for the General Manager and the leadership team, setting IT strategy and priorities for Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Poland and Franchise countries (Kuwait, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Kosovo).• Being accountable for delivery, for customer satisfaction and ensures a highly efficient and productive IT service delivery leveraging English Home and partner resources appropriately.• Developing and maintaining value creating IT services for the business; facilitating joint business decision making from a cross-functional perspective; driving adoption of common infrastructure solutions and development processes and defining and executing an effective collaboration with key customers and stakeholders.• Manages business demand on IT and prioritizes the demand against available IT capacity• Drives the processes to ensure all IT demand is captured and proposes technology solutions to future business challenges• Expert evaluation of the Company business processes and identifying where IT can be an enabler for these processes.• The point of escalation for the business in all the markets of own scope and is responsible in planning and running each market budgets.• Managing many highly inter-related IT applications supporting complex business processes of the market• Leads IT team • Approve and oversee projects and project portfolio• Implement IT policies and procedures, including those for architecture, security, disaster recovery, IT-standards, purchasing and service provisioning.

• Lead IT Department with providing vision, leadership and governance of the IT strategy and architecture, ensuring alignment with the Tadım Strategy and industry practice• Manage the provision of secure and stable IT services to support business outcomes through effective risk management strategies• Identify and evaluate opportunities for business-led innovation and development to deliver IT solutions that meet internal and external customer needs• Create and maintain highly professional, customer oriented, innovative and future-focused IT capability within the company• Establish and maintain value-based stakeholder and strategic supplier relationships which meet business requirements• Manage IT annual budget • Ensure compliance of ERP systems with IT policies and procedures• Participate actively to the Analytics Platform Management Board consists of executive committee members.

- Accountable for operating of Wholesale, Retail, Marketing ERP and automation systems.- Ensure seamless project delivery with GIT and Business partners- Ensure compliance of ERP systems with IT policies and global standards- Manage personnel and outside contractors in Zone countries- Plan IT Department budget for the following year and monitor actual charges in line with work performed- Monitors the performance of vendors to ensure quality in service- Ensure IT systems supporting the business are operating effectively- Identify and steer adidas Group Lead Turkey Retail lead in a timely and comprehensive manner- Ensure that business requests are communicated to and addressed by the appropriate resources- Follow-up to ensure that the user requirements or issues are resolved- Ensure business requirements are clearly articulated in functional specification documentation- Leverage, recommend and implement Global Solutions/Functions whenever possible- Implement the roll out of Retail automation tools across Lead Turkey Organizations.- Completed/Ongoing Projects : • Zone Middle Stores Win7 Migration Project (Role : Project Manager / 2013) • E-Invoice Project Supplier Evaluation and Project Implementation (Role : Project Manager/ 2013) • SAP Payroll Project (Role : Project Manager / 2013 - 2014) • adidas Group EM North Full Cycle SAP Project (Role : IT Project Manager / 2013-2015) • adidas Group EM North CRM Project (Role : IT Project Manager/2015-2016)

- Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Standards and Guidelines, ensuring GLOBE Standards documents are reaching the relevant persons on the unit and are deployed as described within the timelines imposed- Reactive Compliance, acting as SPOC for the resolution of findings from internal or external audits that concern the unit. This includes as well the reporting and coordination with other units for the resolution of global findings that may require action on several or all units, in particular with BTC, GLOBE ISIT Services and RGOs- Proactive Compliance, responsible for the operational execution of compliance proactive activities, including in particular the evaluation of risks, the setting of controls and the realization of self assessments for GLOBE within the unit, reporting results and coordinating with the GLOBE GRC team in Vevey as requested- Working with business to define gaps and setting proper implementation according to best practices- Managing outsourcing projects and suppliers- Preparing functional specifications and doing Change Request testing in valid environment- Checking info cube data load status and contents- Coordinating & doing necessary actions and managing implementations of Global solutions and projects which has to be inline with best practices- Working with the Report Author and DSS Champion to understand business requirements and converting these to relevant SAP BW & IBM Cognos - Designing, contracting, publishing and maintaining all market specific Framework Manager packages for all relevant sources- Preparing SAP Business Objects Xcelsius dashboards and training superusers- B2B, B2C, EDI, and Systems Integration- Managed Projects :• Nestle Balaban Full Cycle ERP Project• SAP BW Security Upgrade to Analysis Authorisations Project• SAP EDI Despatch Advice Message for Key Accounts • Erikli Nestle Waters Microsoft Dynamics AX Full Cycle ERP Project Analysis• SAP Business Objects Xcelsius Market Deployment

- Analyzing the user and system requirements and developing new programmes- ABAP which is the programming language of SAP software was used in most of the development projects- Providing the coordination between business functions and application development team- Preparing the technical and user documentation of the projects- Sales and distribution, production, finance and basis customizing were done in SAP- Completed projects :• SAP ERP 6.0 Installation Project Finance Module Developments (2010)• Direct Debit System Integration between Kerim Çelik and Banks (2009-2010)• SAP User Authorization Project (2009)• Reconfiguration of SAP Servers Lean 6 Sigma Expert Green Belt Project (2010)