Mission
This role serves as a hands-on Retail HR Business Partner, working closely with retail leaders and store teams to deliver end-to-end HR support that strengthens talent development, workforce effectiveness, and employee experience across assigned stores. It also plays a key role in new store openings and capability building, ensuring HR policies and programs are effectively implemented and continuously enhanced.
Key Responsibilities
- Retail HR Business Partnering: Act as the primary HR partner for assigned retail districts and stores; coach Store Managers on people leadership capabilities; analyze HR metrics; manage store-level HR matters and sensitive employee cases.
- Workforce Planning & Talent Acquisition: Partner with Retail leadership on workforce planning, hiring demand forecasting, store PEX, talent profiles, hiring quality, and new store openings.
- Employee Experience & Engagement: Oversee employee lifecycle processes, maintain compliance with local labor requirements, ensure accurate employee information, identify engagement challenges, drive action plans, and communicate company initiatives.
- Performance Management & Talent Development: Implement performance management processes, support talent reviews and succession planning, and provide insights to build talent pipelines.
- Project Support: Contribute to national and regional initiatives, deliver HR-related topics, and support HR systems, data management, and process optimization.
Key Relationships
Internal Retail Business Team, Retail COE, GCA HR Team, Legal & Internal Audit Team. External headhunting vendors, recruitment agencies, local government agencies, and labor authorities.
Knowledge, Skills and Capabilities
- Strong ownership, proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
- Business-oriented and hands-on approach in a fast-paced retail environment.
- Flexibility to visit stores regularly and support frontline teams.
- Collaborative and cross-functional team player.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or above.
- Minimum 3 years of HRBP experience.
- Retail or FMCG industry background preferred.
- Native Mandarin and fluent English.
Culture
At adidas, employees are encouraged to demonstrate courage, ownership, innovation, teamplay, integrity, and respect. The company emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion as part of its culture and talent processes.