Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization
Establish and manage the Sportswear apparel operations in Asia, ensuring strategic alignment and implementation across functions according to the overall Business Unit and Brand direction. Focus on SMUs and Rapid Creation to align with customer behavior and market trends. Leverage factory proximity to optimize processes. Collaborate on technical aspects, materials, and speed to market, driving efficiency and margins.
Manage projects and cross-functional interactions with Design, Marketing, Sourcing, T1 and T2, ensuring strategic alignment and effective implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Be an integral part of a team that will establish the end-to-end process for this new operating model, emphasizing strong partnerships and collaboration with suppliers.
- Pilot the approach in the first season, ensuring seamless integration and optimization of processes to enhance speed, efficiency, and product value.
- Facilitate and coordinate large groups and meetings from HQ or with sourcing, T1 and T2 partners.
- Ensure effective communication, agenda setting, follow-up actions, and alignment on project goals, timelines, and deliverables.
- Address and resolve issues or roadblocks and foster collaboration across stakeholders.
- Drive the product process to deliver against the brief, materials and design innovation, meeting gross margin and profitability objectives.
- Manage tools and range plans, create product overviews, communicate development changes, and consolidate and analyze forecasts.
- Maintain all related product systems for the designated area of the collection.
- Continually improve processes to drive a leading product process with speed and efficiency.
- Work cross-functionally with sourcing, development and manufacturing partners to realize product and category visions.
- Analyze and report category performance and research the competitive landscape.
- Ensure all product milestones are achieved in a fast-paced creation process.
- Present the range internally and to cross-functional partners such as factory groups.
Key Relationships
Global Strategic Hub, Design, Sourcing, Factory Groups, T2 Suppliers, Subsidiaries, Materials, Costing, Operations, and Go-To-Market.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong business acumen in channel distribution, net sales, margin, profit and inventory.
- Broad apparel product knowledge across apparel, pattern, apparel construction, materials and trims.
- Experience in development and working knowledge of product marketing, costing, materials, and collaboration with T1 and T2 suppliers.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the product life cycle from design sketch phase to ex-factory.
- Ability to influence all organizational levels and align external partners with the apparel strategy.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced product creation environment.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with the ability to negotiate.
- Effective presentation skills, including creating and presenting materials.
- Skill in Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Fluent in English, verbal and written.
- Ability to travel internationally for T1 and T2 supplier visits and internal meetings and presentations.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications
- University degree, preferably in marketing or business.
- Minimum five years of related experience in marketing.
- Experience in apparel development, creation and sourcing is advantageous.
- International marketplace experience and understanding.
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.