Purpose
A key player in Global Sourcing, driving Sourcing’s vision to be the most agile, competitive, digitalized, and cleanest supply base in the industry. Manage costing performance of the Sourcing Liaison Offices through implementation of costing strategies, policies, processes, systems, and standards, assuring company go-in margin targets are met and optimizing landed costs through a clear understanding of economic trends and trade opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure execution of standard costing processes, lead relevant costing teams and the Tier 1 costing team in achieving target Free On Board goals within scheduled timelines, and ensure implementation of adidas policies, procedures, and costing strategies.
- Train and assist Sourcing Operations teams and Tier 1 suppliers in understanding and applying cost drivers, costing frameworks and standards, policies, processes, and consistent, accurate, transparent cost sheets.
- Collect relevant data and information for selected products, ranges, or categories and participate in projects.
- Execute costing audits and propose improvement areas with supplier partners.
- Facilitate compliance with and improvement of global costing policies, procedures, and new systems by providing feedback to Sourcing Costing and Sourcing Operations.
- Facilitate cost-saving discussions with product creation teams, including proposals for yield efficiency and mold cavity improvements, and act as the escalation contact for surcharges.
- Collaborate with Development, Materials, and other key functions within the liaison office and factories to ensure products are developed to cost targets.
- Ensure sourcing operations and practices comply with adidas’ Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy, adidas standards, and legal requirements.
- Model leadership that fosters a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong understanding of product construction and manufacturing operations, specializing in product costing, product development, or production.
- Strong understanding of country, regional, and global cost drivers and end-to-end costing and sourcing processes.
- Strong analytical and systematic approach to consolidating and communicating information.
- Good presentation, negotiation, influencing, people, and communication skills.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills and ability to work with Product Data Management Systems.
Qualifications
- University degree or technical degree in apparel, footwear, or manufacturing.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in the apparel and footwear industry with costing responsibility.
Additional Details
Team: Supply Chain & Sourcing
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Contract Type: Full time
Job Number: 549194
Date: October 6, 2026