Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization
Support the Sr. Manager, Inbound Logistics in translating the regional inbound strategy into disciplined execution across LT2 Origin Planning and LT3 Destination Planning & Visibility. This role strengthens inbound availability, execution flexibility, visibility, and accountability while helping build a high-performing, results-driven culture across LAM markets.
This is an execution-focused people leadership role combining adaptability, analytical thinking, and a transformation mindset. Candidates may come from supply chain, consulting, transformation, or other relevant business functions. Logistics experience is preferred, but the ability to learn quickly, translate strategy into practical execution, lead teams, and drive adoption of improved ways of working is critical.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Excellence
- Support the Sr. Manager in translating regional inbound strategy into clear priorities, execution routines, governance forums, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead LT2 Origin Planning and LT3 Destination Planning & Visibility routines to protect inbound availability, service commitments, and market readiness.
- Translate market priorities, business risks, volume forecasts, and operational constraints into actionable plans with ownership, timelines, escalation paths, and follow-up discipline.
- Enhance execution flexibility by aligning inbound solutions with commercial priorities, market requirements, service expectations, and evolving business needs.
- Monitor performance, risks, exceptions, and improvement opportunities through established governance routines.
People Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- Lead and coach a team of Sr. Specialists across Origin and Destination Planning.
- Foster ownership and accountability through delegation, structured follow-up, coaching, and performance management.
- Build a results-oriented culture grounded in collaboration, trust, adaptability, accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Develop team capabilities in business execution, analytics, stakeholder management, digital adoption, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ensure alignment between day-to-day execution, the Inbound Hub strategy, regional priorities, and targeted business outcomes.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Digital Enablement
- Drive adoption of Lakehouse, Databricks, Power BI, dashboards, and other digital solutions.
- Promote simplification, standardization, scalable improvements, and stronger governance.
- Translate operational and business pain points into enhancement opportunities, automation initiatives, reporting improvements, and scalable use cases.
- Support data reliability, reporting accuracy, and risk visibility across critical systems and decision forums.
- Use analytics to identify trends, understand performance drivers, anticipate risks, and support fact-based decision-making.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Strong execution discipline and ability to translate strategy into actionable priorities, routines, and measurable outcomes.
- Growth and transformation mindset with agility to learn quickly.
- Strong analytical and process-oriented thinking.
- Experience using Power BI, dashboards, or similar analytics tools.
- Understanding of logistics, supply chain, business transformation, consulting, or operational environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- People leadership capabilities including coaching, delegation, expectation setting, accountability, and performance feedback.
Qualifications
- University degree or equivalent qualification required.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in business execution, transformation, consulting, supply chain, logistics, or related operational areas.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience managing people, projects, or cross-functional workstreams.
- Experience with cross-functional teams, markets, logistics partners, and regional or global stakeholders preferred.
- Experience in logistics is an advantage.
- Experience with data analytics and visualization tools, including Power BI, highly valued.
- Fluency in English and Spanish required; Portuguese is a plus.
Company Culture
adidas fosters an athlete’s mindset through courage, ownership, innovation, teamplay, integrity, and respect, with a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.