Purpose
Key player in Sourcing in driving Sourcing’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Digitalized & Cleanest Supply Base in the industry. Drive day-to-day together with functional counterparts on Planning, Development, Production Management, Engineering & Manufacturing Innovation, Costing, SEA, Materials (End-to-End) for specific country or assignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Independently manage all production, quality, production availability and manufacturing efficiency and escalate critical issues and drive discussion to mitigate impact and achieve resolution.
- Manage relationship with factory management in applying the right resources, processes, tools, strategy to achieve operation excellence.
- Rollout and implement adidas best practices and directions to the responsible factories.
- Influence factory production and quality middle management and drive change to achieve production objectives.
- Make day-to-day decisions within defined scope through exceptional management by balancing risks, and with support on complex issues.
- Validate and confirm T1 capacity offer and follow up on availability performance when there is a constraint.
- Support sampling process for product development as prescribed by current process, from Proto Sample to Size Set Sample.
- Collaborate with Tier 1 suppliers on quality of virtual and physical samples to meet adidas standards and reflect design intent.
- Carry out Direct Development audits at key milestones together with the Development Manager.
- Collaborate on identifying Create to Value opportunities.
- Drive feedback loops from production to development, sharing improvement areas, best practices and risks to improve future development.
- Provide input on the development-to-production digitalized handover package to ensure complete and smooth transition to bulk production.
- Ensure all sourcing operations and practices comply with adidas’ Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy, adidas standards and legal requirements.
- Role-model leadership to foster a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Key Relationships
- Global Sourcing Headquarters
- Laboratory and factory laboratories
- Product Operations
- Social and Environmental Affairs and Government Affairs teams
- External sourcing suppliers
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to identify issues, analyse facts and make correct decisions regarding complex production issues without undermining required standards.
- Strong presentation, negotiation, influencing, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong leadership skills and ability to work in multidimensional teams.
- Fluent in English, written and spoken.
- Strong MS Office skills.
Required Education and Experience
- University degree in product creation or related areas.
- Minimum 5+ years of work experience in similar positions.
Company 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.