Purpose
A key player in Product Development & Sourcing (PD&S) in driving PD&S’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Innovative & Most Sustainable PD&S in the industry. Lead the Costing Business Analytics function with a focus on developing and improving dashboards, reports and tools to provide strategic insights on cost drivers to leadership for decision making.
Key Responsibilities
- Enable PD&S management, BU Costing & Sourcing Operation teams to make informed decisions by providing structured costing analyses and deep dives.
- Strengthen and achieve optimal product cost and maximize negotiating leverage for adidas products through costing reporting and analytics.
- Collect, benchmark, and analyse regional costing data for Liaison Offices to drive cost competitiveness and policy improvement.
- Lead and manage the development and continuous improvement of product costing analytics to improve Global Costing performance.
- Identify opportunities to standardize cross-functional analytics, develop new capabilities, and customize where necessary.
- Implement and manage new costing metrics and incorporate them into the Costing KPI Dashboard.
- Ensure the reliability and accuracy of costing systems to enable operational efficiency, data reporting and analysis.
- Provide Sourcing Leadership with insights on ad-hoc analytics requests, costing driver developments, and supplier competitiveness.
- Provide ongoing coaching to direct reports.
- Ensure sourcing operations comply with adidas’ Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy, adidas standards, and legal requirements.
- Foster a culture of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Key Relationships
PD&S, Sourcing Operations, Costing, Materials, Allocation & Planning, Manufacturing Excellence, Business Unit Costing Operations, Global Strategy & Programs, TECH, Global Finance, Brand Finance, and Sourcing Finance.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong knowledge of the sourcing industry, specializing in product costing, product development, or production.
- Strong business acumen and ability to link costing analytics to business decisions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, solution-oriented, project management, change management, presentation, negotiation, influencing, people, and communication skills.
- Ability to think critically, work independently, and drive results.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills.
Minimum Qualifications
- University degree.
- Minimum 7+ years of experience in a multinational company environment, such as top-tier consulting, project management, fashion, or supply chain management.
Culture
adidas fosters an athlete’s mindset through courage, ownership, innovation, teamplay, integrity, and respect. The company emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion as part of its culture and talent processes.