Purpose
As Senior Manager, Retail Talent Acquisition (North America), you will lead the strategy and execution of recruiting for the North America retail fleet and Retail back-office corporate functions. You will build and lead a regionally aligned recruiting model that expands dedicated Talent Acquisition support across store leadership roles, from Assistant Managers through store leadership, while providing strategic recruiting partnership for corporate positions that enable and support the Retail business.
You will work closely with Retail and HR leaders to anticipate workforce needs, strengthen leadership pipelines, and deliver hiring support for new store openings, expansions, remodels, relocations, peak periods, and other priority business needs. This role is accountable for translating retail growth plans into scalable talent strategies that improve hiring outcomes, reduce administrative burden on store leaders, and allow leaders to spend more time focused on customers, teams, and selling.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Retail Talent Acquisition strategy across the North America retail fleet and Retail back-office corporate function, aligning recruiting priorities with business growth, workforce plans, and performance needs.
- Build partnerships with Retail HR, Regional Directors, District Managers, and field leadership to understand regional talent needs, hiring risks, and emerging capability gaps.
- Lead, coach, and develop a regionally aligned team of recruiters responsible for full-cycle recruitment across store management and leadership roles.
- Establish recruiter scope, regional coverage, service expectations, and escalation paths to ensure consistent and sustainable support across the fleet.
- Oversee end-to-end recruitment for store supervisors, store leaders, and other priority retail roles, ensuring a high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience.
- Lead full-cycle recruiting support for Retail back-office corporate positions, partnering with functional leaders and HR to define talent needs and deliver effective hiring strategies.
- Provide direct recruiting support for select senior, complex, or business-critical retail searches as needed.
- Lead talent planning and recruitment readiness for new store openings, expansions, remodels, relocations, seasonal peaks, and market-specific hiring demands.
- Build proactive pipeline strategies through direct sourcing, internal mobility, referrals, community partnerships, hiring events, and targeted outreach.
- Use recruiting data, labor market insights, talent availability, and business demand to identify risks, shape recruiting strategies, and influence workforce decisions.
- Monitor recruiting capacity, hiring volume, pipeline health, time to hire, quality, and experience metrics.
- Strengthen selection quality through clear role profiles, structured assessments, consistent interview practices, and coaching for hiring leaders.
- Improve and standardize Retail Talent Acquisition processes, tools, communications, and ways of working while maintaining flexibility for regional and local market needs.
- Partner across Talent Acquisition and the broader Talent organization to connect retail hiring with internal mobility, early career, succession, and long-term leadership pipeline strategies.
- Champion adidas as an employer of choice and ensure the employer value proposition is consistently reflected across candidate outreach and hiring experiences.
- Ensure recruiting practices comply with company policies, labor requirements, and global and local Talent Acquisition standards.
- Lead change with clarity and accountability, translating strategy into clear priorities and measurable outcomes for the team.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Strong knowledge of scalable recruiting models, proactive sourcing, workforce planning, and high-volume or multi-location hiring.
- Ability to influence senior leaders and translate business priorities into practical talent strategies.
- Strong people leadership, coaching, and performance management capabilities.
- Ability to use recruiting metrics, labor market data, and business insights to identify trends, make decisions, and recommend action.
- Strong operational judgment and project management skills.
- Clear and confident written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfort working in a matrixed organization with evolving priorities and local and global partners.
- Strong commitment to equitable, structured, and inclusive hiring practices.
Qualifications
- University degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive recruiting experience in an agency or in-house environment.
- Significant experience supporting retail, high-volume, multi-site, or other field-based recruiting environments.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience leading and developing recruiting teams, including direct or indirect people leadership.
- Demonstrated success building and executing talent acquisition strategies across multiple locations, regions, or business units.
- Proven experience partnering with senior business and HR leaders and influencing workforce or hiring decisions.
- Experience using applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, recruiting analytics, and AI.
- Footwear, apparel, consumer, hospitality, or retail industry experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting new store openings, market expansions, or seasonal hiring is preferred.
Work Setting and Benefits
At adidas, the hybrid work policy requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. In-office attendance is required on Friday when the work requires a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation. The working location is Portland, OR.
adidas offers medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, adoption, surrogate and fertility support, disability, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) plan, Stock Purchase Plan with employer match, education assistance, paid parental leave, paid holidays, flexible time off, and an annual performance-based bonus opportunity.
adidas is an Equal Opportunity Employer that celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness, encourages individual expression, and provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.