PURPOSE <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">A key player in Global Sourcing in driving Sourcing’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Digitalized & Cleanest Supply Base in the industry.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Lead the end-to-end Team Sports Sourcing Operations activities within the designated region and across relevant Operation Centers/Team Sports factories and manage the relationships between adidas and supply partners ensuring that adidas objectives are met.</li> </ul> KEY RESPONSIBILITIES <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Drive end-to-end execution of the operations (from-creation-to-shipment) across the assigned Team Sports supply base / region</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Own operational performance of assigned supply partner factories (incl. related Key Performance Indicators) and build / maintain the relationship with factory operations heads and internal functional leads to ensure quick issue resolution </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Proactively identify operations issues before they impact performance, drive mitigation efforts in close partnership with relevant stakeholders and ensure timely implementation and communication </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Supervise the direct development and commercialization process of assigned Team Sports products in collaboration with Creation Centre teams / factory personnel / technical teams to ensure effective transition of design into samples and production (incl. standards/timeline adherence, manufacturability, material selection and cost)</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensure adequate capacity / production planning (incl. seasonal/monthly capacity booking), timely planning system updates and effective implementation of all related policies and guidelines in close collaboration with LO Planning</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Drive material management activities within assigned supply base (e.g. adequate seasonal greige/material/trim booking, timely replenishment, inventory monitoring, material outage reporting and liability management)</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Implement Team Sports Sourcing strategy within assigned supply base (incl. new capability build up within existing supply base and onboarding of new supply partners/ facilities) and provide operations input to the strategy and allocation processes</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Represent Team Sports Sourcing operations both internally & externally and foster a strategical partnership and relationship with our customers </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Proactively identify operations process issues at regional/local level, drive best practice development, coordinate deployment activities to improve operations excellence and facilitate best practice exchange with teams in other regions / other relevant stakeholders</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Drive other company key initiatives within and beyond Team Sports Sourcing as assigned by Line Manager and/or Functional Leader, to ensure resources are balanced across Team Sports and Inline business so company priorities are met.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensure all sourcing operations and practices fully comply with adidas’ Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy, adidas standards and legal requirements, while managing the relevant processes internally and externally</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity & Inclusion, invest in people skills through Development / Training, provide ongoing coaching to the team members and take an active role in driving engagement</li> </ul> KEY RELATIONSHIPS <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Global Sourcing: Allocation & Planning, Sourcing Operations, Materials, Costing, Quality, Manufacturing Excellence</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Head Quarter: Global Team Services, Global Brand / Business Unit teams, Design </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Global Operations: Global Product Supply, Product Operations, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Customs</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">External: Tier 1 supplier teams (e.g. Team Sports Operations, Business Planning, General Management)</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Other Global Functional Team: Social and Environmental Affairs / Government Affairs </li> </ul> KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong understanding of sportwear industry and experience in end-to-end manufacturing processes (incl. development, materials, production, planning, quality, costing, etc.)</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong analytical skills and a passion for leveraging data to derive insights and drive impact </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong, proactive and agile problem-solving skills </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong people, influencing and communication skills</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong Microsoft office and Business Intelligence Tools skills</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Fluent in English (written and spoken)</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Project management skills an advantage </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Able to see an overview and connect the dots for end-to-end processes</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong leadership skills and ability to work with multidimensional teams</li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">University degree in production management/engineering/product creation or related areas</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Minimum 7+ years of experience of which ideally 5 years were in production creation/ manufacturing and in managerial positions</li> </ul>

Director, Sourcing Apparel Team Sports (Shanghai, SH, CN) @ adidas

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