<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 0.0in 1.0pt 0.0in"> Director, Planning Processes & Business Development </div> Department: Sourcing Operations Direct Reporting Line: Senior Director, Sourcing Operations Subsidiary: adidas Sourcing Limited Location: El Salvador GSMS Grade: M2 Personnel Managed: Yes Job Code: Sourcing- Sourcing Operations-M2 Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: N/A <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 0.0in 1.0pt 0.0in"> </div> <a name="_Hlk117682657"></a>PURPOSE <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Key player in Sourcing in driving Sourcing’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Digitalized & Cleanest Supply Base in the industry. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">The Director of Planning and Business Development serves as the strategic architect connecting Sourcing Operations with the commercial growth engines of North America and Latin America. transforming operational capacity into a competitive advantage, ensuring that the sourcing footprint is agile, scalable, and perfectly synchronized with our goals across NCAM countries.</li> </ul> KEY RESPONSIBILITIES <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Represent Sourcing Allocation & Planning in all key processes & systems related strategic initiatives (i.e. FPS, TRANSFORM); actively participate and collaborate with key business partners (GPS, PD, BU Planning, Sourcing Ops, S&P) to ensure a cohesive process architecture.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Lead the planning team in the<s> </s>partner groups/OCs ensuring that they fully carry out their expected JD/R&R and that all company standards are met with support from relevant functional heads when needed (including operations/development, material, costing, quality, SEA & ME&I)</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Own availability KPI performance and utilize SPIKE framework to drive KPI performance of the managed partners</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Act as the lead orchestrator between Sales/Business Development and Sourcing Operations to ensure that new market demands are feasible within our current or planned supply infrastructure.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Identify and evaluate emerging business opportunities in North America and Latin America by analyzing market trends, trade shifts (such as nearshoring), and competitive landscapes.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop business cases for new product categories or regional expansion, ensuring they align with the organization’s financial and operational goals. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Assess the scalability of existing suppliers to determine if they can support new business ventures without compromising quality or delivery lead times.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Maintain a comprehensive "Heat Map" of the current supplier base capabilities across NCAM, identifying strengths, technical limitations, and untapped production capacities.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Design and oversee the regional "Supply-Demand" synchronization plan, ensuring the supplier base is prepared for seasonal peaks and long-term growth.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Promote the regionalization for the markets of the supply chain to reduce landed costs and lead times, specifically leveraging trade agreements (like USMCA, CAFTA) and local incentives in LAM.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Maintains a flexible organizational structure capable of adapting to changing business needs.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Present quarterly strategic reviews to executive leadership regarding the "Health of the Region," balancing business growth metrics with supplier performance data.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Evaluate geopolitical and economic risks in the Americas (e.g., currency fluctuations, labor strikes, or regulatory changes) and develop contingency sourcing plans to protect business continuity.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop and coach team to ensure the best standards of performance, appropriate skillsets and strong succession plans are in place.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop and coach team members and take an active role in driving engagement.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 3.0pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity & Inclusion that strives for an inclusive workplace.</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">NAM and LAM Markets</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 Sourcing</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">Sourcing Operations </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">Headquarter (HQ) </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">Product Development </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">BU 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">Other Global Function Team</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 stakeholders: Sourcing Suppliers</li> </ul> Knowledge, Skills and Abilities <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">Have a wide experience of project management concepts in manufacturing of consumer goods, planning processes, supply chain, demand 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">Strategic Planning Frameworks: Familiarity with S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) 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">Data Analytics & Forecasting</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">Business Development</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">Holistic & Systems Thinking</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">Strong presentation, negotiation, influencing, interpersonal and communication skills.</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">Fluent in English (written and spoken) </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">Strong MS Office Skills </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">Strong leadership skills and ability to lead multidimensional teams.</li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience <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 or equivalent in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Economics, or Engineering or related areas or relevant ‘expert’ work experience.</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">Preferred Qualification: a Master’s in a related field is highly preferred</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 10+ years of relevant business experience and 3+ years of people management experience</li> </ul>

Director, Sourcing Planning - NCAM (OA1) (San Salvador, SS, SV) @ adidas

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