<h3 style="margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:</h3> This role plays a key part in enabling the SEA Head Office to operate effectively, supporting the Director, Business Development and the senior leadership team in driving strategic priorities, governance, and execution excellence. The position also helps shape and strengthen the SEA Head Office operating model, ensuring alignment, effective leadership cadence, and strong follow-through on key business priorities. <h3 style="margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Key Responsibilities:</h3> Head Office Operating Model & Business Governance <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">Lead the implementation of the SEA Head Office operating model, establishing clear governance, accountability, and decision-making frameworks.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Support the development of strategic and business priorities, ensuring clear ownership, structured follow-up, and delivery tracking.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Serve as a central coordination point to align priorities, actions, and stakeholders across the SEA leadership team.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Act as a trusted partner to the SEA GM and leadership team in preparing for and executing key business priorities.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Support the preparation of leadership meetings, business reviews, and other key executive engagements.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Proactively identify risks, gaps, and dependencies, and drive alignment across stakeholders to keep priorities on track.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Establish structured processes for agenda planning, documentation, and follow-up to support effective decision-making.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Drive calendar and meeting planning solutions that improve prioritization, focus, and time management for the leadership team.</li> </ul> <h3 style="margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strategic Execution & Organisational Effectiveness</h3> <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">Support cross-functional strategic initiatives aligned with SEA leadership priorities.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Partner with key stakeholders across Finance, HR, Brand, Commercial, and Operations to drive alignment and execution.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Identify opportunities to simplify processes and enhance organisational effectiveness across SEA.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Use internal data, analytics, and market intelligence to generate strategic insights, identify trends and opportunities, and support profitable growth for the adidas brand across SEA.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Support the development and evolution of SEA growth opportunities across countries, channels, brands, and support functions in line with Global and Emerging Markets strategy.</li> </ul> Key Relationships: <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">SEA Senior Leadership team</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">SEA Retail, eCommerce and Wholesale/Franchise, Brand teams</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Country Channel and Brand leads</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">EM Business Development</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">SEA and EM Support Functions including IT, Finance, Operations, HR </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 strategic thinking with the ability to combine big-picture perspective and hands-on execution.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong commercial mindset and sound business acumen.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions and seniority levels.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Proven project management skills</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Open-minded, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-changing environment.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">High attention to detail and ability to bring structure to ambiguous environments.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.</li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: <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">8–10 years of experience in business development, strategy, consulting, or project/program management.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience working with or supporting senior leadership teams is a strong advantage.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">University degree in Business or a related field, preferably with a focus on finance, marketing, or sales.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience in apparel, footwear, fashion, FMCG, or consulting is preferred.</li> </ul>

Manager, Business Development SEA (Singapore, Singapore, SG) @ adidas

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