About this role
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><a name="_Hlk117682657"></a><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">PURPOSE </span></strong></p> <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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Key player in Sourcing in driving Sourcing’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Digitalized & Cleanest Supply Base in the industry. </span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Lead the overall business of the Operation Centers/designated factories or factory groups and manage the relationships between adidas Group and T1s ensuring that adidas objectives are met.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</span></strong></p> <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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Lead the overall sourcing business, operations, and functions in designated groups of factories/operations centers, to execute the global sourcing strategies. </span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Lead the Development & Commercialization and Production teams 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 development, material, costing, quality, SEA & ME&I)</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Own all KPI performance and utilize SPIKE framework to drive KPI performance of the managed partners</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Build and maintain close working relationships with the partner senior leadership and functional leads to ensure quick resolution of issues as well as engage them in the overall company strategies.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Represent operations both internally & externally and foster a strategic partnership and relationship with our customers. </span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Contribute to the allocation process through regular collaboration with stakeholders.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Ensure all operations comply with relevant local laws and adidas workplace standards and freedom of associations.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Develop and coach team members and take an active role in driving engagement.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Streamline processes through continuous improvement techniques and tools and challenge existing standards and procedures.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Maintains a flexible organizational structure capable of adapting to changing business needs.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Develop and coach team to ensure the best standards of performance, appropriate skillsets and strong succession plans are in place.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity & Inclusion that strives for an inclusive workplace.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus"> </span></strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">KEY RELATIONSHIPS </span></strong></p> <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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Global Sourcing </span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Headquarter (HQ) </span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Product Operations </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus"> </span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Other Global Function Team</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">External stakeholders: Sourcing Suppliers</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Knowledge, Skills and Abilities</span></strong></p> <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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Have a wide experience of quality management concepts in manufacturing of consumer goods.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Strong conceptual thinking </span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Strong presentation, negotiation, influencing, interpersonal and communication skills.</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Fluent in English (written and spoken) </span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Strong MS Office Skills </span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Strong leadership skills and ability to lead multidimensional teams.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Requisite Education and Experience</span></strong></p> <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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">University degree in engineering/materials or related areas or relevant ‘expert’ work experience</span></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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">Minimum 10+ years of relevant business experience and </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus">3+ years of people management experience</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:AdiHaus"> </span></strong></p>