Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Manage the respective Footwear Creation Hub responsibilities, ensuring successful product development, owning calendar and project planning to deliver against the stated seasonal objectives and longer term aspirations for the SPEED team, focused mainly on key-accounts SMU requests, as well as off-calendar Late-Add Projects for the Lifestyle Footwear BU. Key Responsibilities: <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Work closely with the Product Creation and Sourcing Partners to build strategies to achieve development excellence, and industry leading processes that guarantee great product delivered on time.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop new products & concepts that exceed consumer expectations, while hitting target costing.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Help create industry leading speed & service model to enable the adidas brand to get closer to market needs. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Identify business opportunities and risks, initiating key action steps with relevant BU functions and cross-functional partners.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Take decisions that enable progress, challenge the status-quo to deliver results.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Create a powerful team spirit with a passion towards exceeding short, mid and long term goals and objectives.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Present Range both internally & externally (HQ, Ops / Sourcing / T1)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensure maintenance and enhancement of product information systems.</li> </ul> Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Proven management skills, including ability to bring together cross-functional partners and resources, both internal and external</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience in interpreting design intent, offering alternative solutions, and guiding decisions by providing technical resources.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Proficient working with factory vendors to ensure and improve manufacturability.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Highly organized and resilient, with a high tolerance for ambiguity, and outstanding ability to seamlessly balance constantly evolving priorities.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to participate in overlapping seasonal projects with competing resources and deadlines </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a keen awareness of the audience. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Understanding of when to dive deep into the technical details and when to simplify the complexity.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Unique blend of marketing, development and sourcing experience to suit the Sportswear FTW business model, with ideally some clear exposure and understanding of the Design functions. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to work with all levels of the organization</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Comprehensive understanding of consumer markets, specifically in the sporting goods industry</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Understanding of various channel distributions, net sales, margins, profit and inventory</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Prior knowledge of taking product from conception through implementation preferred</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge of footwear in construction/development strongly preferred</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Exposure to Special Make-Ups process preferred</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Good numerical skills with the ability to negotiate</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Skill in MS Office applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Smartsheet)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to travel, domestic and international. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to be agile and adaptive to new ways of working, overlapping calendars, and changing of goal posts</li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Four year college or university degree, preferably in Marketing/Business</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Minimum five (5) years related experience</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Equivalent education and/or experience may be substituted for degree</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 11.7333px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience in Footwear Marketing and or development</li> </ul>

Manager, Product Creation Footwear (Creation Center) (Ho Chi Minh City, 65, VN) @ adidas

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