PURPOSE
- Key player in Sourcing in driving Sourcing's vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Digitalized & Cleanest Supply Base in the industry.
- Drive day-to-day together with functional counterparts on Planning, Development, Production Management, Engineering & Manufacturing Innovation, Costing, SEA, Materials (End-To-End) for specific country or assignment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Independently manage all production, quality, production availability and manufacturing efficiency and escalate critical issues and drive discussion to mitigate impact and achieve resolution.
- Manage relationship with factory management in applying the right resources, processes, tools, strategy to achieve operation excellence.
- Rollout and implement adidas best practices and directions to the responsible factories.
- Influence factory production/ quality middle management and drive change to achieve production objectives.
- Make day to day decisions within defined scope through exceptional management by balancing risks, and with support on complex issues.
- Validate and confirm T1 capacity offer and follow up on availability performance when there is a constrain.
- Support sampling process for product development as prescribed by current process (i.e., Proto Sample to Size Set Sample).
- Collaborate with Tier1s on quality of virtual & physical sample meets adidas standards and reflect design intent.
- Carry out Direct Development audits at key milestones together with Development Manager.
- Collaborate on identifying Create to Value (CTV) opportunities.
- Drive feedback loop from production to development - sharing improvement areas/best practices/risks to improve future development.
- Provide input on development to production digitalized handover package to ensure complete and smooth transition to bulk production.
- 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.
- Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity & Inclusion that strives for an inclusive workplace.
Key Relationships:
- Global Sourcing
- Headquarter (HQ) laboratory - factory laboratories.
- Product Operations
- Other Global Functions Teams: Social and Environmental Affairs / Government Affairs
- External stakeholders: Sourcing Suppliers
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Independently ability to identify issues, analyse facts and make correct decisions regarding complex production issues without undermining any required standards.
- Strong presentation, negotiation, influencing, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong leadership skills and ability to work in multidimensional teams.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
- Strong MS Office Skills
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree in product creation or related areas
- Minimum 5+ years of work experience in similar positions.