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adidas

Director, Sourcing Product Concept & Innovation

Guangzhou

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Guangzhou, CN
Description
PURPOSE • A key player in Global Sourcing in driving Sourcing’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Digitalized & Cleanest Supply Base in the industry. • Manage relations and drive innovation centers effectiveness on projects & resources allocation. • Research & develop sourcing solutions for new product concepts and commerical competitiveness. • Drive definition, readiness & validation of innovation & commercial ready projects. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Drive innovative product concept development & validation towards specifications, compliance & integrity. • Provide commercial tangible guidance throughout the readiness levels, ROI, timelines, and scalability. • Work closely with supplier innovation centers to ensure performance, competitiveness & advantage for adidas. • Encourage suppliers to continuously upgrade their expertise, technical applications, new materials innovation, and manufacturing technologies. • Research sporting goods and other industries to benchmark and identify potential opportunities for application of innovative technology, processes, and materials. • Provide regular update and valuable input to project teams, key stakeholders & escalation to leadership team when needed. • Challenge team, stakeholder, suppliers to ensure feasibility, commerciality, impact & progress of projects. • Project base allocation of resources • Ensure project deliverables on time, in full & within budget. • Lead & staff a cross divisional team • 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. • Develop and coach team to ensure the best standards of performance, appropriate skill set, and strong succession plans are in place. • Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity & Inclusion that strives for an inclusive workplace. KEY RELATIONSHIPS • Global Sourcing • HQ Innovation Teams, adiLab, Innovation Management • HQ Sustainability Materials • Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 Supply Partners Innovation departments • Global Functions Teams KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES • Innovative & Visionary • Strong people management skills and proven ability in leading multidimensional teams • Have depth and breadth of experience in Materials and Methods of Make, but also sports product creation and engineering. • Strong influencing, people, presentation, communication, and articulation skills • Fluent in English (written and spoken) • Strong Microsoft Office skills REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE • University Degree, in Materials/Process/Textile/Chemical/ Mechanical Engineering or related areas • Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience and 3 years of people management experience • Specific product, material & technology expertise is an advantage.