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. Lead material strategy process & strategic allocation to balance material portfolio against multiple factors, e.g. availability, cost, quality, sustainability, innovation etc. Ensure a best-in-class supplier portfolio. Drive implementation of data-driven sourcing best-practices and advanced materials costing approaches. Develop strategic plans to ensure that Material Sourcing contributes to the overall adidas strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure a balanced supplier portfolio, considering multiple factors such as cost competitiveness, availability, sustainability, innovativeness, quality and speed.
- Define the materials sourcing strategy process and sign-off the portfolio strategy jointly with the Vice President, Materials Sourcing and materials leadership team.
- Ensure strategy alignment with stakeholders, transparency to Brand, Horizontal and Sourcing teams.
- Ensure and track the implementation of portfolio strategy in line with the overall materials sourcing strategy (e.g. onboarding or phase-out of suppliers).Steer and ensure the implementation of the defined portfolio strategy and supplier reactions with all stakeholders, e.g., no new developments with suppliers that will be phased-out.
- Collaborate within materials team on translating strategic portfolio decisions into operative actions.
- Develop business reporting capabilities & manage regular reporting process of the material strategy, supplier performance measures as well as a comprehensive analysis of adidas materials spend.
- Establish standardized, advanced and data-driven materials costing approaches and procedures.
- Ensure the accurate and continuous tracking of market data for raw materials, currencies, and other cost factors to enable the comprehensive analysis of material cost.
- Possess general price trend knowledge and cost indications for new developments.
- Define and continuously improve the seasonal material price negotiation process.
- Lead the seasonal price negotiations and align targets for different categories, including sustainable materials and materials from innovative technologies such as waterless colorization.
- Building business cases or material pricing models from a cost & supplier portfolio perspective for sustainable materials incl. new technologies.
- Guide the application of advanced procurement techniques, e.g., tendering of materials.
- Lead the seasonal FOB forecasting process for materials and collaborate with Finance and T1 Costing to provide the right guidance to BUs and Markets.
- 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.
- Develop and coach team to ensure the best standards of performance, appropriate skillsets and strong succession plans are in place.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
- Global Sourcing: Materials Operations, Materials Planning, Sourcing Operations
- Product Operations: Business Unit Costing, Planning
- External stakeholders: T2 suppliers, Strategic T3 suppliers
Knowledge Skills And Abilities
- Leadership qualities that contribute to achieving the company's strategic objectives and personal development goals.
- Excellent people and influencing communication skills.
- Strong business acumen, data-analytical and negotiation skills.
- Strong problem-solving and project management skills.
- Ability to drive initiatives and change.
- Strong knowledge of sports product and manufacturing methods.
- Possesses growth mindset and prioritize one's betterment to enhance performance.
- Strong knowledge of MS office, especially PowerPoint and Excel.
- Fluent in English communication.Ability to lead multidimensional teams.
Requisite Education And Experience
- University degree in Business Administration, Finance or Procurement is preferred.
- 10+ years professional experience in soft goods manufacturing, preferably in Costing or Materials function.
- Knowledge of sports product and/or project management preferred.
- 3+ years of people management experience
adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an equal opportunity employer.
