Senior Specialist Hr jobs at Adidas in Germany

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As a Senior Manager in Product Marketing, you lead the development of product marketing strategies that align with brand and business objectives while driving local market acceleration. You combine a global strategy with a strong local mindset, ensuring consumer-centric decision-making and the creation of compelling product assortments tailored to local needs. Through agility and entrepreneurial leadership, you guide cross-functional teams, manage complex timelines, and deliver insight-driven execution that influences category growth and elevates brand presence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain a strong understanding ofBrand vision, strategic roadmap, and financial objectives to ensure product direction and goals remain aligned with brand positioning and evolving market demands.
• Align seasonal product portfolio plans and tactics with strategic direction and category priorities to achieve business goals and maximize consumer impact.
• Translate market and consumer insights into actionable growth opportunities within the business unit, with a focus on local market acceleration.
• Drive the execution of the product creation process and key milestones, coordinating cross-functional teams to meet timelines, quality standards, and strategic targets.
• Deliver against product creation milestones, ensure teams follow the agreed development calendar, and influence efficient range development.
• Manage accurate and complete product master data to enable downstream systems and processes.
• Own the creation and maintenance of product master data and ensure all relevant attributes are accurately managed to meet go-to-market and sales readiness milestones for assigned product ranges.
• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration and ensure Design, Development, and Marketing teams are aligned on product creation goals and timelines.
• Cultivate and strengthen collaboration across aJ BU and Global BU to identify opportunities and ensure strategic consistency.
• Lead the analysis of market trends, consumer behavior, and product performance to optimize product offerings and future range planning.
• Drive KPI performance (Financial KPIs) and provide actionable insights to optimize planning and product performance reviews.
• With entrepreneurship mindset, proactively identify growth opportunities and lead initiatives that deliver measurable business impact.

Key Relationships:

• Partnerships across global functions, markets, and creation centers.
• aJ/global Business Unit
• aJ Business Unit
• Cross-functional teams, Designer, Operation (Developer).
• External partners, key accounts, and market stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• In-depth knowledge of sport/style industry dynamics and product category expertise
• Strong familiarity with cross-functional marketing and go-to-market planning
• Advanced analytical, strategic, and tactical planning proficiency
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Clear and engaging presentation capabilities for internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to resolve conflicts and align cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience executing change management in fast-paced environments
• Strong consumer-centric mindset in product decisions
• Creative and lateral thinking to challenge the status quo and drive innovation
• Ability to travel and represent brand passion for sports

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree (BA/MA) in Marketing, Business Administration, Product Management, or related field.
• 6–8 years of experience in Product Marketing or Category Management, specifically in Footwear.
• Deep understanding of consumer behavior and segmentation across markets.
• Familiarity with global retail environments, e-commerce, and omnichannel strategies.
• Proven track record in leading product creation processes from concept to launch.
• Fluent in English and Japanese (native level).
• Digital fluency in Office 365 applications and product and marketing tools.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As HR Manager within our HR Team at Rieste, you will act as a trusted advisor to the Disctribution Center Leadership Team, driving business performance through people. In this role you will also manage employee relations with a proximity approach, keep HR systems and employee documentation up to date and challenge the status quo by seeking innovative solutions in alignment with HR teams across Europe. By combining strategic partnership, operational excellence, and innovative thinking, the HRBP enables a high-performance culture and sustainable results.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor and primary contact for managers and employees, providing guidance on policies, procedures and best practices.
• Support employees with all people-related matters and team-up with leaders in employee engagement, performance management, and decision-making.
• Support leaders in all people-related areas including recognition & rewards, performance reviews, grievance handling, absence management, health & safety, workforce planning, talent acquisition, briefings, employee development, and training.
• Implement and drive the People Strategy within the assigned business area, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Contribute to change management initiatives and the implementation of new organizational structures.
• Partner with Centers of Expertise to develop solutions that build workforce capabilities and competencies; support the operationalization of workforce planning processes.
• Provide input for and monitor HR dashboards, reports, and analytical trends to identify key insights.
• Contribute to talent pipeline development within the area of responsibility.
• Ensure HR processes and employee programs are effectively executed, with communications tailored to the specific client group.

Key Stakeholders

• Employees and managers within the assigned business area
• HR colleagues (local, regional, and global)
• Works Council
• Talent and Rewards Partners and subject matter experts
• Talents within the responsibility area

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• HR Expertise:Solid understanding of individual and collective labor law; proficient in using HR metrics; maintaining an external market perspective; anticipating workforce trends; foundational employee relations knowledge.
• Business Acumen:Strong commercial awareness and customer focus; understanding of business operations, value chains, and key processes.
• Consulting Skills:Strong coaching and advisory abilities; capable of designing and implementing HR solutions and gaining buy-in from the business.
• Collaborative team player with a highly proactive and solution-oriented mindset, finding and implementing pragmatic solutions while striving for future optimisation.
• Committed to delivering high-quality HR support; skilled in listening, identifying needs, and providing tailored solutions.
• Approachable, empathetic, and equipped with strong interpersonal skills.
• Highly organized, self-motivated, and enthusiastic with a hands-on attitude; confident, creative, and cooperative.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Open-minded and adaptable, willing to explore new ideas and support organizational change.
• Strategic thinker with an understanding of how tasks align with overall business objectives.
• Able to present logical, persuasive arguments to support ideas and recommendations.
• Fluent in German and English, both spoken and written.

Education and Experience

• University degree or equivalent qualification, preferably in Human Resources Management or a related field.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of progressive HR experience in logisitics or manufacturing industries, ideally within an international organization.
• International exposure through studies or internships abroad is an advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform general administration within the HR Services team for all defined processes, tools and programmes and processes on a European and partially on a European and global level
• Be a contact person for the HR community and relevant stakeholders regarding the respective HR Services issues
• Handle standard inquiries & support through ticket service or via phone (if required)
• Timely execute assigned tasks and issues according to defined processes, timetables and service levels in compliance with tariff and works agreements
• Support and administer the digitalisation within HR Services
• Administrating procurement, invoicing and financial processes and reporting incl. recharging if required
• Support in the preparation of data and system audits and execute accordingly
• Provide consistent information to employees on HR Services topics according to the process and knowledge data base
• Contribute to continuous improvement of HR Services procedures, processes and systems and respective documentation
• Ensure correct execution of laws and regulations with regards to specific employee master data and organizational data according to defined procedures
• Suggest modification of systems and processes in order to ensure correct execution of laws and compliance to company policies
• Providing input for creation of user manuals and process mappings
• Providing input for communication of standards, procedures and processes to employees, internal customers and Works Council
• Participate regularly in workshops and meetings held by subject matter experts within HR Services

Key Relationships:

• HR Services teams
• HR Experts
• HR Partners
• Employees
• External authorities, consultants and suppliers
• Works council

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good level of affinity to and experience with Business computing solutions, ideally with SAP HR
• Very good analytical skills and detail oriented work style
• Team player mentality
• Strong customer focus and service minded
• International mind-set; first experience as part of a geographically & culturally diverse team
• Ability to work under pressure as well as prioritizes and completes tasks in order of importance
• Good understanding of legal and tariff regulations

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or Commercial education
• 1-3 years relevant working experience in a multi-national environment, preferably within HR
• Very good command of English and German
• Experience with Business computing solutions, ideally with SAP HR
• Good knowledge of MS-Office applications

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is responsible for maximizing the profitability of the Adidas Own Retail & Franchise by securing real estate in alignment with the India store growth targets. This function will be accountable for providing guidance and strategic insight on potential site identification, assessing viability, lease negotiations as well as ensuring that financial hurdles are met in the overall development of adidas retail locations.

Key Responsibilities:

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• Elevate the brand awareness by ensuring key markets and locations have brand presence
• Drive performance management of the portfolio by reviewing and recommending performance enhancing opportunities with DTC counterparts
• Actively develop and execute the expansion strategy at a regional level
• Execute within Group guidelines and criteria for site selection, deal-making and the management of landlord relations.
• Manage external real estate resources in locating and evaluating potential sites.
• Evaluate existing store portfolio to actively drive rent reductions, recommend lease renewals and terminations and negotiate renewals and extensions where appropriate, also linked to store lifecycle
• Make Market-level commercial decisions by analyzing the retail KPI’s and local retail trends and needs.
• Maintain key relationships with Mall owners/Landlords at a portfolio level

Key Relationships:

• Internal -India Real Estate, Store Development, Store Operations, Legal, Finance, Marketing, HR, Global Teams.
• External - Landlords, brokers, industry developers and operators, architects, legal partners.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Ability to think strategically, define business opportunities and problems, collect, interpret and analyze abstract and concrete information, and create strategic, value-add solutions.
• Good IT skills (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Good numeracy in real estate, verbal and written communication skills
• Strong Presentation and Communication Skills
• Geographical mobility

• Proven ability to work cross functionally to achieve goals and objectives
• Ability to work independently on multiple projects
• Strong knowledge in Real Estate regulatory controls and policies

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree with an emphasis in real estate or finance preferred, or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience with global consultancy/ Retail developer/ Retail Brand

Responsibilities:

• Assist in collaboration efforts with Account and Sales Operations, Customer Fulfillment and other SCM functions to understand priorities and addressing issues, risks & opportunities
• Support process standardization solutions across teams
• Assist in enabling customer deliveries against commercial requirements according to business principles and priorities
• Explore innovations, new practices, and process improvements within the functional area under the guidance of senior team members, seeking to enhance process effectiveness and efficiency
• Identify opportunities across teams to streamline processes and efficiently work towards delivering shared goals through centralized process governance and standardization
• Execute allocation, delivery note creation and backorder/season cleanse jobs against defined rules, schedule and monitor results
• Assist in developing appropriate reporting to provide insight and support effective decisions, as well as measure KPIs and drivers, taking corrective action where necessary to improve process effectiveness
• Monitor and maintain excellent process execution to secure integrity of input to key SCM processes, ensuring adherence to centralized process standards
• Validate key system/network run as scheduled
• Responsible for creation and distribution of operational reports
• Execute mass sales order updates such as rejections for dropped articles or plant changes for migrations
• Provide reporting transparency and analytics regarding orderbook performance, both actual/historical as well as projected performance to support decision making
• Review orderbook correctness ensuring data integrity for SCM systems/processes through sales order maintenance
• Support alignment and harmonization of Order Fulfillment processes across countries, clusters, and Distribution Centers
• Proactively participate in order book management solutions, evaluating existing operational processes to adapt to changes or support the development of new processes
• Scrutinize SOPs and system infrastructure with the goal of making continuous business improvements in line with company strategy, focusing on centralizing and standardizing process
• Support projects aimed at turning ideas into actions, with a focus on improving process effectiveness and efficiency
• Act as key tester for system upgrades and regression testing, including key user responsibilities for SAP/ Power BI testing and system functionalities
• Supporting the Manager Order Fulfillment in coordinating special handling for new requests
• Day to day interaction with stakeholder base
• Service delivery by agreed SLA

Key Relationships:

• Account & Sales Operations, Sales and Finance
• Other Supply Chain Management functions (Product Supply, Inbound Planning, Customer Fulfillment, Local Customer Fulfillment, DC Ops etc.)
• IT
• Distribution Centers
• Demand Planning

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong service-oriented mindset and a focus on meeting consumer/customer needs in the supply chain context
• Team player
• Proficiency in analytical thinking and problem-solving to address complex challenges in supply chain operations
• Understanding of cost considerations and their impact on sales generation within the supply chain process
• Autonomous and independent working style
• Comfort with learning and utilizing internal systems and software applications specific to supply chain management
• Intermediate knowledge of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Basic level of familiarity with SAP-AFS (SD module)
• Fluency in English; proficiency in an additional language is advantageous in a global supply chain environment

Requisite Education and Experience/Minimum Qualifications:

• Successful completion of mandatory education level or vocational studies. Bachelor's degree is a plus.
• 1-3 years of experience in providing supply chain management support in the field of operations, fulfillment or logistics, preferably in the Accessories, Apparel or Footwear industries

Start of the internhsip: In Jan 2026

• • Assist in HR sctivities
  • Support Administrative Tasks : Help with clerical duties, such as managing databases, preparing reports, and organizing HR materials.
  • Educational Background : Currently pursuing a degree in HR or related field.