Senior Design Director jobs at Adidas in United Arab Emirates, Dubai

Role of TECH Site Lead

• Full ownership of all the Tech activities in Hong Kong, including project delivery and day-to-day opertaions
• End-to-end delivery from demand to execution
• Partnerhip with local business stakeholders
• Partnership with Greater China Area (GCA) TECH and Global TECH teams

Specialist advice

• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organization’s planning and operations.
• Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
• Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization.

Business analysis

• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
• Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
• Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

Requirements definition and management

• Contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritization of requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
• Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

Porting/software configuration

• Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platform-specific versions of one or more software products.
• Documents faults, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.

Application support

• Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures.
• Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
• Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.

People Management / Resource Management:

• Is involved in recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decision and pre-selection of candidates
• Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload, and organizational efficiency
• Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs.

• Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives

Key Relationships:

• Global IT
• Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
• HR Management

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Proficient spoken and written command of English
• At least 7-year experience in IT
• 5 years of experience in relevant area
• 2 years of experience in team management
• Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer
• Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects

Team Leader 30%

• Partner with Marketing and Design to achieve the goals and objectives set by the business unit
• Proactively communicate on an on-going basis with the development team and cross functional teams to ensure a smooth product development process
• Research new technologies and materials and communicates to Design and Marketing on new potential development options
• Supervise the costing process to achieve the best possible cost throughout the creation process
• Communicate to internal and external teams seasonal product initiatives, process changes and longer-term category vision
• Take responsibility for Buy Ready performance through strong interfaces with Marketing, Design, Materials Development, Pattern, Logistics and Sourcing (Technical Services, Materials, Merchandising and Production)
• Manage team to achieve high performance by fostering a positive team environment, through effective delegation, objective setting, performance assessments, motivation, and training and development

Product Developer 70%

• Communicate all necessary information to Marketing, Design, Suppliers and LO/OC to ensure the effective and efficient creation of outstanding product
• Ensure target price and product designs are aligned through predictive costing. Review, validate and approve T1 costing information throughout the entire creation process. Ensure compliance to agreed standards. Negotiate with T1 as needed

• Manage handover from design to T1 to ensure that all information provided to T1 is complete. Manage T1 feedback to design and marketing and incorporate where quality or cost can be improved without sacrificing product aesthetics
• Ensures timely and accurate data entry by T1 regarding AD/BOM, costing or other data as required at calendar milestones
• Evaluate all prototypes for compliance with AD, manages fit approval/size specification, approval of color, accessories and materials. Manage comments to T1
• Ensure that all materials and accessories as well as prototypes are tested and adhere to adidas quality, safety and A01 standards. Manage quality exceptions with senior management as needed
• If required, review size sets for accuracy of measurements and merchantability of complete size range including logo placement and fit. (LO/OC to approve size sets not requested by CC and to review size sets approved by CC after buy ready release)
• Review and sign off sealing sample with complete AD including all related documents prior to buy ready dates. Ensure full conformity to published policies to ensure a final legal AD for final product
• Researches innovation from market or supply chain as far as garment construction, pattern/fit, embellishment, trims. Work cross functionally with BOPS teams, aIT, Sourcing and T1/T2 to implement into product creation

Key Relationships:

• Marketing
• Design
• Sourcing (Brand Strategy, Merchandising, Costing, Materials, tech Services)
• BOPS (Materials, Costing, Pattern)
• GSP, SCI,

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong communication (both written and verbal) and facilitation (small and large groups) skills
• Ability to create, plan and effectively deliver presentations in formal and informal settings
• Ability to manage and motivate a team
• Ability to anticipate problems and develop solutions through to resolution
• Ability to cope with change, make decisions and act comfortably with risk and uncertainty
• In-depth Knowledge of production garment construction and manufacturing
• Advanced Knowledge of material construction and related testing

• Advanced Knowledge of wear and physical product testing
• Advanced knowledge of costing and ability to negotiate as required
• Ability to fit a garment and comment to T1 on changes required
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Strong IT skills ( MS office, PDM, CAD ) and ability to work with Product Data Management Systems
• Travel, domestic and international as required by business needs

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Four-year college or university degree with emphasis on clothing technology and/or manufacturing
• Minimum 3-5 years of progressive work experience in the garment/textile industry
• First experience in managing a team

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 the overall business of the Operation Centers/designated factories or factory groups and manage the relationships between adidas Group and Tier1 ensuring that adidas Sourcing objectives are met.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the overall sourcing business, operations, and functions in designated groups of factories/operations centers, to execute the global sourcing strategies.
• Accountable for leadership of the Development & Commercialization and Production teams in the supplier groups/OCs ensuring that they fully carry out their expected JD/R&R and that all company standards are met with support from relevant functional heads when needed (including development, material, costing, quality, SEA & ME)
• Own all KPI performance of the managed vendors within assigned “Country of Origin (“CoO”) and own the relationship at Supplier Group level where relevant.
• Drive company key initiatives, such as Quality, ME/CI, SPIKE, and Tier1/Tier2 alignment programs and projects to ensure overall and supplier capabilities are industry leading / world class.
• Build and maintain close working relationships with the factory senior management and internal functional leads to ensure quick resolution of issues as well as engage them in the overall company strategies.
• Represent operations both internally & externally and foster a strategical partnership and relationship with our customers.
• Provide input and regular update of information necessary to support the allocation process.
• Ensure all operations comply with relevant local laws respecting human rights, health and safety of all employees and environment.
• Invest in people skills through Development and Training, provide ongoing coaching to the team members and take an active role in driving engagement.
• Enhance work environment considering infrastructure, SEA & labor and security.Streamline processes through continuous improvement techniques and tools and challenge existing standards and procedures.Own Direct Development (“DD”) audits to ensure Virtual & Physical sample meet adidas standards and reflect design intent.
• 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 Function Team: Social and Environmental Affairs / Government Affairs
• External stakeholders: Sourcing Suppliers, Transport, Logistics and Customs

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Have wide experience of sourcing management concepts of consumer goods.
• Strong presentation, negotiation, influencing, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Strong MS Office SkillsStrong leadership skills and ability to work with multidimensional teams.

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree in engineering or related areas.
• Minimum 7+ years of work experience of which ideally 5 years were in production creation/ manufacturing and in managerial positions.

• 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.
• Drive development, commercialization, product integrity, manufacturability, Create to Value
(CTV), performance to target FOB for all products in the designated representative of the
categories.• Lead a development/commercialization for one or more categories being assigned ensuringintegrity, performance, perceived value, manufacturability and quality.
• Oversee the direct development process between Headquarter/Creation Center and Tier 1
and focus.
• Manage relationship with the factory development team leaders to continually upgrade sports
category competence, development innovation capability, and technical expertise.
• Exhibits “product eyes” and sports competence to influence and drive the overall product
direction of the specific category(s) he/she manages.
• Make decisions within the defined development and commercialization scope for the
categor(ies) being assigned.
• Give input to issuing directives in development, commercialization and related area.
• Influence HQ (Design, Marketing, Brand Ops, Quality) and external parties and drive changemanaging/solving conflicts.
• 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 Diversity Equity & Inclusion culture that strives for an
inclusive workplace.

• Global Sourcing: Manufacturing, Costing, Material, Planning, Product Quality, Product Testing
& Compliance, E&MI
• Global Brands: HQ Product Teams (Design, Marketing, Brand Operations)
• Global Operations
• Other Global Functions Team: Social and Environmental Affairs/Government Affairs ect
• External stakeholders: Sourcing Suppliers (Factory head of development / commercialization,
factory development / commercialization team, factory sample room heads, T2 / T3 suppliers)

• Have relevant knowledge and expertise and able to drive LO/regional based projects within
defined scope of development & commercialization.
• Strong Project Management skill
• Strong influencing people, presentation and communication skills
• Proven ability in leading multidimensional teams
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Strong Microsoft office skills

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
• University degree in engineering or related areas.
• Minimum 7+ years of relevant experience in the industry with technical capability and
managerial experience.
• Experience in pattern engineering, product creation, mold making, grading, materials
processing etc.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage timely the preparation of complex / high volume Tax declarations from beginning to end, including data extraction, controls, input, review, submission, payment and documentation.
• Ensure that Tax accounts are correct and reconciled with declarations and P&L
• Fiscal Books preparation and analysis
• Support month and closing procedures
• Act as point of contact for tax matters and foster knowledge within GBS
• Clarify major compliance exceptions and keep up to date documentation of issues and resolutions
• Knowledge and monitoring of tax and legal changes
• Execution of tax controls and advanced analytics
• Follow up on findings and prevent recurrences
• Preparation of requested electronic data files for audits
• Keep filing system up to date according to business requirement needs and in line with the

registrations in the respective jurisdictions

• Clarify major compliance exceptions and keep up to date documentation of issues and resolutions

Key Relationships:

• Local Finance Team
• GBS center teams
• Process Owners
• Global Tax team

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, finance, fiscal, legal, or comparable professional education.
• At least 3 years of experience in similar functions.
• Experience in Taxes.
• Experience in SAP is an advantage.
• Experience in Shared Service environment is an advantage.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Self-motivated and self-directed individual.
• Practical experience with Tax (Direct and Indirect Taxes)
• Critical thinking mindset
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the implementation of key strategic priorities in line with the business expectation & merchandising framework
• Plan & Manage the creation of the seasonal GFO/Planned production to be offered to EM countries reflecting the commercial needs of the channel in coordination with the product strategy team
• Implement and drive the value store segmentation as foundational to plan accurate OTB & seasonal buys to achieve net sales, margins and inventory goals
• Build and maintain an inventory model with monthly views of stock and sales intake providing insights to countries on potential stock and product gaps
• Monitor financial targets for the channel including Net sales, Sell-through, Std. margin, Inventory, IDL & drive required actions to achieve the KPI’s.
• Ensure implementation of standard markdown / promotion processes across EM to support topline, bottom-line & inventory ageing targets.
• Drive merchandising excellence in all aspects of in-season trading (Replen – Stock Consolidation – store transfers – layouts – capacity maximization etc.)
• Be the SPOC for any subject Values stores related facing the Global FO team, HUB and cluster teams to deploy key strategies EM clusters to drive efficiency & profitability.
• Setup FO merchandising framework & lead its implementation across EM.
• Develop and evolve key merchandising analytics and be responsible for its implementation in markets.
• Review weekly sales and stock and define gap plans in collaboration with markets to maximize sales and achieve business goals.
• Monitor and drive the execution of effective flow of stock from regular DTC channels to Value channels (including FTS) to assure product relevance in regular stores, adequate stock clearance and margin optimization.
• Sharing of best practice from retail Value into franchise and within franchise across the markets.
• Action & lead relevant projects based on the business needs to achieve business goals.
• Role model the leadership framework and ONE EM mindset.

Key Relationships:

• Global Merchandising Value team
• EM countries merchandising and operation teams
• EM Omni channel teams
• EM & cluster SCM
• EM & cluster Finance
• EM Demand planning
• EM Hub BU, CTC & DTC merchandising team.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong financial acumen and familiarity with retail math and KPIs
• Excellent direct & indirect influencing skills
• Strong communication skills and ability to present complex topics in a simplified and clear way to any audience
• Previous proven experience of managing Off price business is favorable
• Strong trading mindset, with an entrepreneurial flair to maximize business opportunities.
• Fluent in English.
• Excellent attention to detail and analysis skills.
• Advanced MS office skills (Advanced Excel skills is a must)
• Understanding of retail management system and back office system
• Structured, process oriented at the same time approachable and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work within a diverse team, fast-paced environment and under pressure.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

Merchandising Experience: 6 - 8 years