Recruitment Partner jobs at Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Key Responsibilities:

Clusters Talent Initiatives

• Partner with HR Directors and HRBPs across clusters to translate the EM Talent Strategy into local actions, pilots, and programs aligned with cluster business priorities.
• Design and deliver cluster-specific initiativesthat build leadership capability, accelerate development, and strengthen succession pipelines.
• Track progress, impact, and adoptionof market initiatives across clusters, consolidating insights and reporting for leadership.
• Act as a strategic consultant on talent processes (performance, succession, development, learning culture), ensuring consistent adoption with cluster relevance.
• Identify and scale best practicesfrom clusters, fostering knowledge sharing and cross-market collaboration.
• Leverage data and insights to diagnose talent gaps, anticipate future skill needs, and recommend targeted interventions.
• Embed DEIin every initiative to ensure representation, belonging, and equitable opportunities.
• Co-facilitate talent workshops and learning sessions with HRBPs and business leaders to reinforce a growth and feedback culture.
• Provide regular feedback to the EM HUB on what works in clusters to influence and improve EM-wide talent tools and frameworks.

2. EM HUB Project Management

• Drivead-hoc regional projectsthat strengthen talent culture and connection across Emerging Markets — such as EMCareer Week…

• Ensure seamless planning, alignment, and storytelling tomaximize impact and visibilityacross all markets.

• , ensuring continuous improvement and recognition of success stories.

Key Relationships:

• EM Talent Team
• EM HR Team
• Clusters HRDs, HR teams & SLT
• Global Talent Team

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to think strategically to partner with HR and business management.
• Strong expertise in Talent areas (Talent Management, Leadership Development, Learning, Performance Management, Succession Planning).
• Understanding of the integrated Talent Management Processes.
• Commercial awareness, customer focus, understanding of HR and business strategy
• Facilitation skills and internal consulting skills; ability to analyze the situation and provide effective solutions, program design skills, consulting mindset with good executional skills and follow-through.
• A good team player, self-starter, driven to get strong results.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present and sell concepts to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to build trustful relationships with key stakeholders and HR partners and manage conflicts.
• Proven project management skills ensuring clear accountability of tasks, producing great quality outputs as per the milestones.
• Being able to lead and drive change independently.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent preferably with a focus in Talent Management, HRM, Psychology orPersonnel Management.
• Minimum 8-9 years progressive work experience in the field of HR (preferably in an international organization/ consulting/ ideally with both HRBP and Talent experience).
• Experience in the implementation of HR Tools.
• Growth and international mindset.
• Fluent in English.

Key Responsibilities:

• Driving category business success across all KPI’s through execution category plan global-local. Developing a dynamic category GTM plan considering di­fferent consumer needs and distribution channel in the marketplace.
• Responsible for delivering a complete local range plan for the respective category (product, product communication tools, product prices, activation tools, RID, forecasts, local prices, range size, cancellation, re-phasing, ABOs and Marketing support where necessary etc.) by balancing both brand and commercial considerations and supporting the business strategy of the channels and supports the sell-in process to all stakeholders.
• Coordinates sell in process for upcoming season and make preparation for sell-in tools (Showroom preparation, sell in presentation etc)
• Manage and implement definition tools and drive conclusive competitive analysis to influence pricing considering the competition. Provide pricing inputs to the range architecture framework.
• Delivers profitability of the respective categories by managing pricing, margin efficiency, FOBs and product category mix.
• Drives the GTM for the respective categories and supports CTC function by aligning with BA/Omni team on Marketing plans, communication tools, activation tools, marketing support
• Analyses the sell-through performance of the categories and contributes to the strategic planning based on the analysis. Tracks category selling performance, and proposes action plans when necessary to drive sales and improve respective categories KPIs.
• Ensures has the proper tools to implement (and to adapt locally where necessary.) the GTM strategies successfully and to have the correct level of support during the implementation
• Assists Manager CTC adidas in preparing and analyzing reports by providing and consolidating data and by using analytical skills and know-how.

Key Relationships:

• CTC Manager and entire adidas Turkey Brand Team
• EM Turkey Channel Teams (DTC, e-Com, Wholesale)
• EM Hub Bus and CTC
• EM Turkey, SCM
• EM Turkey, Mops
• EM Turkey Demand Planning

KPIs:

• Brand Health KPIS (Brand momentum, Net Promoter Score, Spontaneous purchase intent, etc.)
• Net Sales, GIM%, Share of Category, Gender
• Orderbook Development
• Range size and efficiency (incl. overlap)
• Local Production / SMU / Early Launch efficiencies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g., relationship management, collaboration, creativity, confidence and facilitation)
• Strong cross functional experience, across merchandising, category management, brand and sales
• Structured, organized and process orientated
• Excellent presentation skills
• Fluent in written and spoken English is a must.

Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in business, ideally with marketing and sales focus or equivalent professional experience
• > 3 years of Category Management/ Ranging/ Merchandising Experience ideally in sporting goods, fashion or other youth culture brands
• Strong presentation/communications and influencing skills IT skills: Outlook and Word: Basic; Excel and PowerPoint: advanced.

sales channel for our Digital

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive strategic direction of the Partner Program live business, including growth plans to achieve both Net Sales and Operating Profit progression
• Ensure a close liaison with the Europe eCommerce & Wholesale teams, to both avoid duplication & drive synergies in achieving respective digital wholesale targets at a holistic account level

• Lead for Partner Program Trading pillar optimizing commercial processes and results through creating a high-performing and inclusive team that oversees trading with our Alliance Key Accounts (AKAs), Cluster accounts, Specialist, Outlet and/or Marketplace partners
• Working closely with the Sr. Director Digital Sales to define the Partner Program category proposition in Europe including ranging, forecasting consolidation, reporting and active in season management.
• Support the Sr. Director Digital Sales in developing a trading and service framework across the Platform Trading team, establishing a detailed account management process with respect to all existing and future partners.
• Responsible for the accurate forecasting, account planning and in-season execution of Integrated Business Plans (IBP) covering the Partner Program business in Europe
• Responsible for knowing the consumer, category, channel, competitor and macro-economic country situation for partner program key account categories. This includes the European retail and eCom environment in distribution, share of buy, competitor ranges and pricing.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Create and drive a high performance culture across a team of Traders who will act as the lead account interface post account go-live for our Partner Program partners. Set clear expectations and targets, analysing account performance, holding Partner Program Trading managers accountable and giving appropriate and prompt feedback.
• Define the account strategy for current and future Partner Program accounts under your responsibility in close alignment with Wholesale key account management teams
• Represent live Partner Program accounts internally towards all functions, ensuring aligned and effective collaboration across the end-to-end Account Management process.
• Drive collaboration with Market Europe Business Units, Local Marketing and Sales toexecute seasonal plans at account level to drive adidas market share gains.
• Own merchandising planning and buying alignment pre and in-season to ensure that eCom Product Merchandising teams are aligned to product and range priorities for the Partner Program.
• Support the definition and implementation of all Partner Program Trading reporting, bringing together Wholesale and eCom data to drive brand and commercial success.
• Own and define all reporting required from a Partner Program Trading perspective, working to bring together WHS and eCom data to drive and measure the commercial success of our accounts and range performance.
• Lead the in-season management and day-to-day operations of all live accounts under you and your team’s responsibility.
• Facilitate and own business planning and financial forecasting process for live Partner Program accounts.
• Pro-actively manage all business KPIs linked to order fulfilment and inventory management, e.g. net sales, standard margin, operating profit, cancellations etc.
• Partner closely with the Partner Acceleration, Partner Experience & Operations and eCommerce teams to facilitate the seamless set up and launch of new account business

Key Relationships:

• Partner Program Partner Acceleration, Analytics and Partner Experience & Operations teams
• Europe eCommerceProduct Merchandising, Operations,Finance and Sales Planning & Analytics
• Europe Excess Inventory Management & Factory Outlet teams
• Global Digital Wholesale and Local Digital Sales teams
• Market & Local Wholesale sales teams & leadership
• Marketplace team and business/technical teams of partner accounts
• Europe Supply Chain Management team, IT, Finance and Legal teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Extremely strong organizational and planning skills - flexibility to handle multiple tasks and business partners. Ability to work in deadline driven environment.
• Focused on achieving results & confident to take on accountability to deliver to expectations
• Experience in leading and developing inclusive teams - ensure high performance efficiency through effective motivation, training and development
• Strong PowerPoint skills required coupled with excellent communication skills.
• Advanced Excel skills and high proficiency in spreadsheet analyses. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated and passionate about deriving business insight from financial data, improving financial and business processes, and solving problems.
• Proven P&L Delivery and able to participate and confidently provide quantitative and qualitative input in investment review.
• Pro-active approach to work & a go-getter mindset with ability to engage and inspire direct and indirect teams
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively – proven ability to navigate and be effective in matrix organizations.
• Dynamic and adaptable – can quickly and effectively assimilate and drive change, quick to learn new systems and tools
• Understanding of retail merchandising, buying, product planning and/or sales and the product creation process is a plus
• Comfortable working in an international environment.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in BA / BS in Business, Finance, Economics or related field is preferred
• 8-10 years professional experience in digital/eCommerce is required, with business development, account management, sales & financial planning preferred
• Proven experience in driving sales and having worked within or with large scale, international key accounts on a local level
• Experience working in the Sporting Goods & Fashion industry preferable, or relatable industries FMCG
• 3+ years Management experience
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required; at least one other European language would be beneficial.

:

• Build and maintain a close partnership with the Commercial Leadership Team and actively contribute to decision-making on key people topics, ensuring alignment of talent strategies with business priorities.
• Ensure consistent application of cluster, market, and Group HR standards while tailoring HR solutions to meet the specific needs of the Sales organization.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all Talent Development initiatives, including Leadership Development, Succession Planning, and Performance Management, ensuring the organization builds and sustains the right capabilities for the future.
• Manage employee relations with a strong proximity approach, acting as a trusted partner for employees and leaders by fostering open communication, addressing concerns promptly, and ensuring a positive employee experience.
• Provide high-quality HR support across the employee lifecycle, with a focus on developing leaders, strengthening the talent pipeline, and fostering a high-performance culture.
• Partner closely with other HRBPs to design and implement people strategies that directly enable business growth, while ensuring consistency with cluster, market, and Group HR standards.
• Manage workforce planning, annual salary rounds and promotions/salary adjustments for defined areas in accordance with Global guidelines and in close cooperation with the HRD Italy.
• Proactively liaise with Reward South Europe and Talent Acquisition South Europe COEs.
• Ensure that all HR systems and tools (e.g., SuccessFactors modules) are accurately maintained and up to date, guaranteeing reliable data.
• Oversee the timely and compliant management of employee-related documents (contracts, warnings, promotion letters, etc.), ensuring alignment with legal requirements and Group HR standards.

Skills you'll need:

• University degree or equivalent (preferably in economics or HR Management)
• Minimum of 6 years progressive work experience in the field of HR (preferably in an international organization).
• Strategic business partnering and ability to influence Sales leaders
• Expertise in Talent Development: Leadership Development, Succession Planning, Performance Management
• Strong knowledge of labor law and employee relations management
• Proficiency in HR systems (SAP Org Management, SuccessFactors) and accurate HR documentation
• Creative problem-solving and ability to challenge the status quo
• Collaborative leadership and ability to work effectively on cross-functional projects.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and coaching skills.
• Sound Knowledge about the local labour law and regulations
• Fluent in English and Italian.
• MS-Office skills, SAP experience is advantageous.

Life at adidas:

• Annual bonus
• Meal Voucher
• Gym and Sports opportunities
• Free access to self-learning platform
• Employee Assistance Program (personal counselling)
• Hybrid working model

In this role, you will be responsible leading the entire recruitment process and closely partnering with HR, Business and Recruiting colleagues in order identify, to qualify and attract the best talent for adidas. As the Recruitment Partner for Retail, you will focus on recruitment mandates for Europe Retail Stores, in addition to driving strategic talent acquisition topics within Europe Retail. You will support Retail leadership teams in the recruitment process within their own teams.

As a Recruitment Partner for Retail, you will be responsible for managing the entire recruitment process from sourcing, screening, interviewing, to offer stage. You will have a true passion for engaging with candidates and hiring teams and delivering exceptional candidate experience and recruitment services.

Your business acumen, passion for recruiting and a genuine commitment to thinking outside of the box are core skills needed in this role.

In your role, you will partner closely with your hiring teams to develop functional recruiting strategies and act as an expert recruiting partner to HR and business within Europe retail.

You will leverage adidas’ local sourcing hubs and work closely with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and roles to encourage a collaborative hiring process.

Maintaining an ‘always on’ approach you will continuously utilize various channels to attract the best talent including proactive outreach to passive candidates for every search, proactive outreach and passive candidates.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy, and offer process and continuously work with the hiring teams to identify opportunities to improve the process.
• Leverage relevant advertising resources and apply other relevant candidate marketing strategies to create local, regional and global awareness (if needed) in order to attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.
• Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) in addition to other sourcing channels (university, competitive research, job fairs, social) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.
• Screening resumes and conducting initial phone screens to assess qualifications as well as suitability for role, followed by in-depth interviews evaluating skills, experience and culture add.
• Build, engage and maintain pre-qualified as well as prospective candidate pools of strong former candidates and new candidates within the functional area that your support.
• Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
• Continuously identify new candidate pools and leverage existing resources and various channels, such as social media, job boards, referrals and networking, to proactively identify passive candidates to create awareness and proactively reach out to them.
• Provide guidance to the hiring teams throughout the recruitment process and frequently update them on the status of the process.
• Advocating for and driving a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy.
• Conduct weekly check-ins with active candidates and hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role.
• Own responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drives standards to ensure a quality performance against all standards.
• Effectively utilize comprehensive knowledge of adidas brand and adidas Group offerings, benefits, comp strategies, and programs to market adidas and the adidas Group as an Employer of Choice.
• Lead additional recruitment initiatives as needed.
• Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with functional/market leadership and key business partners of all levels to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a strategy on effective recruitment activities for positions within your area of responsibility.
• Conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders and key business partners to provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.
• Support retail teams with TA upskilling, trainings, best practices, hiring events, assessment centers, toolkits roll out.
• In partnership with HR and Legal, be an advocate for Retail leadership to ensure all interviewing and hiring practices are aligned with TA policy and local and federal regulations.
• Drive strategic talent strategies with Retail Leadership in partnership with HR to help drive proactive building of candidate pipelines within retail stores and teams.
• Actively participate in retail events including the following but limited to: Retail Sales Meetings, Store Visits, Hiring Events, District and Regional market meetings.
• Participate in onboarding trainings for any new hires within Retail leadership to conduct training on TA topics.
• Ability to flex schedule based on business demand to accommodate hiring needs.
• Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions, recommending improvements and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.
• Apply and adapt broader talent acquisition strategies (employer branding, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) within your designated function or market.
• Act as a key point of contact to support the implementation of global initiatives within your designated function or market.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Human Resources Business Partners
• Broader Human Resources Business Partners
• Retail Leadership
• Broader Talent Acquisition and Talent teams

KEY MEASURE OF SUCCESS

• Speed of hire
• Candidate and hiring manager experience
• Diversity of hire
• Internal hire ratio
• Quality of hire
• Proactive sourcing and talent pool conversions

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 4-6 years’ experience in international/global recruiting, leading local, international and global recruitment mandates for all level candidates through a broad range of sourcing channels (including proactive outreach).
• Specific expertise/experience recruiting for Retail business strongly preferred.
• Industry experience and deep knowledge of the footwear, apparel and/or retail industry.
• Experienced working in large, international/global matrix company.
• Experience working with vendors and managing relationships and driving results through collaboration
• Demonstrated track record of driving end2end, holistic recruitment mandates (including sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in volume roles and global recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) to achieve hiring goals.
• Experienced in offer negotiation, awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends.
• International experience, having worked on projects in multiple geographies.
• Knowledgeable about managing diversity & inclusion from talent acquisition perspective.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English + local languages: Polish and German is required.

• ​an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.
• This position will follow a hybrid working environment,working 3 days in office or store and 2 days remote.The working location of this position is Warsaw, Poland.
• This position may require up to 25% travel for the market is supports.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.

In this role, you will be responsible leading the entire recruitment process and closely partnering with HR, Business and Recruiting colleagues in order identify, to qualify and attract the best talent for adidas. As the Recruitment Partner for Retail, you will focus on recruitment mandates for Europe Retail Stores, in addition to driving strategic talent acquisition topics within Europe Retail. You will support Retail leadership teams in the recruitment process within their own teams.

As a Recruitment Partner for Retail, you will be responsible for managing the entire recruitment process from sourcing, screening, interviewing, to offer stage. You will have a true passion for engaging with candidates and hiring teams and delivering exceptional candidate experience and recruitment services.

In your role, you will partner closely with your hiring teams to develop functional recruiting strategies and act as an expert recruiting partner to HR and business within Europe retail.

Maintaining an ‘always on’ approach you will continuously utilize various channels to attract the best talent including proactive outreach to passive candidates for every search, proactive outreach and passive candidates.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy, and offer process and continuously work with the hiring teams to identify opportunities to improve the process.
• Leverage relevant advertising resources and apply other relevant candidate marketing strategies to create local, regional and global awareness (if needed) in order to attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.
• Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) in addition to other sourcing channels (university, competitive research, job fairs, social) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.
• Screening resumes and conducting initial phone screens to assess qualifications as well as suitability for role, followed by in-depth interviews evaluating skills, experience and culture add.
• Build, engage and maintain pre-qualified as well as prospective candidate pools of strong former candidates and new candidates within the functional area that your support.
• Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
• Continuously identify new candidate pools and leverage existing resources and various channels, such as social media, job boards, referrals and networking, to proactively identify passive candidates to create awareness and proactively reach out to them.
• Provide guidance to the hiring teams throughout the recruitment process and frequently update them on the status of the process.
• Advocating for and driving a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy.
• Conduct weekly check-ins with active candidates and hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role.
• Own responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drives standards to ensure a quality performance against all standards.
• Effectively utilize comprehensive knowledge of adidas brand and adidas Group offerings, benefits, comp strategies, and programs to market adidas and the adidas Group as an Employer of Choice.
• Lead additional recruitment initiatives as needed.
• Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with functional/market leadership and key business partners of all levels to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a strategy on effective recruitment activities for positions within your area of responsibility.
• Conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders and key business partners to provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.
• Support retail teams with TA upskilling, trainings, best practices, hiring events, assessment centers, toolkits roll out.
• In partnership with HR and Legal, be an advocate for Retail leadership to ensure all interviewing and hiring practices are aligned with TA policy and local and federal regulations.
• Drive strategic talent strategies with Retail Leadership in partnership with HR to help drive proactive building of candidate pipelines within retail stores and teams.
• Actively participate in retail events including the following but limited to: Retail Sales Meetings, Store Visits, Hiring Events, District and Regional market meetings.
• Participate in onboarding trainings for any new hires within Retail leadership to conduct training on TA topics.
• Ability to flex schedule based on business demand to accommodate hiring needs.
• Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions, recommending improvements and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.
• Apply and adapt broader talent acquisition strategies (employer branding, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) within your designated function or market.
• Act as a key point of contact to support the implementation of global initiatives within your designated function or market.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 4-6 years’ experience in international/global recruiting, leading local, international and global recruitment mandates for all level candidates through a broad range of sourcing channels (including proactive outreach).
• Specific expertise/experience recruiting for Retail business strongly preferred.
• Industry experience and deep knowledge of the footwear, apparel and/or retail industry.
• Experienced working in large, international/global matrix company.
• Experience working with vendors and managing relationships and driving results through collaboration
• Demonstrated track record of driving end2end, holistic recruitment mandates (including sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in volume roles and global recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) to achieve hiring goals.
• Experienced in offer negotiation, awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends.
• International experience, having worked on projects in multiple geographies.
• Knowledgeable about managing diversity & inclusion from talent acquisition perspective.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English + local languages preferred: Greek, Romania, Bulgarian.

• ​an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.
• This position will follow a hybrid working environment,working 3 days in office or store and 2 days remote.The working location of this position is Athens, Greece.
• This position may require up to 25% travel for the market is supports.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.