Adidas SENIOR DIRECTOR PRODUCT 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

338072496

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

according to the overarching BU and direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Steer STATEMENT vision, strategic objectives/actions and the financial targets.
• Lead the statement creation team culture towards Statement North Star – pioneer the edge of industry with culture guardians, creating products nobody has seen but authentic and unexpected.
• Manage the partner portfolio and projects towards the highest culture credible impact across fashion, ENG and Consortium.
• Manage industry network and bring the insights to build up the best outcome for the brand
• Lead and steer the product creation process in close relationship with Design, Development, and deliver the outcome for key creation milestones
• Act as a cross-functional marketing team captain across design, development, GTM, Comms, finance, build up strong partnership with them.
• Steer and lead the creation teams across HZO Fashion, HZO ENG & Consortium and TKO
• Set specific KPI under statement strategy and manage the activities.
• Build strong relationship with top FI accounts to get their insight and deliver the relevant offer
• Staff most suitable persons in direct report positions in alignment with HR.
• Set personal objectives, guidelines and assess all direct reports.
• Develop functional and social skills of direct reports on and off the job.
• Manage all reports as an integrated team by setting objectives, targets and guidelines to ensure smooth cooperation of all direct reports along all interfaces.
• Identify and prepare talents in the respective Business Unit for career progression within the adidas organization.

Key Relationships:

• External collab partners & internal biz affairs
• Design & Product Operations
• Statement GTM
• Statement Comms
• Culture Marketing
• BU Inline leads

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive knowledge of Fashion and Streetwear Industry including future opportunities and challenges
• Extensive knowledge of product creation in sport industry
• Team leadership, Inspire, coach and lead; set framework for performance and growth
• Strong communication skills
• Strategic minded with strong executional abilities
• Excellent presentation skills
• Lead change management
• Excellent English

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduate level Marketing
• Min. 5 years of sport product creation experience
• Min. 9 years of progressive experience in SGI on management level
• Min. 4 years leadership of diverse & global teams in a matrix organization
• Proven track record in Marketing