Adidas DEVELOPER APPAREL 

China, Shanghai, Yangpu District 

770928883

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the cross functional team to understand the consumer and focus activity and translate findings into performance apparel development, construction and testing requirements.
• Work as part of a cross-functional team to agree and manage the creation process agreeing alignment sessions and handovers in line with seasonal calendar.
• Engineer workable prototypes which address desired function, cosmetics, market appeal and manufacturability and meet adidas quality standards.
• Collaborate and interact directly with dedicated development teams at our Tier 1 partners under the guidance of your manager to ensure that all critical deliverables for key development milestones are met, specifically OTIF provision of high quality development prototypes.
• Ensure that new projects are engineered to cost targets.
• Communicate all necessary information/coordinate all tasks that support on time Color Way Activation for all assigned projects.
• Support the inception of lower complex designs, components, processes, materials and concepts into a manufacturable and marketable finished product.
• Ensure that all materials, processes and development samples are fully tested to ensure adherence to adidas quality standards.
• With guidance from your line manager and peers, you monitor and guide the creation of Bill of Material information at Tier 1 according to established guidelines and calendar milestones.
• Own full accountability for the accuracy of Bill of material information at key development milestones.
• With guidance from your line manager and peers, you assume basic costing responsibilities as laid out in the project manager job description, in particular for pre-dictive costing and pre-costing, you participate in costing meetings driven by your line manager or peers, you contribute to the creation of seasonal costing recaps for projects assigned to you.
• Establish and maintain a strong working relationship with key partners as listed below, managing designated projects to ensure an on time color way activation performance.

• Marketing
• Design
• Advanced Creation
• Tier 1 supply partners
• Materials Development
• Product Creation Technology
• Sourcing
• Fit and Wear Test Department
• Quality Assurance
• Costing
• Supply Chain management

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Ability to understand 2D images in 3D.
• Ability to create, plan and deliver presentations.
• Fluent English; German an advantage.
• MS office skills.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Four-year college or university degree.
• Exposure to the latest in materials, components, processes, and concepts.
• 1 year related work experience in the athletic industry preferred, specializing in product development, design and / or marketing.