Adidas MANAGER MATERIALS INNOVATION SCALING 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

992037055

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. Manage to commercialize the infrastructure for new material technologies to achieve business objectives. Manage strategic suppliers of new materials technologies. Execute towards scaling up innovative materials technologies and ensure smooth transition into Materials Operations team.

• Work with Engineering & Manufacturing Innovation (E&MI) team and Advanced Creation to identify new development requirements and define handover timelines to Sourcing for new materials technologies.
• Implement project plans to outline the required technology infrastructure to bedeveloped.
• Project management to ensure project delivery on time and regular briefing on the status to internal stakeholders.
• Onboarding new supply bases with insights from Creation Functions and HorizontalConcepts.
• Conduct continues improvement activities for outlined technologies with ‘best practices’

• Identify potential constraints to raw material supply and productioncapacity.
• Where new machinery is required, provide insights about machinery suppliers’ capacity

machine lead times to make machinery purchasesdecision.

• Assist to facilitate the communication paths and contacts between T1 and T2 as new factories incorporate defined technology. Ensure alignment of lead times, ordering process and quality requirements between T1 & T2.
• Collaborate with Materials Operations team for handed-overtechnologies.
• Collaborate with Costing to develop and/or optimize methods of costing new materialtechnologies.
• 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.