Adidas ASSISTANT MANAGER TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

29210210

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Support the global transportation day-to-day operational activities and processes. Create visibility on service levels to support the team in delivering a high level of efficiency, responsiveness, and flexibility in the logistics end-to-end operations. Understand the transportation requirements of the adidas Group’s stakeholders and translate those into service deliverables and system/data requirements for our Logistics Service Providers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support end-to-end testing and evaluate results as per project requirements.
• Prepare and conduct training with internal and external key stakeholders, including logistics service providers, Logistics team, market inbound team, for project implementation.
• Establish and generate reports and dashboards for monitoring project implementation progress and performance.
• Identify potential lessons learned and risks during testing and implementation to manage mitigation.
• Engage in shipping instruction management.

Key Relationships:

• Regions, Markets, Sales Subsidiaries globally
• Global Logistics, Supply Chain Management & Sourcing
• Finance, Global IT
• Global Logistics Service Provider & Carrier Portfolio

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to solve practical and theoretical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Team player, high degree of self-management, enthusiasm, drive to perform. Self-starter, ability to work and build cooperation in a multinational team/matrix organization, very strong in negotiation and finding compromise.
• Understanding of the bigger picture and end-to-end supply chain.
• Strong in data analysis and reporting skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and in writing, to interact effectively and efficiently at different layers of the organization.
• Ability to work and deliver in changing environments, under very limited guidance while adhering to specified deadlines.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Excellent language proficiency; multi-lingual abilities in other languages preferred.
• A 4-year degree from an accredited college or university with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, logistics, planning, supply chain, information systems, or operations; MBA a plus.
• 4 years work experience, ideally in an apparel/fashion supply chain management or a fast-moving logistics environment, particularly related to supplier/contract, project, and supply chain management including overall logistics responsibility.
• Experience in multi-national transportation logistics with the energy to implement change.