Adidas SENIOR MANAGER CONCEPT SOLUTIONS 

Portugal, Porto 

46440573

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION

Concept engineer to deliver superior and novel technical solutions that enhance product performance and enable athletes to achieve higher levels of performance, breaking records.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide engineering support to High Performance Concept projects and the associated cross-functional team.
• Provide clear goals, measurements of success and the strategy to deliver solutions against identified athlete opportunities.
• Follow the prioritized activities to maximize innovation impact for the brand.
• Strive to be best in class consulting engineer, providing effective immediate support and building understanding of medium and long-term project needs.
• Solve challenges to improve product performance and enable multiple solutions to emerge through innovative methodologies and teamwork.
• Seek solutions that are protectable for Intellectual Property and work with legal team to protect.
• Manage the testing of solutions to examine product performance metrics versus benchmark products.
• Enable solutions embodiment in product prototypes along with clarity on needed requirements to maintain efficacy.
• Collaborate on validation of products through athlete testing
• Write the specification of the validated products, so that quality control and assurance and enhanced means of manufacture can be developed.
• Support commercialization and scaling of high-performance products and associated takedowns into mass production through trouble shooting durability, performance, manufacturability issues.
• Use resources of budget and personnel with due regard for output and performance.
• Initiate and collaborate with technical internal and external partners.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Educate and train colleagues by sharing knowledge on an ongoing basis.
• Prepare and present engineering results reports, communicating to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Stay connected to relevant current and upcoming research, technologies, methods and industry trends. Build an effective information network.
• Partner with leading organizations to extend the capability of the team.

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Curiosity for science and engineering along with a passion for practical application in an impactful way.
• Advanced university degree in a technical field.
• 6 years of working experiences, including postgraduate research.
• Fluent English (spoken and written).
• Communicate and present effectively.
• Cooperate well, develop and maintain meaningful relationships.
• Work independently as well as part of a team.
• Plan working time efficiently, balancing short term tasks with long term goals.
• Strong analytical skills, solution driven and results oriented.
• Ability to travel internationally.