Purpose:

• Assisting to execute tooling sourcing strategies, perform audits, and certify local footwear mold vendors capability, availability and enhancing quality performance.
• Assisting to deploy new and innovative tooling creation technologies that shorten lead times, driven automation, bring cost competitiveness and enhancing mold quality.
• In collaboration with tooling operations to ensure tooling development & commercialization compliant with the brand designs, performance, timelines, and quality requirements.
• Support digital creation scope related tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support to execute tooling sourcing strategies ,peform audit certify adidas tooling capability and peformance enable tooling availbility respond business scope.
• Implement new and innovative tooling creation technologies in term of driven sustainability, technological capability, product security, supply based reliability and bring cost competitiveness.
• In collaboration with Operations Managers and tooling teams balanece the tooling allocation seasonally enbale optimize mold vendors’ capacity, neutral product complexity smoonthen sole production.
• Coordinate with SEA team regarding health and safety requirements and compliance in mold shops.
• Establish, review and updated (if required) standards, best practices, manuals, and process as needed in all areas.
• Assisting Virtualization/Digital Creation process innovations & certify Tier 1 suppliers’ capability and performance of Virtualization/Digital Creation enable respond seasonal business scope.

Key Relationships:

• Global Operation - Advance Creation Technology (ACT)
• Sourcing Operation – Tooling team/Development Team
• Tier 1 & Tier 2 & mold shop
• Machinery, Chemical & Technology vendors

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Comfortable with ambiguity, flexibility, tenacity, eagerness to learn
• Proactive approach towards problem solving and ability to work independently to deliver projects
• Ability to think strategically and creatively
• Basic understanding in the fields of computer graphics (CG), CAD/CAM, design applications (both 2D and 3D) and digital data analysis
• Technical and analytical skills to address challenges, specifically in the areas of digital tools for product creation
• Excellent English language proficiency; multi-lingual abilities in local languages preferred.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University or College degree
• At least 1-3 years experience in CAD/CAM or 3D modelling
• At least 1-3 years experience in Tooling Industry