Director, Product Creation (Sportwear)
Adidas
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Provide leadership, a dynamic environment for success and collaboration across functions and cultures to achieve results. Manage the respective Sportwear FTW Creation Hub, managing a team of Product Creation professionals to deliver against the stated seasonal objectives and longer term aspirations for Sportswear Footwear.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create, drive/steer and implement the SPW FTW vision, strategic objectives and KPI’s in alignment with the overall SPW FTW direction and strategic plans.
- Work closely with the Senior Director to build short, mid, and long term BU strategies to achieve excellence and industry leadership at the product creation center
- Develop new product/product concepts to exceed consumer and customer expectations
- Lead/refine/develop industry leading speed & service models – to enable the adidas brand to take on these ways of working into the wider group
- Get faster, get leaner, get more efficient and profitable, by refining more processes & roles of marketing, creation, design, to change the game for adidas
- Identify business opportunities and risks; respond to them by initiating key action steps and with relevant BU functions and x-functional partners.
- Lead by example, a decision maker able to challenge the status quo to deliver results
- Create a powerful team spirit with a passion towards exceeding short, mid and long term goals and objectives
- Presents Range both internally & externally (Ops/Sourcing/T1)
- Manages product management resources, ensuring organizational efficiency through appropriate motivation, training and development of direct report(s).
- Ensures maintenance of all the product information systems
- Oversees and drives all projects and milestones for product creation hub
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Proven leadership, including ability to manage/mentor team(s) and lead cross functional teams and resources both internal and external
- Experience interpreting design intent, offering alternative solutions, and acting as a technical resource.
- Proficient working with factory vendors to ensure and improve manufacturability.
- Highly organized and resilient leader, a high tolerance for ambiguity, with an outstanding ability to seamlessly balance constantly evolving priorities.
- Ability to participate in multiple seasonal projects with competing resources and deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a keen awareness of the audience. Knowing when to dive deep into the details and when to simplify the complexity.
- Unique blend of marketing, development and sourcing experience to suit the Sportswear FTW business model
- Ability to work with and influence all levels of the organization
- Comprehensive understanding of consumer markets, specifically in the sporting goods industry
- Strong business acumen in channel distribution, net sales, margin, profit and inventory
- Prior knowledge of taking product from conception through implementation preferred
- Knowledge of footwear concepts in construction/development strongly preferred
- Good numerical skills with the ability to negotiate
- Skill in MS Office applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Smartsheet)
- Ability to travel, domestic and international.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- Four year college or university degree, preferably in Marketing/Business
- Minimum seven (7) years related experience
- Equivalent education and/or experience may be substituted for degree
- Experience in Footwear Marketing and or development
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