Manager Global Procurement

Adidas

Adidas

Shanghai, China

Posted on Mar 19, 2026

Key Responsibilities:

Compliance & Process

  • Always keep high integrity level and be leading by role model
  • Ensure purchasing policies and processes strictly followed in each purchasing activity

Category Management

  • Lead and fulfil China for China strategy implementation of procurement category related strategies in alignment with relevant business partners, sourcing category scope include: tranportation etc. est. 40-50mil euro.
  • Lead creation and implementation of sourcing and supplier strategies and ensure compliance with procurement policies, standards, and guidelines.
  • Lead and shape supplier selection processes in alignment with business partners at different levels, negotiate service scope, cost and contract term of routine category sourcing projects.
  • Support tactical buying with knowledge transferring and project monitoring for GCA scope
  • Implement category supplier relationship management, supplier performance review supplier database maintenance.
  • Always catch up the supply market trend on innovation, should-cost study, collaboration model etc.
  • Identify sustainability opportunity and drive for results

Financial

  • Carry out systematic review on cost effectiveness and quality of non-trade purchasing
  • Ensure transparency and openness in vendor bidding process, selection and evaluation
  • Assess financial stability and risk of potential vendors
  • Support precise budgeting for relevant expenses

People Management

  • Open and collaboration to support KPI delivery

Training

  • Serve as topic specialists for internal training needs on price negotiation
  • Continuous learning about latest market practice and trend

Key Relationships:

  • Global Procurement
  • Global SCM, GCA SCM
  • Market Finance
  • Other key business functions like Legal, Internal control. Compliance control and GBS
  • External suppliers

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Minimum 5-8 years experiences in indirect purchasing management positions, ideally in consumer goods or apparel industry with management experience, ideally in transporation and SCM related category
  • Impeccable integrity

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor degree or above
  • Category knowledge
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills
  • Business acumen
  • Proactive and independent
  • Able to work under pressure
  • Innovative and result driven
  • Fluent English and Mandarin required