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*We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Develop industry leading creative solutions for assigned concept or category, to create a highly relevant, desirable and clear adidas brand image, from sell in to sellout (consumer-facing)

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Creative development for concept or category across multiple consumer touchpoints, from 2D to retail to digital
• Develop concepts and creative strategies that fulfill objectives of category, concept, briefs
• Collaborate with Product Design team to ensure holistic storytelling
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer- and brand focus
• Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence from sellin to sellout (consumer-facing)
• Direct variety of creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc) on creative execution to ensure holistic creative excellence
• Review and approve production stages of creative execution
• Maximise results within given budget and timeframes
• Participate in creation of annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies
• Present and communicate creative solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders
• Identify opportunities of improvement and change, and initiate own proposals/projects
• Seek out new Design resources that can deliver world class results

Key Relationships:

• Design Directors, Senior Design Directors, Creative Directors
• Men´s & Kids Design Teams
• Product Marketing & Development
• External Creative Resources (agencies, freelancers, photographers, etc)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• IT skills: Excel, Word, PowerPoint: advanced /Outlook
• Design apps: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop: expert
• Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create impactful/exciting visuals
• Styling and photoshooting experience, visualization thru AI.
• Language: English: excellent

Another European language: fluent

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Under-graduate level Design education or combination thereof
• Work experience inside & outside of Adidas.
• At least 6-8 years experience in Sporting Goods & Fashion Industry.
• At least 2 years of management experience (design lead)
• Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, sampling)
• Passion for adidas and it’s mission
• Passion for sports, culture, design