Purpose:

A key player in Product Development & Sourcing (PD&S) in driving PD&S’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Innovative & Most Sustainable PD&S in the industry.

Lead the Costing Business Analytics function with a focus on developing and improving dashboards, reports and tools to provide strategic insights on cost drivers to leadership for decision making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enable PD&S management, BU Costing & Sourcing Operation teams to make informed decisions by providing structured costing analyses and deep dives.
• In charge of strengthening and achieving optimal product cost and maximize negotiating leverage for adidas products through Costing reporting and analytics.
• Collect, benchmark, and analyse regional costing data for the respective Liaison Offices (LOs) to drive cost competitiveness and policy improvement.
• Lead and manage the development and continuous improvement of product costing analytics to ensure Costing requirements and objectives are met to improve Global Costing performance.
• Identify opportunities and synergies to standardize cross-functional analytics and develop new capabilities; and customize where necessary.
• Implement and manage new Costing metrics and incorporate into Costing Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Dashboard, update new analytics to relevant counterparts where necessary.
• Ensure the reliability and accuracy of costing systems to enable operational efficiency, data reporting and analysis.
• Provide Sourcing Leadership with insights on ad-hoc analytics requests, costing driver developments, and supplier competitiveness using systematic analytics and benchmarking methods.
• Proactively upskill on industry and costing relevant knowledge, embrace information-sharing to leverage learnings.
• Provide ongoing coaching to direct reports to continually strengthen the organization.
• Ensure all sourcing operations and practices fully comply with adidas’ Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy, adidas standards and legal requirements, while managing the relevant processes internally and externally.
• Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity & Inclusion that strives for an inclusive workplace.

Key Relationships:

• PD&S: Sourcing Operations, Costing, Materials, Allocation & Planning, Manufacturing Excellence
• Business Unit Costing Operations, Global Strategy & Programs, TECH
• Global Finance: Brand Finance and Sourcing Finance

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Strong knowledge of Sourcing industry, specializing in product costing, product development or production preferrable
• Strong business acumen with the ability to link costing analytics to business context and decisions
• Strong analytical skills, problem-solving, solution and customer-oriented
• Strong project and change management skills
• Strong presentation, negotiation, influencing, people and communication skills
• Ability to think critically and provide different perspectives
• Ability to work independently and drive results
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Strong Microsoft office skills

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in Multinational Company environment e.g. top tier consulting, project management, fashion, supply chain management background