Director, Manufacturing FW - adidas Group - Republic, MO

China (Peoples Republic of)

Job Function

Sourcing

State / Province

China (Peoples Republic of)

Position Type

Full time

City / Location

Guangzhou

HR Contact

Lucy Liu

Referral Bonus Eligible

No Selection

Brand

adidas Group

Relocation

No Selection

Job Grade

M2

At adidas Group, our love of sport drives who we are and what we do. But just as a ball is more than leather and thread, and a shoe more than padding and plastic, we are bigger than our products. We don’t just work to create faster shoes and lighter fabrics: We strive to help athletes everywhere perform their best. We believe that it’s hard work inventing the future of sport, and that’s why we love it; that when you push your limits, you make it possible for others to push theirs.

At adidas Group, this drive it what connects us, whether we’re working for TaylorMade, adidas, Reebok, or Rockport. We’re all working toward a future motivated by passion, original thinking, and the desire to build upon a proud legacy.

From design to production to logistics to technology, every role in all our brands is connected to this. Our roles span the range of our brands, as well as spanning the globe. No matter what you do, or what country or city you do it in, your work helps make greatness possible.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

• Fully accountable for quality, production, manufacturing efficiency targets and SEA of the designated groups of factories/Operations Centers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple production teams of the designated groups of factories/Operations Centers in managing the production process, quality, production planning, Manufacturing Excellence, SEA and adidas Group standards implementation.


• Make day to day and long term impactful decisions within the defined production, quality, availability and ME / SEA scope.


• Set and influence tactical and operational direction for production and related supply chain (T2/T3) area.


• Give major input to issuing directives in production and related area.


• Manage tactical and operational relationship with the factory production top management across different supplier groups, influence different quality cultures and mindsets through process streamlining using CI techniques and quality tools.


• Works directly with the Factory GM in term of factory production personnel skills evaluation and through SOM provide facts/business cases to get the Factory GM/Owner to invest into various productions mfg machineries.


• With support from SOM, ensure best practices, cohesive messages, projects are shared or implemented consistently across factories in the area of quality, production and ME.


• Act as LO Shoes Master responsible for coaching, training/teaching and continuously upgrading technical, shoes manufacturing expertise and decision making capability of the Production personnel of the designated groups of factories/Operations Centers.

Key Relationships:

• Director Sourcing Footwear, Director Mfg Excellence Footwear, Footwear Quality


• Factory GMs , Factory Heads of Production, Factory Heads of QIP


• 3rd party / external auditing firms (Quality, Lab, SEA, Sustainability, Security, etc…) – as lead


• Tier 2 material suppliers-as lead


• Sr Development/Comm Manager.


• Other GOPS functions (Brand Operations, Quality, Costing, Planning, SEA, Materials, etc…)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven management experience incl leading, developing and motivating and building effective team within a function/department. Managing team remotely


• Experience in coaching and mentoring people and succession management.


• Have proven depth and breadth of experience in production and quality area which can be called up on to co-lead or support regional or global projects related to his/her area of expertise.


• Can independently lead LO based projects within defined scope of production.


• Excellent written and verbal English communication.


• Chinese, Indonesia or Vietnamese local language an advantage.

Requisite Education and Qualifications:

• University degree preferably on shoe making or engineering.


• 10+ years shoes making or quality experience in Footwear industry.


• Experience on production and quality or product development/commercialization.


• Proven manufacturing expert / shoes master.


• 4-5 years combined experience in at least 2 functions/area: production, development/commercialization or general Operation Center Management

Posting Notes: Guangzhou || China (Peoples Republic of) || China (Peoples Republic of) || || adidas Group || Asia Pacific || No Selection