Manager, Manufacturing Footwear (OA1)

PURPOSE
•    A key player in Sourcing in driving Sourcing’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Digitalized & Cleanest Supply Base in the industry.
•    Drive achievement of quality and production goals in supply partners’ facilities while supporting other functions to reach adidas’ goals in areas such as manufacturing efficiency targets, Social & Environmental Affairs (SEA).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 
•    Independently manage all production, quality, production availability, and manufacturing efficiency.
•    Escalate critical issues and drive problem-solving discussions to solve or mitigate the potential impacts.  
•    Manage relationships with factory management in applying the right resources, processes, tools, strategies to achieve operation excellence.
•    Rollout and implement adidas best practices and directions to the responsible factories.
•    Influence factory production/quality middle man...