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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: <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Enable PD&S management, BU Costing & Sourcing Operation teams to make informed decisions by providing structured costing analyses and deep dives.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">In charge of strengthening and achieving optimal product cost and maximize negotiating leverage for adidas products through Costing reporting and analytics.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Collect, benchmark, and analyse regional costing data for the respective Liaison Offices (LOs) to drive cost competitiveness and policy improvement.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">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.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Identify opportunities and synergies to standardize cross-functional analytics and develop new capabilities; and customize where necessary.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Implement and manage new Costing metrics and incorporate into Costing Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Dashboard, update new analytics to relevant counterparts where necessary. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 3.0pt 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensure the reliability and accuracy of costing systems to enable operational efficiency, data reporting and analysis.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provide Sourcing Leadership with insights on ad-hoc analytics requests, costing driver developments, and supplier competitiveness using systematic analytics and benchmarking methods.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Proactively upskill on industry and costing relevant knowledge, embrace information-sharing to leverage learnings.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provide ongoing coaching to direct reports to continually strengthen the organization.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">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.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity & Inclusion that strives for an inclusive workplace.</li> </ul> Key Relationships: <ul> <li style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">PD&S: Sourcing Operations, Costing, Materials, Allocation & Planning, Manufacturing Excellence</li> <li style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Business Unit Costing Operations, Global Strategy & Programs, TECH</li> <li style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Global Finance: Brand Finance and Sourcing Finance</li> </ul> Knowledge Skills and Abilities: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong knowledge of Sourcing industry, specializing in product costing, product development or production preferrable</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong business acumen with the ability to link costing analytics to business context and decisions</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong analytical skills, problem-solving, solution and customer-oriented</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong project and change management skills</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong presentation, negotiation, influencing, people and communication skills</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to think critically and provide different perspectives</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to work independently and drive results</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Fluent in English (written and spoken)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong Microsoft office skills </li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">University degree</li> <li style="margin:6.0pt 0.0cm 1.0 E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Minimum 7+ years of experience in Multinational Company environment e.g. top tier consulting, project management, fashion, supply chain management background</li> </ul>

Senior Manager, Costing Business Analytics (Kwun Tong, HK)