Senior Manager, Sourcing Operations

adidas

Senior Manager responsible for sourcing operations and factory relationships at adidas. Driving sourcing strategy and ensuring standards are met across development, commercialization and production.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeJakarta • 🇮🇩 IndonesiaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the overall sourcing business, operations, and functions in designated groups of factories/operations centers, to execute the global sourcing strategies.
Manage the relationships between adidas Group and Tier1 ensuring that adidas Sourcing objectives are met.
Accountable for leadership of the Development & Commercialization and Production teams in the supplier groups/OCs ensuring that they fully carry out their expected JD/R&R and that all company standards are met with support from relevant functional heads when needed.
Own all KPI performance of the managed vendors within assigned “Country of Origin (“CoO”) and own the relationship at Supplier Group level where relevant.
Drive company key initiatives, such as Quality, ME/CI, SPIKE, and Tier1/Tier2 alignment programs and projects to ensure overall and supplier capabilities are industry leading / world class.
Build and maintain close working relationships with the factory senior management and internal functional leads to ensure quick resolution of issues as well as engage them in the overall company strategies.
Represent operations both internally & externally and foster a strategical partnership and relationship with our customers.
Provide input and regular update of information necessary to support the allocation process.
Ensure all operations comply with relevant local laws respecting human rights, health and safety of all employees and environment.
Streamline processes through continuous improvement techniques and tools and challenge existing standards and procedures.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

University degree in engineering or related areas
Minimum 7+ years of work experience of which ideally 5 years were in production creation/ manufacturing and in managerial positions.
Have wide experience of sourcing management concepts of consumer goods.
Strong presentation, negotiation, influencing, interpersonal and communication skills.
Fluent in English (written and spoken)
Strong MS Office Skills
Strong leadership skills and ability to work with multidimensional teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Invest in people skills through Development and Training
Provide ongoing coaching to the team members

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Hard Skills & Tools

sourcing managementproduction creationmanufacturingcontinuous improvement techniquesKPI performance managementquality managementconsumer goods sourcingproject management

Soft Skills

leadershippresentationnegotiationinfluencinginterpersonal skillscommunicationteamworkproblem-solving