Manager, Manufacturing FTW

PT. ADIDAS INDONESIA; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 450,000,000 - 650,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PT. ADIDAS INDONESIA is seeking a seasoned professional to drive production, quality, and manufacturing efficiency across adidas’ partner facilities. You will lead problem-solving discussions and apply best practices to ensure availability, asset optimization, and adherence to adidas policies.

Responsibilities include guiding factory management, ensuring process excellence, and maintaining strong cross-functional relationships to deliver on production goals and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• University degree in engineering or related areas.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience with production, quality, and continuous improvement processes.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage production, quality, production availability, and manufacturing efficiency.
• Escalate critical issues and drive problem-solving discussions to mitigate impacts.
• Manage relationships with factory management to achieve operation excellence.
• Rollout adidas best practices to responsible factories.
• Influence factory production/quality middle management to reach objectives.
• Make day-to-day decisions within defined scope through risk-balanced judgment.
• Validate and confirm capacity offers and monitor availability when constraints exist.
• Ensure sourcing operations comply with adidas Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy and standards.

Skills

Production management

Quality management

CI processes/methods

Problem solving

Influencing

Presentation

Communication

Fluent in English

Microsoft Office

Education

University degree in engineering or related areas

Job description

A key player in Global 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 management and drive change to achieve production objectives.
• Make day-to-day decisions within defined scope through exception-management by evaluating and balancing risks and seeking support on complex issues.
• Validate and confirm T1 capacity offers and follow up on availability performance when constraints exist.
• 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

• Global Sourcing
• Global Operations
• Other GOPS/Sourcing functional teams

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Strong understanding of production and continuous improvement (CI) processes/methods
• Ability to provide effective input into projects“Quality-first” mindset, strong analytical reasoning, and problem-solving skills to help others find/solve “root cause issues”
• Strong influencing, people, presentation and communication skills
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Strong Microsoft office skills

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree in engineering or related areas.
• Minimum 5+ year years of relevant experience