Senior Director, Planning - Indonesia/India

adidas; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 1,500,000,000 - 2,100,000,000; Full time

Job summary

adidas is seeking a senior leader to head regional sourcing planning across multiple origins, ensuring capacity and on-time delivery. You will drive harmonization of planning processes, lead strategic projects, and manage a large team of manufacturing leads.

The role requires extensive experience and fluency in English. Responsibilities include optimizing capacity, collaborating with POPs, GPS/GT Nexus systems, and ensuring compliance with adidas' policies while developing talent and maintaining

Qualifications

• University degree in engineering or related field.
• Minimum 12+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Lead a medium to large team of manufacturing leads to ensure high finished goods availability.
• Define standard planning processes for regional operations aligned with global guidance.
• Drive strategic projects supporting adidas strategy.
• Be the key contact for regional supply chain initiatives and systems.
• Harmonize processes across regions and coordinates with suppliers and 3PLs.
• Manage forecasts/orders, ensure timely delivery updates, and mitigate availability risks.
• Oversee factory start-up documentation, onboarding, and training.

Job description

PURPOSE

• Key player in Sourcing in driving Sourcing’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Digitalized & Cleanest Supply Base in the industry.
• Building a strong production planning function for the respective region by establishing best practice processes as well as driving planning process harmonization across the region. Support CTN strategy regarding all planning related topics. Manage strategic planning related projects and drive implementation across the respective region.
• Lead the region in capacity & fill rate management covering multiple countries of origin, KPI performance monitoring/tracking through a proactive approach to delivery and performance issues with the overall objective to maximise finished goods availability/on time order fulfilment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage, develop (incl. succession planning) and direct a medium to large sized team of manufacturing leads to censure a high degree of finished goods availability through timely resolution of production issues.
• Define and set the standard of all planning related processes for OCs in the region, in-line with global guidance.
• Support definition and drive implementation for key strategic projects in support of Company Strategy.
• Be the key contact within the LO for certain supply chain initiatives (Speed Models, GPS and TradeCard/GT Nexus systems, etc.)
• Drive process harmonization across the region and other LO’s by establishing best practice processes and managing implementation in the region.
• Supplier Strategy/Allocation:
  • Act as the key contact for the region for POPs Ops/Strategy HKG to manage seasonal development/production allocation process by facilitating communication between POPs Ops/Strategy HKG and SDSOs.
  • Work with POPs Ops/Strategy HKG to ensure sufficient capacity/capabilities are available to support regional development/production allocation process.
• FC/Order Management:
  • Enforce that forecasts/orders follow standard (system) processes and are passed on to T1’s in a timely manner.
  • Manage order confirmation process according to deadlines as well as ensure that most updated delivery status and delay information is accurately maintained in system.
  • Proactively manage identification of availability risks/improvement opportunities as well as creation and execution of respective corrective action plan to address these. Drive improvement in key metrics (SDP, PDP, MDP, Speed share, etc.) with a pragmatic business mindset.
  • Be accountable for managing PO as well as product transfers according to transfer SOP incl. system updates.
  • Drive planning related communication and improvements between Tier1/Tier2s to enhance material availability and between Tier1s/3PLs to enhance product hand-over.
• Provide and communicate consolidated Performance Overview for respective region/factories and address performance issues accordingly.
• Create and own/support new initiatives to find new ways to level load and create manufacturing efficiencies within the sourcing organization.
• On-boarding: Responsible for factory start up process including documentation and terminations.
• Provide training support to operations teams and suppliers on policies and systems such as GPS, ILA and other systems pertaining to planning, ordering/tracking, documentation and invoicing.
  • Form and maintain the appropriate organizational structures for end-to-end process. Identify and develop future talent and ensure appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through effective motivation, coaching, training and development of direct reports and teams in the country.
  • Maintains at the highest possible level an adidas public image of professionalism and integrity and contribute back to the community.
• Ensure all sourcing operations and practicesfully comply with adidas’ Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy, adidas standards and legal requirements, while managing the relevant processes internally and externally.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Global Sourcing
• Headquarter (HQ) laboratory – factory laboratories.
• Other Global Function team: Social and Environmental Affairs / Government Affairs
• External stakeholders: Sourcing Suppliers

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Proven success in manufacturing environment with good knowledge of the Sporting Goods industry
• Strong conceptual thinking
• Strong influencing, people, presentation and communication skills
• Strong leadership skills and ability to lead multidimensional teams
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree in engineering/materials or related areas
• Minimum 12+ years of relevant experience and 5+ years of people management experience

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

• COURAGE:Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
• OWNERSHIP:Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
• INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
• TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
• INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company’s standards.
• RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

At adidas, we strongly believe that embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into our culture and talent processes gives our employees a sense of belonging and our brand a real competitive advantage.
– Culture Starts With People, It Starts With You –
By recruiting talent and developing our people to reflect the rich diversity of our consumers and communities, we foster a culture of inclusion that engages our employees and authentically connects our brand with our consumers.