Senior Manager, Manufacturing OA

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

• Fully accountable for quality, production, manufacturing efficiency targets and Social & Environmental Affairs (SEA) in one or more factories

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a production team in one or more factories which have multiple production facilities in different geographically locations in managing all production process, quality, Manufacturing Excellence, SEA and adidas Group standards implementation.
• Manage operational relationship with the factory production top management to drive best practices across different quality mindsets and cultures of the assigned factories using CI techniques and quality tools.

• Manages the development of cohesive and customer focused production direct reports ensuring that quality is the paramount priority and focus.
• Lead a team and contribute to the achievement of team objectives.
• Give input to issuing directives in production and related supply chain (T2/T3) area.
• Tactical and operational direction setting focus primarily on direct area of responsibility. Influence direction in the production area
• Make day to day decision including those in moderate or high level of complexity within the defined production quality, availability, Manufacturing Excellence (ME), SEA scope.

• Explain standard or directives to HQ (Brand Operations, Quality) and external parties (Factory QIP/Prod Heads) to accept practices, approaches or solutions for the purpose of achieving shared goals (e.g. quality and efficiency.)
• Influence factory (T1 & Supplier T2) production/quality Senior plant Management and drive change to achieve right quality mindset in the responsible factories.

Key Relationships:

• Sourcing Director, Head of Manufacturing Excellence, Footwear Quality
• Factory General Managers , Factory Heads of Production, Factory Heads of QIP
• 3rd party / external auditing firms (Quality, Lab, SEA, Sustainability, Security, etc…)
• Tier 2 material suppliers-as lead
• Senior Development/Commercialization Manager.
• Other GOPS functions (Brand Operations, Quality, Costing, Planning, SEA, Materials, etc…)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• Have a strong Continuous Improvement (CI) and quality mindset. Able to utilize depth of manufacturing knowledge to identify problems and provide solutions in Footwear industry. 
• Use CI techniques and quality tools to continually improve efficiency and quality standards.
• Actively manage and develop direct reports with a high focus on effective teamwork.
• Coach and support direct reports to further their skills, capability and management competencies.
• Have knowledge and expertise and can support country/regional based projects within defined scope of production.
• Can lead projects but required training in project management skills.
• Strong written and verbal English communication.

Requisite Education and Qualifications:

• University degree preferably in engineering.
• Minimum of 7-8 years experience in Footwear industry with at least 3-4 years in managerial position. 
• 2-3 years experience in one other function outside Production i.e. Quality, Commercialization, Planning or Development would be an advantage.