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Manager, MI - PCT & Tooling
Location:
Guangzhou
Description:
PURPOSE • 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. • Execute tooling sourcing strategies, perform audits, and certify local footwear mold vendors capability, availability and enhancing quality performance. • Deploy new and innovative tooling creation technologies that shorten lead times, driven automation, bring cost competitiveness and enhancing mold quality. • Support /consult tooling operations to ensure tooling development & commercialization compliant with the brand designs, performance, timelines and quality requirements. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Execute tooling sourcing strategies, perform audit certify adidas tooling capability and performance enable tooling availability respond business scope. • Implement new and innovative tooling creation technologies in term of driven sustainability, technological capability, product security, supply based reliability and bring cost competitiveness. • Ensures business relationships between adidas, the certified mold factories and machine suppliers are maintained at the highest level of trust and integrity • In collaboration with Operations Managers and tooling teams balance the tooling allocation seasonally enable optimize mold vendors’ capacity, neutral product complexity smoothen sole production. • Coordinate with SEA team regarding health and safety requirements and compliance in mold shops. • Establish, review and updated (if required) standards, best practices, manuals and process as needed in all areas. • Role model leadership to foster Diversity Equity & Inclusion culture that strives for an inclusive workplace. KEY RELATIONSHIPS • Global Sourcing • Global Operations: Advance Creation Technology • Global Brands Operations: Digital Business Solution • Other Global Functions Teams: Global IT • Sourcing Suppliers: Tier 1, Mold Shops & Vendors KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES • Strong technical knowledge of tooling design, engineering, mold making and manufacturing, 3D CAD Technology, CAM, and Additive Manufacturing • Good technical footwear knowledge of product construction and manufacturing methods • Strong influencing, people, presentation and communication skills • Proven ability in leading multidimensional teams • Fluent in English (written and spoken) • Strong Microsoft office skills REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE • University degree in technical field • Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably in technical areas of tooling and pattern engineering. • A formal qualification in shoe making, mold making and lasting would be advantageous.
Company:
Adidas
Posted:
April 4 on adidas
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