-Responsible for driving a creator culture to deliver against leading stories and product collections in the Originals Apparel segment.

-Be unapologetically consumer obsessed generating hyper relevant stories and products that excite the China and Asia Pacific markets.

-Have a professional balanced approach to work within a dynamic and creative environment whilst balancing the need for operational excellence and speed to market.

Key Responsibilities:

-Be a Consumer Obsession champion with a special emphasis on winning the China and APAC consumer

-Extend Originals APP strategy in the given segment and maintain connectivity to Germany HQ creatives to ensure a one brand consumer facing message

-Show full understanding and drive the product creation process whilst managing all tasks within the given time frames

-Show leadership through living the brand values

-Build and maintain a strong relationship with cross-functional teams and with interlinked departments to enable an efficient product creation process

ensure product excellence

-Pro-actively analyse business, draw conclusions and act upon

drive profitability and efficiency

-Strong knowledge of product information systems and the interlinking functions – clarity on respective timelines

-High level of product expertise to create industry leading products

-Be a competent partner for product and ranging discussions with markets and retailers

-Prepare and present ranges and business related topics - with respective audience in mind - by using relevant structure and content

-Actively provide input for setting the CtC (Concept to Consumer) direction and implement it into relevant ranges in partnership with CtC counterparts

-Identify projects to optimize category performance

work independently and steer to conclusion

Key Relationships:

-Steer a strong relationship and ensure constant dialogue/feedback with

-business unit and across other BU´s

-cross-functional team ( Design, Development, CtC, Sports Marketing, Materials, Costing, Planning)

-markets and relevant third parties

-Strong communication skills to articulate concepts, ideation and collections seamlessly to various members of the organization

-Have key insights into Originals, sportswear, streetwear and the market landscape

-Ability to excel and thrive in a team environment with a high level of diversity

-Deep knowledge of Apparel creation process and how cross functional members contribute

-Ability to create leading propositions whilst also being a guru of commercializing trends with adidas codes

-Mature approach and ability to persuade, negotiate and compromise to produce win/win scenarios

-Knowledge of product marketing, design and development processes with a passion for ideation sharing

-Intellectually curious and always seeking the new

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

-Bachelor or University Degree, preferably in marketing/business/textile/fashion

-Minimum of 6 years Product Marketing experience with APP, FTW or ACC background

-Experience in trade or sales is helpful

-Excellent communication skills in English

-PC skills (MS Office programs)