Job Title : Senior Manager, Manufacturing OA2
Location : Jakarta
Company : adidas
Salary :
Open Date : 2024-04-18
Close Date : 2024-08-18

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.

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