Senior Designer Apparel Sportswear

This role is crucial for achieving adidas' creative vision and overseeing the development of new collections across the design process. The role leads the design team in analysing the company's outdoor apparel line, generating new design concepts, optimising workflow, and leveraging existing designs. It ensures the quality and consistency of design outputs across all platforms, channels, and media.

• Develop and execute seasonal creative narratives, ranges, and product stories, ensuring alignment across product types, colours, materials, silhouettes, and graphics.
• Oversee the entire creative process, identify industry trends in colour, materials, and graphics, and influence merchandising and assortment strategies.
• Translate abstract business concepts and customer needs into creative design solutions.
• Take ownership of the creative vision, ensure high-quality output from team members, and set a high standard for design excellence.
• Pitch ideas and present the creative vision confidently to stakeholders and team members.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire the design team through people management and leadership, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Ensure all creative output aligns with the brand's identity and meets a high qualitative standard, including compliance with Corporate Identity guidelines and legal restrictions.
• Manage unexpected projects, feedback, and factors from conception to completion while meeting deadlines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with the brand's strategic priorities, champion innovative ideas, ask insightful questions, take calculated risks, and drive identification of long-term and seasonal trends to contribute to innovative retail strategies.
• Optimise the creative process to align final products with brand image and commercial objectives, and create meaningful, engaging experiences for users while developing own skills and career.

• Bachelor's degree/Master's in Fashion Design or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 5+ years as a senior-level designer.
• At least 2-3 years of management and leadership experience, demonstrating the ability to lead teams toward achieving strategic goals.
• In-depth knowledge of functional materials/technical aspects and strong hard skills.
• High sensitivity to trends and the ability to incorporate them into design work.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and create plans that meet or exceed expectations while being open to feedback.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate the creative vision, concepts, ideas, and solutions clearly to stakeholders, teams, and clients.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment, turning abstract ideas into concrete design solutions.
• Enthusiastic about collaborating with distributed teams and stakeholders to deliver design solutions.
• Fluency in English and Mandarin with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and MS Office.

• Experience in sports brands and a proven track record of successful projects.
• Experience in collaboration projects (crossover fashion & functional) with external partners.

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