Senior Director, Planning - Indonesia/India

Is a key player in Sourcing, driving the vision to be the most agile, competitive, digitalised and cleanest supply base in the industry. It builds a strong production planning function for the region by establishing best-practice processes and driving planning process harmonisation across the region, while supporting CTN strategy on all planning-related topics and managing strategic planning projects. The role leads capacity and fill-rate management across multiple countries of origin, monitoring KPI performance and taking a proactive approach to delivery and performance issues to maximise finished goods availability and on-time order fulfilment.

• Manage, develop (including succession planning) and direct a medium-to-large team of manufacturing leads to ensure a high degree of finished goods availability through timely resolution of production issues.
• Define and set the standard for all planning-related processes for OCs in the region in line with global guidance.
• Support the definition and drive implementation of key strategic projects in support of company strategy.
• Act as the key contact within the LO for certain supply chain initiatives such as Speed Models, GPS and TradeCard/GT Nexus systems.
• Drive process harmonisation across the region and other LOs by establishing best-practice processes and managing implementation in the region.
• Manage supplier strategy and allocation as the regional key contact for POPs Ops/Strategy HKG, facilitating communication with SDSOs and ensuring sufficient capacity and capabilities are available to support the regional development/production allocation process.
• Enforce forecast and order management by ensuring forecasts/orders follow standard system processes and reach T1s in a timely manner, managing order confirmation to deadlines, and maintaining accurate delivery status and delay information in systems.
• Proactively identify availability risks and improvement opportunities, create and execute corrective action plans, and drive improvement in key metrics such as SDP, PDP, MDP and Speed share with a pragmatic business mindset.
• Manage PO and product transfers according to transfer SOP, including system updates, and drive planning-related communication and improvements between Tier1/Tier2s to enhance material availability and between Tier1s/3PLs to enhance product hand-over.
• Provide and communicate consolidated performance overviews for the region/factories and address performance issues accordingly.
• Create and own or support new initiatives to find new ways to level load and create manufacturing efficiencies within the sourcing organisation.
• Oversee the factory start-up process including documentation and terminations, and provide training support to operations teams and suppliers on policies and systems such as GPS, ILA and other systems pertaining to planning, ordering/tracking, documentation and invoicing.
• Form and maintain appropriate organisational structures for the end-to-end process, identify and develop future talent, and ensure appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through effective motivation, coaching, training and development of direct reports and teams in the country.
• Maintain the highest possible level of adidas public image of professionalism and integrity and contribute back to the community.
• Ensure all sourcing operations and practices fully comply with adidas' Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy, adidas standards and legal requirements, while managing the relevant processes internally and externally.

• Proven success in a manufacturing environment with good knowledge of the sporting goods industry.
• Strong conceptual thinking.
• Strong influencing, people, presentation and communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to lead multidimensional teams.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.
• University degree in engineering/materials or related areas.
• Minimum 12 years of relevant experience and 5 years of people management experience.

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