Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization\nResponsible for driving a creator culture to deliver against leading stories and product collections in the Running Footwear segment.\nBe unapologetically consumer obsessed generating relevant stories and products that excite the China market.\nHave a professional balanced approach to work within a dynamic and creative environment whilst balancing the need for operational excellence and speed to market.\nKey Responsibilities\n\nBe a Consumer Obsession champion with a special emphasis on winning the China consumer\nExtend RUNNING FTW strategy in the given segment and maintain connectivity to Germany HQ creatives to ensure a one brand consumer facing message\nAdvocate story telling throughout the design team and drive intuitive visual solutions in product concepts\nDesign concepts and products that maintain consumer advocacy whilst delivering against the product brief\nBe a creator and an innovator always exploring fresh executions, materialization and color expression\nMotivate + lead fellow designers on the journey to winning consumers and market share whilst adhering to the strategic vision articulated by management\nPresent stories and ideas cross functionally with effectiveness to gain consensus\nBe responsible to drive team members and work within the constraints of close to market dynamics and speed\n\nKey Relationships\n\nDirect Design reports\nProduct Marketing\nProduct Development\nGlobal Design counterparts\n\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities\n\n\n\nHave key insights into RUNNING FTW market landscape\n\n\nSolid experience in RUNNING FTW creation\n\nStrong communication skills to articulate concepts, ideation and collections seamlessly to various members of the organization\nAbility to excel and thrive in a team environment with a high level of diversity\nDeep knowledge of footwear creation process and how cross functional members contribute\nAbility to create leading propositions whilst also being a guru of commercializing trends with adidas codes\nMature approach and ability to persuade, negotiate and compromise to produce win/win scenarios\nKnowledge of design, development and marketing processes with a passion for ideation sharing\nIntellectually curious and always seeking the new\n\n\n\nRequisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications\n\nBachelor or University Degree in industrial design or related educational experience and at least 7 years related work experience\nExperience in RUNNING FTW totally new design with colors, materials and graphics experience being a preference\nCross functional expertise in addition to Design would be advantageous\nIT: Superior experience in usage of all key design software and systems, expert in Design apps, software that are impactful to conveying ideation visually\nBasic communication skills in English\n