In order to strengthening our sourcing activities, adidas Group, the world famous Sportswear Company, is seeking an aggressive and energetic individual to join our team and take the position of:
COORDINATOR, LABORATORY (FOOTWEAR SOURCING)
This position will report to Manager, Laboratory.
Materials
- Provide forecast information on time and accurately. Understand supplier’s capacity and limitations in order to ensure that materials are delivered timely. Track supplier’s delivery performance.
- Use material expertise to improve material sourcing and quality where appropriate.
- Collaborate on the execution of OSE (Overall Supplier Evaluation) program by collecting reliable data from all factories and work with suppliers to improve performance.
- Coordinate color ring distribution and Color Network system for Vietnam factories and suppliers.
- Review new material setup requests for accuracy and supervise entry into PDM (Product data Management).
Lab
- Engage with “internal customers” and provide on-spot and complete solutions for their needs.
- Initially creates special test procedures/requirements with related functional teams based on "best practice experience", consult with LO lab manager if necessary.
- Compile and analyze test information to determine quality of materials and components and recommend actions for improvement.
- Provide advice/suggestion of new/innovative materials for development department.
- Balance the quality and delivery, assist functional teams in terms of applying restricted release for materials.
- Confer with other LO labs and outside experts to conduct analyses and interpret test results in order to ensure adidas quality and performance criteria are met.
- Advise factory chemical test team in monitoring materials chemical test status, conducting random test, and exchanging information with other functional teams.
- Establish or adjust working procedures in factory lab to meet testing schedules.
- Ensure adidas test methods are properly implemented in factory lab and all test reports are correctly written and analyzed.
- Advise factory lab personnel in special test procedures to analyze components and physical properties of materials, if necessary confers with LO Materials & Lab Supervisor
- Ensure the factory laboratory equipment is calibrated according to adidas calibration procedure.
- Advise factory labs in facilitating organization structure, work arrangement and lab layout.
- Train factory lab personnel in testing procedures, specs, calibration procedure and A-01 policies.
Key Relationships:
Work with factory, operation team and materials suppliers on any quality and delivery issues
Requirement:
- University degree, preferably with chemistry background or shoe industry experience (at least 3 years).
- Good knowledge about materials is a plus.
- Fluent English
- Good communication skills
- Quick learner of new skills and processes
- Good time management
- High team work spirit
- Well versed with MS office applications
- High capabilities for taking personal initiative
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Prefer Indonesia Citizenship Holder
Interested parties please send your application to us on
http://www.adidas-group.com/en/careers/jobs/career_adidas_apac.asp and search for reference number: 1650
Only short listed applicants will be notified. All applications will be treated in strict confidence and only used for the purpose of selection.
