PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
This role will deliver a best-in-class early careers offering. Develop and execute the market Early Careers strategy, attracting, developing, and retaining the next generation of adidas leaders.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for setting strategy, defining processes, and establishing accountability measures for a defined and structured approach to future talent recruitment for both corporate and retail.
- Ensuring the market future talent strategy is aligned with the adidas business strategy and diversity goals, building strong pipelines of talent across the business. Conducting regular review meetings with business leaders and key HR business partners.
- Completion of annual competitor analysis regarding future talent salary/relocation/benefits package and implementation of changes where necessary to ensure a best in class offering.
- Partnering with ECTA peers to drive global consistency and parity in ECTA Programs where possible.
- Lead the annual position planning process – working with business leadership and HRBPs to increase opportunities to build a pipeline and hire future talent into the organization.
- Initiate and maintain relationships with priority university career centers to increase visibility. Joining on-campus recruitment fairs, organizing adidas events on campus, hosting students on adidas campus and hosting virtual events.
- Define marketing attraction strategy targeting Gen Z. Leveraging internal alumni, relevant advertising resources and key university relationships regionally and globally to attract world class applicants.
- Responsible for setting strategy, defining processes, and establishing accountability measures for a defined and structured approach to the GCA Early Career Programs.
- Design and execute an effective onboarding/induction experience that sets the foundation for the ongoing learning curriculum of the program. Design using market data, business leaders, business steerco and HRBP input, leveraging internal learning offerings and external vendors when necessary.
- Design an ongoing developmental program/learning curriculum – utilizing business stakeholders to inform decisions and design based on the talent needs of the future. Ensuring that learning progression throughout the program is measured.
- Responsible for engagement and retention efforts. Host ongoing engagement events; ERG events, athlete/ambassador events, senior management speaker series, cross-functional education events, networking, end of program celebratory events etc.
- Operate as a SPOC for program participants, managers, and other key stakeholders.
- Consistently refine and update the program based on industry and early careers best practices.
- Partner with People Analytics to measure and track progress against key metrics.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
- TA/TP teams and HRBPs
- Business Leaders
- External vendors
- GBS
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
:- Self leadership: continuously develop self to stay up to date on industry trends and developments in area of expertise, benchmarks performance against industry best practices, gives and receives feedback, incorporates it into their own development plan.
- Commercial and business acumen: good understanding of the business, from a business, strategic, financial and product point of view, able to translate this to strategy/plan in own area and convey in a compelling way to the market.
- Effective communicator: strong interpersonal skills, communicates effectively in writing and verbally, has gravitas and able to build relationships.
- Driving results: strong results and delivery focus, takes personal ownership to deliver best results, manages recruitment mandates of self and team, and strives & drives operational excellence in team and projects.
- Data & Insights: brings outside in perspectives, uses data and insights to influence decisions, drives broader talent/recruitment solutions.
- Credibility, Collaborate & Influence: expertise and credibility in area, able to work with and influence effectively a wide array of stakeholders, builds strong relationships and partnerships cross functionally/regionally.
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in HR related field
- Successfully participated and significantly contributed to large, complex, global projects and/or led local initiatives and functional priorities, involving multiple stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead early careers programs across multiple stakeholders and achieving project objectives.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.
COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company’s standards.
RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.
AT ADIDAS, WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT EMBEDDING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI) INTO OUR CULTURE AND TALENT PROCESSES GIVES OUR EMPLOYEES A SENSE OF BELONGING AND OUR BRAND A REAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.
– CULTURE STARTS WITH PEOPLE, IT STARTS WITH YOU –
BY RECRUITING TALENT AND DEVELOPING OUR PEOPLE TO REFLECT THE RICH DIVERSITY OF OUR CONSUMERS AND COMMUNITIES, WE FOSTER A CULTURE OF INCLUSION THAT ENGAGES OUR EMPLOYEES AND AUTHENTICALLY CONNECTS OUR BRAND WITH OUR CONSUMERS.
JOB TITLE:
Senior Manager Early Career
BRAND:
LOCATION:
Shanghai
TEAM:
People & Culture
STATE:
SH
COUNTRY/REGION:
CN
CONTRACT TYPE:
Full time
NUMBER:
532956
DATE:
Aug 11, 2025