Manager Sourcing Operations

PURPOSE

The Sourcing Manager plays a critical role in delivering adidas’ sourcing strategy by ensuring a reliable, competitive, agile, and sustainable supply base that supports the company’s commercial objectives and growth ambitions.

This position acts as the primary interface between the business, product creation teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners, driving end-to-end execution across the product lifecycle - from planning and development through production and delivery.

The Sourcing Manager is responsible for translating business requirements into sourcing and manufacturing solutions while balancing speed, cost,

QUALITY

, sustainability, capacity, and operational efficiency. Through strong cross-functional collaboration and supplier engagement, the role ensures that products are developed and manufactured to meet consumer expectations, market requirements, and company performance targets.

In addition, the Sourcing Manager contributes to adidas' vision of building the industry's most agile, competitive, digitalized, innovative, and sustainable supply chain by identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, manufacturing excellence, process optimization, and supplier capability enhancement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead the sourcing execution and manufacturing strategy for assigned product categories, brands, countries, or business units, ensuring alignment with global and regional objectives.

Act as the key sourcing representative and trusted partner for cross-functional teams including Planning, Product Development, Production Management, Engineering, Manufacturing Innovation, Costing, Materials Management, Sustainability (SEA), Quality, and Commercial organizations.

Drive end-to-end product commercialization and production readiness by coordinating activities from product creation, sampling, material readiness, capacity planning, and cost negotiations through final production execution.

Collaborate closely with suppliers and manufacturing partners to ensure capacity availability, production efficiency, quality excellence, and on-time delivery performance.

Monitor factory performance, identify operational risks, and implement mitigation plans to ensure business continuity and uninterrupted supply.

Lead cost optimization initiatives by balancing product value, manufacturing efficiencies, material utilization, and process improvements while maintaining expected quality standards.

Support strategic supplier development by improving manufacturing capabilities, driving innovation adoption, promoting digitalization initiatives, and enhancing operational excellence.

Partner with Sustainability (SEA) teams to ensure compliance with adidas standards related to environmental, social, ethical, and worker well-being requirements.

Drive transparency and accountability across the supply chain through data analysis, performance tracking, KPI management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Identify opportunities to improve speed-to-market, reduce complexity, increase flexibility, and strengthen responsiveness to changing consumer and market demands.

Serve as the escalation point for sourcing and manufacturing issues, leading cross-functional problem-solving efforts and ensuring timely resolution of business-critical matters.

POSITION IMPACT

Success in this role directly influences:

Product availability and market responsiveness.

Supplier and factory performance.

Cost competitiveness and profitability.

MANUFACTURING EFFICIENCY AND OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE.

PRODUCT QUALITY AND CONSUMER SATISFACTION.

Sustainability and compliance performance.

Achievement of business growth objectives and brand strategies.

PROFILE & EXPERIENCE

Experience in industrial engineering and/or manufacturing

Careers: Quality Engineer or a Textile Engineer o Engineering in general

7–8 years of experience in the textile industry, managing production and quality control

Industry background: retail, sporting goods, textiles, or textile testing laboratories such as Intertek or Bureau Veritas

Advanced English proficiency

Willingness to travel approximately 40–50% of the time

No people management responsibility (individual contributor role)

THE SOURCING MANAGER COMBINES STRATEGIC THINKING WITH STRONG EXECUTION CAPABILITIES, INFLUENCING DECISIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS WHILE BUILDING COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS THAT ENABLE ADIDAS TO DELIVER WORLD-CLASS PRODUCTS EFFICIENTLY, RESPONSIBLY, AND AT SCALE.

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:

Manager Sourcing Operations

BRAND:

LOCATION:

Mexico City

TEAM:

Supply Chain & Sourcing

STATE:

Ciud

COUNTRY/REGION:

MX

CONTRACT TYPE:

Full time

NUMBER:

546393

DATE:

Jul 16, 2026