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PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION

  • Develop industry leading creative solutions for assigned concept or category, to create a highly relevant, desirable and clear adidas brand image, from sell in to sellout (consumer-facing)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead the Creative development for concept or category across multiple consumer touchpoints, from 2D to retail to digital
  • Develop concepts and creative strategies that fulfill objectives of category, concept, briefs
  • Collaborate with Product Design team to ensure holistic storytelling
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer- and brand focus
  • Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence from sellin to sellout (consumer-facing)
  • Direct variety of creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc) on creative execution to ensure holistic creative excellence
  • Review and approve production stages of creative execution
  • Maximise results within given budget and timeframes
  • Participate in creation of annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies
  • Present and communicate creative solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders
  • Identify opportunities of improvement and change, and initiate own proposals/projects
  • Seek out new Design resources that can deliver world class results
  • Creating 3D concept representation, 3D assets, digital product information for an accurate development and decision-making process

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

  • Design Directors, Creative Directors
  • Product Designers
  • Brand Communications
  • Retail, C2C
  • Product Teams
  • External Creative Resources (agencies, freelancers, photographers, etc)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

  • IT skills: Excel, Word, PowerPoint: advanced /Outlook
  • Design apps: expert
  • Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create impactful/exciting visuals
  • Art Direction of photoshoots, pre-press reviews and approvals
  • Strong 3D skills and knowledge of virtual tools are required

APP tools: Clo3D, Browzwear, VStitcher or similar 3D fashion design tools

FTW tools: Rhino, Modo, ICAD Pro, or similar 3D design tools

  • Language: English: excellent

Another European language: fluent

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Under-graduate level Design education or combination thereof
  • Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development of communication tools
  • At least 6-8 years experience in Sporting Goods/Fashion Industry or Design on managerial level
  • Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, pre-press processes)
  • Passion for adidas and it’s mission
  • Passion for sports, culture, design
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