Design Director (ACD) - Originals - Brand Design (m/f)

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  • Herzognaurach  
    Bayern, Germany
    perm  
  • Company
    Adidas  
    Start date
    ASAP  
    Duration
    n/a  
    Wage
    Undisclosed
  • Closing date
    11 November 2016  
    Posted on
    13 October 2016  

Purpose

Develop and direct industry leading creative solutions for concepts and categories, to create a highly relevant, desirable and clear adidas brand image, from sell in to sellout (consumer-facing)

Lead and manage the internal creative team to achieve worldclass results

Key Accountabilities

  • Lead the Creative development for multiple concepts or categories across multiple consumer touchpoints, from 2D to retail to digital
  • Develop concepts and creative strategies that fulfill objectives of category, concept, brief
  • Collaborate with Product Design team to ensure holistic storytelling
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer- and brand focus
  • Set priorities, creative and assignment-related, of team
  • 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

Key Relationships

  • Design Directors, Creative Directors
  • Product Designers
  • Brand Communications
  • Retail, C2C
  • Product Teams
  • External Agencies and Art/Creative Directors
  • External Creative Resources

Knowledge,  Capabilities and Experience

  • IT skills:  Excel, Word, PowerPoint: advanced /Outlook
  • Design apps: expert
  • Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create impactful/exciting visuals
  • Language: English fluent and other European languages advantageous

Qualifications

  1. Under-graduate level Design education or combination thereof
  2. Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development of communication tools
  3. At least 10 years experience in Sporting Goods/Fashion Industry or Design on managerial level
  4. 5 years personnel management experience
  5. Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, pre-press processes)
  6. Passion for adidas and its mission
  7. Passion for sports, culture, design

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