Sr Director Store Development

Adidas
United States, Oregon, Portland
Mar 13, 2025
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: As the Senior Director of Retail North America Store Development, you are responsible for providing an outstanding brand and consumer experience across our market retail and franchise portfolio by leading the US and Canada Store Development organization, including Concept Design, Consumer Journey, Construction, Facilities and Vendor Management. The role is responsible for building and remodelling NAM stores in alignment with the Global Standards and managing the respective CAPEX. Responsible for compliance with the market's health & safety policy and procedures, including compliance with legal regulations. Key Responsibilities: Directly manages NAM Store Development and Design professionals and CAPEX budget. Partners with the Sr. Director of Real Estate and Finance in managing the BPM process and ensuring that all construction related costs are captured appropriately in strategic financial submissions. Oversee all strategic and operational pre-construction and construction processes, including capital improvements, construction of new spaces and remodels of existing spaces, ensuring timely and cost effective construction and delivery on new and/or existing retail locations. Accountable for utilizing a system of controls within the construction process to guarantee effective and efficient use of internal and external resources. Leads and monitors the retail implementations, processes and service structure, ensuring health & safety measures are followed at all times. Leads the coordination of Store Development, Merchandising, Retail Sales Development, Marketing and Visual Merchandising for the planning and implementation period of new stores and refits. Manages multiple implementation projects within market at various stages of implementation: planning and coordination of fixtures and fixture orders, ensuring the business registration and job safety over a defined period, ordering all necessary services and materials Defines & sets service level agreements with all Store Development related maintenance partners for later management by the Facilities and Vendor Management team. Implements Store Concepts in line with concept documentation, guideline and commercial KPIs. Monitors and tackles quality issues in real time using provided standardized processes & documents. Manages & signs off all installations per market, provides documentation with required detail. Guarantees that all projects are within budgets, in store openings, closures and refits as well as generate efficiency. Leadership responsibilities: Evaluates the competencies of his/her employees on a regular basis and provides prompt and feedback and guidance to drive high performance Takes ownership for Talent Management processes to grow, develop and retain talents. Promotes a high performance culture by setting clear expectations and individual goals. Translates the company goals into team specific actions and business plans. Control and monitor performance and results. Key Relationships: Real Estate NAM Head of Stores and Retail Store Leadership Retail Operations Visual Merchandising Marketing DTC Finance, Procurement and Business Solutions Supply Chaing 3rd party providers NAM Senior Management team Global Store Development and Concept teams Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Strong communication skills Advanced numeracy, literacy and verbal communication skills Strong negotiating and influencing skills Strong process and project management skills Strong presentation and planning skills Proficiency on MS Office Applications Excel, Word, Outlook and Power Point and CAD++ Ability to influence and drive consensus and solutions with cross functional teams Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals Ability to speak, read and write in English fluently; additional language skills beneficial Ability to travel both domestic and internationally as needed Strong Team builder - comfortable working in a matrix organization, across boarders/time zones working with a diverse and international group of highly skilled leaders and experts Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: Degree in project management for the building industry, civil engineering or architecture or equivalent professional experience Minimum of 8+ year's multi-national Retail Store Development or architectural engineering experience 8+ years project management experience and/or leadership experience Exposure to Store Operations & Visual Merchandising beneficial