Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Leads adidas’ Corporate Affairs efforts in the US and Government Affairs at the local level to enhance the public profile of adidas with relevant stakeholders. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Identifies, builds, and maintains relationships with the state and local business community, industry associations, and neighborhood associations. 
• Identifies, builds, and maintains relationships with state and local governments. 
• Assists with federal government affairs issues, including leading on local aspects of federal government relations issues. 
• Serves as lead contact with select non-profit organizations. 

Key Relationships:

• NAM Legal
• Social Purpose
• Corporate Communications
• Interacts internally with all levels of organization. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Ability to network and identify strategic opportunities with businesses and industry associations to provide mutually beneficial promotion opportunities.
• Ability to advocate for adidas’ interests to state and local governmental entities.
• Proven ability to apply integrative thinking to strategic planning and decision making.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong computer, research, and analytic capabilities.
• Attention to detail with excellent project management, process, and organizational skills to prioritize multiple projects and activities in a faced paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams with diplomacy and tact.
• Ability to reach, analyze, interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and government regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagram, and/or schedule form.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University Degree in Government, Political Science, Public Administration, or a similarly focused degree
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a strategic lead with a major organization in the areas of Government Affairs, Public Affairs, or Corporate Affairs, or as a staffing lead for a federal, state, or local government official.
• We welcome the combination of experience and education in lieu of a degree.