Facilities Manager

Overview

At adidas, we believe that a great place to work is more than just a physical space — it’s an environment where people feel inspired, connected, and empowered to perform at their best. As Manager Facilities you will be leading our facilities operations across both corporate offices and retail stores, ensuring a seamless, high-quality, and safe working environment aligned with adidas standards and local regulations.

Responsibilities

- Lead and oversee facilities operations across corporate and retail locations, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and consistency with adidas global standards.
- Drive the development of the Milan offices, contributing to the evolution of our workplace concept and ensuring spaces reflect our culture, sustainability goals, employee experience priorities and apply the H&S procedures when needed.
- Manage a team of internal and external professionals, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing environment.
- Ensure a qualitative working environment, developing and maintaining the right mix of services (e.g., maintenance, cleaning, security, catering, space management) to support employee wellbeing and business needs.
- Build and maintain strong partnerships with key internal stakeholders, including senior leaders, to understand business requirements and influence strategic decisions.
- Manage vendors and service providers, both insourced and outsourced, ensuring quality, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Oversee budgeting and financial management for both corporate and retail facilities, including forecasting, tracking, and optimization of operational costs.
- Negotiate and influence effectively with internal and external partners to deliver the best solutions while maintaining alignment with company policies and sustainability commitments.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety, and environmental regulations, as well as internal adidas standards in strong partnership with H&S department.
- Drive the different tenders for Facilities services with GBS/NTP (energy, gas, car fleet, Security, Cleaning, externalized services....).
- Establish and oversee comprehensive budgeting and reporting processes to optimize resource allocation and cost efficiency across facility management areas such as car fleet, office occupancy, supplier performance (KPIs), and IMS data.

Key Relationships

- Senior leadership team (corporate and retail)
- Real Estate, Finance, Procurement, HR, H&S and Retail Operations teams
- External vendors, suppliers, and landlords

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- Proven experience in facilities management, ideally covering both corporate and retail environments.
- Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop teams.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with a collaborative mindset.
- Strategic thinker with hands-on execution ability.
- Financial acumen and experience managing budgets of significant size.
- Strong stakeholder management and vendor management experience.
- Fluency in English; Italian is an advantage.

Requisite Education and Experience

- University degree in Engineering, Architecture, Facilities Management, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in facilities management, with proven experience in leading teams or projects.

Culture and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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. This includes recruiting talent and developing our people to reflect the rich diversity of our consumers and communities, fostering a culture of inclusion that engages our employees and authentically connects our brand with our consumers.

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