Current and future leadership excellence is key to our business success. With specifically designed talent management tools, we identify employees at all levels who display leadership potential....
Current and future leadership excellence is key to our business success. With specifically designed talent management tools, we identify employees at all levels who display leadership potential. Our targeted development programmes prepare them for more complex future roles:
- Executive Development Programme: A global adidas Group programme (cross-brand and cross-functional) for employees who show potential for the executive level. The programme is centrally managed and executed.
- Management Development Programme: A global adidas Group programme that is executed regionally. This programme is tailored for employees from different functional areas and brands who show potential for director positions.
- People Manager Development Programme: A global adidas Group programme that is executed locally. The programme targets employees at team leader level who show potential to become senior managers.
- Business Management Programme: A two-year international cross-functional and cross-brand programme designed to attract professionals with MBA degrees and three to five years’ work experience to prepare them for future management positions within our Group.
- Functional Trainee Programme: A 12- to 18-month programme providing graduates with international backgrounds and excellent educational credentials the opportunity to start a career with the adidas Group. The programme comprises six three-month assignments in various departments. At least one of these assignments takes place abroad.
Our development programmes are complemented by apprenticeship and internship programmes. The adidas Group apprenticeship offers young people who want to join our Group straight out of school the opportunity to gain business experience in a three-year rotation programme. The programme includes vocational training in retail, industrial management and IT as well as integrated study programmes. At the end of 2011, we employed 76 apprentices in Germany (2010: 55).
Our global internship programme offers students three to six months’ work experience within the adidas Group, and is key to our recruitment strategy. At the end of 2011, we employed 330 interns in Germany (2010: 320).