Responsibilities

• Global Category Strategy: Own the multi-year, annual, and seasonal global Accessories strategy across golf bags, gloves, and related categories in alignment with Golf and Brand priorities.
• Portfolio Direction: Set consumer priorities, range architecture, franchise direction, price tiers, segmentation, and product lifecycle plans across the global Accessories portfolio.
• Consumer and Market Insights: Translate consumer, athlete, competitive, and marketplace insights into clear product opportunities, briefs, and category decisions.
• Investment Priorities: Recommend category investment, innovation, and resource priorities to Product Marketing leadership and relevant Golf leadership forums.
• Global Range Management: Define the core global range while enabling appropriate Market input and locally relevant supplemental needs.
• Financial Performance: Partner with Finance, Commercial, and Markets to establish and manage category targets including net sales, margin, volume, article count, pricing, and inventory productivity.
• Business Analysis: Monitor sell-in, sell-through, margin, forecast, adoption, and competitive performance to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and initiate corrective actions.
• Portfolio Decision Making: Balance brand, consumer, cost, margin, capacity, and timeline considerations when making category and portfolio recommendations.
• Commercial Readiness: Support seasonal sell-in through compelling category narratives, product presentations, and decision-ready business updates.
• Product Creation: Lead the Accessories category from strategic brief through concept, development, commercialization, launch, and lifecycle management.

Requirements

• University degree in Business, Marketing, Product Management, Merchandising, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in product marketing, category management, merchandising, product creation, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience owning a category or meaningful multi-product portfolio across global or multi-market scope.
• Experience leading cross-functional product creation and commercial planning from strategy through commercialization.
• Strong expertise in global category strategy, product marketing, merchandising, and product creation.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with experience managing portfolio performance, margin, pricing, and other key business metrics.
• Ability to translate consumer, athlete, market, and competitive insights into clear product briefs, portfolio choices, and business decisions.
• Strong cross-functional influence, communication, and decision-making skills within a complex global matrix.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and drive alignment across functions and Markets.
• Working knowledge of golf bags, gloves, soft goods, materials, construction, and supplier capabilities.

Preferred

• People leadership experience with responsibility for coaching, development, prioritization, and team performance.
• Experience in golf, sporting goods, bags, gloves, accessories, or related soft goods categories.
• Experience developing multi-season category, portfolio, and product lifecycle strategies.
• Experience partnering with Finance and Commercial teams to establish and manage category financial targets.
• Experience working with Product Development and Sourcing partners, Creation Centers, suppliers, vendors, or innovation partners.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage including HSA with employer funding or FSA options, dental, vision, and prescription plans.
• Adoption, surrogate, and fertility support programs.
• Short and long term disability coverage.
• Basic life and AD and D insurance with supplemental employee paid options.
• 401(k) plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match or applicable adidas contributions.
• Education assistance for eligible full time employees.
• Paid parental and other eligible leave programs.
• Flexible Time Off accrued at 0.4388 hours per day for employees with less than five years of service, increasing with tenure.
• Twelve Company-Designated paid holidays, including a Floating Holiday, plus milestone Service Time Off for eligible employees.
• Employee product discounts and access to wellness and Employee Assistance programs.