Senior Project Manager SCM Responsiveness

at  Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
This is a strategic project management role for an organized, passionate, and goal-oriented future leader. This role will lead x-functional and x-cluster workstreams, drive major change initiatives across functions to build in ‘Responsiveness’ capabilities in Emerging Markets. Manage (senior) stakeholder’s relationship and secure buy-ins to project deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead SCM workstreams within ‘Responsiveness’ program for Emerging Markets in alignment with strategic direction of the program.
• Identify business opportunities across Emerging Markets - clusters, further the strategic vision of implementing ‘Responsiveness’ in Emerging Markets.
• Key tasks include project planning, milestones execution and monitoring.
• Manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to sponsors and senior management.
• Lead interpretation of program, project results and translate into insights to steer the project successfully.
• Effectively deploy project management toolkit across work streams to ensure high quality and consistency of deliverables.
• Manage supply chain development departmental activities (e.g. knowledge sharing)

Key Relationships:

• Drive project activities and connect with other stakeholders to share activities across work streams.
• Initiate and drive discussions with x-functional stakeholders to collect and consolidate feedback, prepare, and align solutions.
• Proactively manage stakeholders, build relationships, and manage communication.
• Stakeholders related to the project:
• GOPS functions (Advanced Analytics, DNA, Global IT, Sourcing)
• SCM – Cluster Leads, Product Supply, Global SCM S&P
• Market Functions – Brand, Cluster leads
• EM Finance

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Soft skills:

• End-to-end mindset, big picture view of business processes
• Independently manage portfolio of tasks and handle upward communication proactively
• Highly self-motivated individual
• Engaging, open and react to feedbacks and improve
• Change management skills by influencing network of stakeholders

Hard skills:

• Proven track records on wide areas of tools (e.g. Project planning, process mapping, Excel analytics, etc.)
• Solid presentation and storytelling skills
• Functional knowledge of Product Supply and/or sourcing is an advantage.

Requisite Education and Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience in project management, and/or supply chain management
• Within which 1-2 years of relevant project leadership, team management experiences
• University degree, PMP and lean sigma certification preferred.

• Lead SCM workstreams within ‘Responsiveness’ program for Emerging Markets in alignment with strategic direction of the program.
• Identify business opportunities across Emerging Markets - clusters, further the strategic vision of implementing ‘Responsiveness’ in Emerging Markets.
• Key tasks include project planning, milestones execution and monitoring.
• Manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to sponsors and senior management.
• Lead interpretation of program, project results and translate into insights to steer the project successfully.
• Effectively deploy project management toolkit across work streams to ensure high quality and consistency of deliverables.
• Manage supply chain development departmental activities (e.g. knowledge sharing