Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
This is a key in-house Supply Chain strategy position for an organized, passionate, and goal-oriented future leader who understands what projects have in common, and their strategic role in how organizations succeed, learn and change. This role will help shape and deliver our global Supply Chain strategy while working closely with the company’s senior leadership. The team is also an incubator for talent for the rest of the organization and aims at developing future leaders and providing an accelerated career trajectory.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead overall project, and work streams deliverables (e.g., project planning, milestones execution and monitoring) in alignment with strategic direction
• Manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to sponsors and senior management (PMO activities)
• Lead interpretation of 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
• Coach and Manage activities of (assistant) project resources (internal and external)
• Develop a broad view of adidas organization and processes to act as content driver and thought partner on projects
• Contribute to the Strategy & Programs departmental activities (e.g., knowledge sharing and employer branding)
• Ad’hoc support of the business in areas where strong structuring and strategic thinking might be required (e.g., crisis management, change management)

Key Relationships:

• Report to the Director or Senior Director Digital SC Solutions Projects
• adidas SCM senior leadership team
• 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 can relate to the following core functions:
• Global SCM, Sourcing, Tech, Finance, etc.
• Markets SCM and Sales functions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Soft skills:

• Ability to thrive and learn in demanding environment
• End-to-end mindset, big picture view of problems on hand
• Engaging, open and react to feedbacks and improve
• Highly self-motivated individuals
• Independently manage portfolio of tasks and handle upward communication proactively
• Change management skills of influencing network of stakeholders
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to synthesize messages and provide top-down communication

Hard skills:

• Proven track records on wide areas of tools (e.g., Project planning, process mapping, enterprise solutions, Excel analytics, etc.)
• Solid presentation and storytelling skills
• Discipline in planning time management and organization skills
• Project management

People management skills:

• Manage project teams
• Coach junior team members through providing feedbacks to support the development and performance of the team
• Drive and manage onboarding
• Support recruiting
• Foster a team culture that encourages trust, open and constructive discussion of important issues

Requisite Education and Qualifications:

• Minimum 5-6 years of relevant work experience in MNC environment (e.g., top tier consulting, project management, apparel/fashion, or supply chain management, background)
• Within which 1-2 years of relevant project leadership and/or team management experiences
• University degree

• Lead overall project, and work streams deliverables (e.g., project planning, milestones execution and monitoring) in alignment with strategic direction
• Manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to sponsors and senior management (PMO activities)
• Lead interpretation of 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
• Coach and Manage activities of (assistant) project resources (internal and external)
• Develop a broad view of adidas organization and processes to act as content driver and thought partner on projects
• Contribute to the Strategy & Programs departmental activities (e.g., knowledge sharing and employer branding)
• Ad’hoc support of the business in areas where strong structuring and strategic thinking might be required (e.g., crisis management, change management