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