Senior Project Manager Global Supply Chain Direct To Consumer (m/f/d)

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Purpose

Direct to Consumer business will represent the majority of adidas revenues by 2025 and it is a yearly double-digit growth which is expected for it in the next 5 years. Beyond sales, the impact we can create on every consumer thanks to Retail, eCom, Omni and Partner Programs is massive and unique.

This is a key in-house 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.

• Drive major change initiatives across functions
• Manage (senior) stakeholder’s relationship and secure buy-ins to DTC SC project deliverables
• Coach and groom future junior talents furthering project management capabilities and knowledge management of the team
• Uphold and enhance the brand of DTC SC Projects Management with (senior) stakeholders
  

Key Accountabilities

• Lead specific DTC SC program, project and work streams deliverables (e.g. project planning, milestones execution and monitoring) in alignment with strategic direction
• Identify business opportunities through development of new capabilities, and align and balance cross-divisions’ interest
• Manage effective and timely communication on DTC SC project progress and results to sponsors and senior management
• Lead interpretation of DTC SC 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
• Coach and Manage activities of (assistant) project managers and business analysts
  

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 can relate to the following core functions:
• Markets (MD, SCM and DTC functions)
• Sales (Omnichannel)
• DSS
• GOPS
• GSCM
• Finance (Controlling and IT)
  

Knowledge, Capabilities And Experience

Soft skills

• 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
• Coaching experience
  

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 lean six-sigma certification
• Other HR toolboxes (e.g., Campus and self-learning modules)
• 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
  

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, team management experiences
• University degree, PMP and lean sigma certification preferred