Senior Project Manager EU SCM
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
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 project deliverables
Furthering project management capabilities and knowledge management of the team
Uphold and enhance the brand of EU SCM with (senior) stakeholders Key Responsibilities:
Lead overall program, project and work streams deliverables (e.g. project planning, milestones execution and monitoring) in alignment with strategic direction
Develop feasibility studies for new scope / new business, building scenarios, recommendations and risk analysis
Manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to sponsors and senior management
Effectively deploy project management toolkit across work streams to ensure high quality and consistency of deliverables
Monitor and highlight any project variables (cost, effort, scope, etc.) against the project plan and make suggestions to implement corrective or preventative actions.
Manage and support processes and tools that increases transparency on cost and cost drivers of the Supply Chain
Manage departmental activities (e.g. knowledge sharing and employer branding) 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: EU SCM (all functions) EU Market (all functions) GOPS (Global IT, etc.)
Corporate functions (e.g. legal, finance & performance management)
… Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Soft skills:
End-to-end mindset, big picture view of problems on hand
Strong communication skills and ability to communicate complex ideas
Proven experience presenting to executive leadership (VP level or above)
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 Hard skills:
Experience and knowledge of adidas system landscape (SAP, WMS)
Previous experience in creating custom reports in MSTR and PowerBI
Excellent analytical skills, managing data from multiple sources and synthesize the complex data to develop innovative solutions
Model and scenarios development for new business scope
Proven track records on wide areas of tools (e.g. Project planning, process mapping, enterprise solutions, etc.)
Advanced MS Office skills, especially MS Excel, Access skills preferred
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
Foster a team culture that encourages trust, open and constructive discussion of important issues Requisite Education and Qualifications:
University degree in Engineering / Business Administration / Supply Chain Management
Minimum 8 years of relevant project management experience in Supply Chain Management, preferably in Logistics, S&OP, Inventory Management within the sports goods industry
PMP and lean sigma certification preferred