Senior Project Manager - GOPS Strategy Office (f/m)

Job description

Country: Germany
Job Function: Strategy

State / Province: Germany
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Herzogenaurach
Brand: adidas

Relocation: Yes

Somewhere, in one of our workshops right now, the future is taking shape. We are constantly working to redefine the way clothing and footwear transforms the pitch, court or course. This is what drives us: the feeling of discovery and the urge to innovate. When we create a product that makes our hearts beat faster, we know we’re onto something.

If this sounds inspiring, you might be one of us: Someone who loves to create the present, as well as shape the future. There’s a reason adidas has been at the forefront of defining sport for more than 60 years: We never stand still. Everyday, we work to improve everything we create.

At adidas, interesting, amazing and inspiring aren’t just ideas. They are what we do every single day.

Purpose

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
· Coach and groom future junior talents
· Furthering project management capabilities and knowledge management of the team
· Uphold and enhance the brand of Strategy & Projects with (senior) stakeholders

Key Accountabilities

· Lead overall 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 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
· Coach and Manage activities of (assistant) project managers and business analysts
· Manage Product Strategy & Programs departmental activities (e.g. knowledge sharing and employer branding)

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