Adidas SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER SUPPLY CHAIN 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

602784565

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This is a key in-house Supply Chain strategy position for an

:

• 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 orSenior 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