Adidas MANAGER PROJECT OFFICE 

United States, South Carolina, Spartanburg 

114838200

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Develop, support and manage key initiatives across the organization to achieve GCA’s top priorities

He/she will achieve this mission by:

• Driving and guiding initiative owners in planning, execution and tracking of projects
• Providing deep-dive support on select initiatives with value-added analysis
• Communicating with GCA management regarding initiative progress, risks, and recommended future actions

• Manage modules and initiatives tracking and monthly update process
• Develop and manage PMO tools (e.g. tracking, templates, summary dashboards, file archives) for efficient and organized execution

• Coordinate and manage initiative development, planning and prioritization processes across functions
• Engage with senior management to identify initiative owners and core team members
• Drive and guide initiative owners to set initiative objectives, develop detailed plans and define KPIs
• Coordinate and drive initiative owners to generate regular progress updates
• Proactively recommend and align on additional support to be provided
• Provide active process management and value-added analysis – typically focused on initiatives that require:

• New or custom process development
• Ad-hoc data analysis and insight
• Heavy cross-functional alignment and management

Project Communication and Milestones

• Work with PMO team to prepare regular updates to senior management on overall progress of modules and initiatives
• Provide senior management with objective perspective on progress, priorities and directions while managing their expectations
• Work with initiative owners to build high quality and constructive project updates for management review
• Act as liaison and communication bridge across the organization to build alignment on initiative direction and priorities, and to manage cross-initiative interdependences
• Proactively share best practices and escalate any potential issues, risks and new opportunities identified
• Coordinate meeting preparations for regular PMO workshops and milestones

• Drive and guide initiative owners to further develop project management skills and discipline

KPIs:

• Initiative achievement, contribution to initiative teams, and overall business impact
• Overall project leadership, communications, goal-oriented, problem solving, strategic influence.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Communicate with others
• Strong process and project management skills – organized approach but also able to be flexible to meet changing needs

• Solid business sense and analytic/critical-thinking skills – able to solve problems using both conventional judgment and ad-hoc analysis

• Willingness to learn and adapt –to build business acumen and develop general management competency
• Initiative & entrepreneurial – take initiative and proactively seek opportunity for improvement

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or above
• Minimum 3-5 years of general business experience
• Experience with leading consumer brand
• Experience in and strong skills of process and project management
• Experience in working closely with middle and senior managers across functions
• Experience in leading management consulting firm is a plus
• Solid skills in Word, Excel, Power Point etc.
• Basic statistics and modeling knowledge
• Strong communication skills – written and spoken English and Mandarin

  Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

  Develop, support and manage key initiatives across the organization to achieve GCA’s top priorities

  He/she will achieve this mission by:

• Driving and guiding initiative owners in planning, execution and tracking of projects
• Providing deep-dive support on select initiatives with value-added analysis
• Communicating with GCA management regarding initiative progress, risks, and recommended future actions

• Key Responsibilities:

  Project Portfolio Management and Evaluation
• Manage modules and initiatives tracking and monthly update process
• Develop and manage PMO tools (e.g. tracking, templates, summary dashboards, file archives) for efficient and organized execution
• Project Planning, Execution and Tracking
• Coordinate and manage initiative development, planning and prioritization processes across functions
• Engage with senior management to identify initiative owners and core team members
• Drive and guide initiative owners to set initiative objectives, develop detailed plans and define KPIs
• Coordinate and drive initiative owners to generate regular progress updates
• Proactively recommend and align on additional support to be provided
• Provide active process management and value-added analysis – typically focused on initiatives that require:
• New or custom process development
• Ad-hoc data analysis and insight
• Heavy cross-functional alignment and management

• Project Communication and Milestones

• Work with PMO team to prepare regular updates to senior management on overall progress of modules and initiatives
• Provide senior management with objective perspective on progress, priorities and directions while managing their expectations
• Work with initiative owners to build high quality and constructive project updates for management review
• Act as liaison and communication bridge across the organization to build alignment on initiative direction and priorities, and to manage cross-initiative interdependences
• Proactively share best practices and escalate any potential issues, risks and new opportunities identified
• Coordinate meeting preparations for regular PMO workshops and milestones
• Training
• Drive and guide initiative owners to further develop project management skills and discipline

• KPIs:

• Initiative achievement, contribution to initiative teams, and overall business impact
• Overall project leadership, communications, goal-oriented, problem solving, strategic influence.

• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Communicate with others
• Strong process and project management skills – organized approach but also able to be flexible to meet changing needs
• Solid business sense and analytic/critical-thinking skills – able to solve problems using both conventional judgment and ad-hoc analysis
• Willingness to learn and adapt –to build business acumen and develop general management competency
• Initiative & entrepreneurial – take initiative and proactively seek opportunity for improvement

• Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or above
• Minimum 3-5 years of general business experience
• Experience with leading consumer brand
• Experience in and strong skills of process and project management
• Experience in working closely with middle and senior managers across functions
• Experience in leading management consulting firm is a plus
• Solid skills in Word, Excel, Power Point etc.
• Basic statistics and modeling knowledge
• Strong communication skills – written and spoken English and Mandarin