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Adidas MANAGER GBS PROJECT MANAGEMENT 
Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 
780269295

06.04.2025

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing projects end-to-end, planning, coordinating, and executing projects/programs that optimize business processes, improve service delivery, implement new systems and support the organization’s strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible to lead E2E projects, byplanning, managing, and execute all key initiatives from initiation to closure, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and budget (where applicable).
  • Ensure collaboration with cross-functional teams in GBS and/or others, to gather requirements, define project objectives, and develop detailed project plans.
  • Monitor project progress and performance, identifying and addressing risks, issues, and dependencies.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals, expectations, and deliverables.
  • Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs.
  • Analyze the impact of change initiatives and develop preventive and corrective measures to ensure adoption
  • Facilitate project meetings, including kick-off sessions, status updates, and lessons learned reviews.
  • Ensure effective communication throughout the project lifecycle to all relevant stakeholders, according to the Project Services reporting process.
  • Support continuous improvement efforts within GBS by identifying opportunities to enhance processes and optimize ways of working.
  • Maintain and ensure project documentation is up to date, as per our delivery standards, including status reports, risk logs, action plans, and project dashboards.
  • Contribute to the development and enhancement of project management methodologies and best practices within the GBS organization.

Key Relationships:

  • GBS Leadership Team
  • GBS Transition Management team
  • Functional Service Leads
  • Hub Leadership team
  • Process Owners (Process Excellence teams)
  • Operations Leads
  • Tech and Global IT

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Broad knowledge and experience in Project Management principles and methodologies (e.g.: Agile, Waterfall)
  • PMI certification would be a plus
  • Experience in change management, business process optimization or continuous improvement initiatives (knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma or VSM would be a plus).
  • Knowledge in the most common Change Management theories & practices
  • Project management capabilities with demonstrated success completing multiple cross-functional and cross-business projects.
  • Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate at various levels, including senior leadership.
  • Experience working closely with cross-functional teams and balancing competing workloads.
  • Self-motivated with the ability to not only work in a group/individual setting but able to drive action and independently with little to no direction.
  • Pro- active (engaging & impact-oriented) mindset, ability to think end-to-end with a global mindset
  • Ability to be self-directed while working under tight deadlines
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a multi-team environment to achieve consensus decisions, always having adidas consistent growth in mind
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze issues, develop solutions, and implement effective changes.
  • Excellent organizational skills, with a keen eye for detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels.
  • Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business setting
  • Proficiency in, MS Office(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project), Jira and Smartsheet.


Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

  • Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function
  • University degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, or a related field
  • 5 plus years of experience in project management, preferably within a GBS, shared services, or related environment.