Senior Project Manager - EU SCM (Temp until 15/10/2027)

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