adidas · 20 hours ago
Senior Project Manager, Strategy & Execution
Spartanburg, SC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expadidas is a global leader in the sporting goods industry, and they are seeking a Senior Project Manager to support the execution of NAM SCM Strategy. This role involves managing strategic projects, driving change initiatives, and ensuring stakeholder engagement while upholding project management discipline.
American FootballApparelFitnessLifestyleManufacturingMarketingProfessional ServicesRetailSporting GoodsWholesale
Responsibilities
Manage and deliver strategic projects on a local level across brands and respective functions within the boundaries of time, cost & quality while focusing on the customers’ expectations and requirements
Uphold and enhance the brand of Strategy & Programs with (senior) stakeholders
Drive major change initiatives across functions
Manage (senior) stakeholder’s relationship and secure buy-ins to project deliverables
Coach and groom future junior talents
Deliver projects with robust project management discipline
Lead and manage to successfully deliver the assigned global and x-functional projects, end-to-end, ideally through applying PMI methodology effectively and ensure high quality and consistency of deliverables
Define, align & communicate project scope and drive creation of detailed project plans
Take strong ownership to lead and facilitate the execution and completion of the defined project plan through effectively coordinating people and resources
Drive and measure engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures to ensure KPIs are met
Monitor the project variables (cost, effort, scope, etc.) against the project plan in order to implement corrective or preventative actions
Manage the change management approach for respective project and ensure changes are smoothly and successfully implemented to achieve lasting benefits
Finalize all activities across the projects/programs to formally close and hand over the project, ensuring project documents are approved, completed, maintained, and stored appropriately
Ensure tracking of project benefits and KPIs through the project lifecycle
Think globally and x-functionally in order to identify project dependencies and their impact, raise dependency issues with the project sponsor and co-create solutions
Identifying and communicating risks early to enable mitigation efforts and maintain program goals, timelines, and costs
Resource planning
Estimate, align, and proactively track multi-functional project team resources (internals and externals) to deliver and support projects and programs
Manage, coach, develop and train the formed project team members, input to performance reviews, provide feedback and allocate work considering complexity and experience level
Establish project controlling as an independent element within the project to verify and control the allocated project costs on time in budget
Ensure compliance to SCM standards, e.g. PMO, SCM controlling standards
Manage project business case and budget through tracking and reporting the monthly budget accruals and variances and ensure timely and accurate invoicing
As conflicts and escalations arise within projects, identify solutions and propose these to project business owner or through Program Governance structure. Support their resolution in a timely and appropriate manner
Use appropriate and effective communication methods to Senior Management and project stakeholder throughout the project life cycle, in order to successfully deliver and embed the project within the organization
Ensure appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development
Allocate the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload and organizational efficiency
Continuously monitor and evaluate team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and make appropriate changes in order to meet business needs
Provide team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives
Coach and Manage activities of (assistant) project managers and business analysts
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
Qualification
Required
Four-year college or university degree with focus on with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, logistics, planning, supply chain, information systems, or operations; MBA a plus. Other experience or a combination of education and experience may be substituted for a degree
Minimum 6-8 years of relevant work experience in mid to large-scale project or program management (e.g. top tier consulting, project management, apparel/fashion, or supply chain management, background)
Strong experience in Change Management and Lean Six Sigma methodology
Ability to travel, domestic or international, as required
Preferred
PMP and lean sigma certification preferred
Company
adidas
Adidas is a global sports brand that manufactures apparel, accessories, and footwear for professional athletes involved in various sports.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (8)
2024 (7)
2023 (12)
2022 (15)
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2020 (18)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$580.46M2025-10-30Post Ipo Debt· $580.46M
2020-04-15Post Ipo Debt
2002-01-11IPO
Leadership Team
Kasper Rorsted
CEO
Fabian Hieronimus
SVP Brand Strategy & Business Development
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