Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization
This role will play an essential role in driving the successful delivery of projects within the Global Business Services (GBS) 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, by planning, 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
- Suppliers
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.
- Experience in technology implementation projects, particularly within a finance environment is strongly preferred.
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