Senior Project Manager Distribution (m/f/d)

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Manage and deliver mid-scale Distribution & Supply Chain projects (< € 5 million) or sub elements of larger-scale projects on a local or global level/for the Europe region across brands and respective functions within the boundaries of time, cost & quality while focusing on the customers’ expectations and requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Lead and manage to successfully deliver the assigned global and x-functional projects, end-to-end, ideally through applying PMI/a standardized methodology effectively.
• Ensure full understanding of project scope to be able to design detailed project plans.
• Manage 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 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.

Dependency Management

• Think globally and x-functionally to identify project dependencies and their impact, raise dependency issues with the project sponsor and co-create solutions

Resource planning

• Form and lead 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.
• Partner with the internal market SCM, TECH, business units, finance department to identify and agree on project requirements and goals to then set up and manage related 3 PL projects on Warehousing and Transport.
• Partner with the internal Supplier Management department to manage external suppliers (e.g. conduct interviews, financial management of external supplier costs).

Financials and Controlling

• 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 adidas & Supply Chain Management standards, e.g. PMO, controlling standards.
• Manage project budget through tracking and reporting the monthly budget accruals and variances and ensure timely and accurate invoicing.

Communication

• As conflicts and escalations arise within projects, identify solutions and propose these to project sponsor and support their resolution in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Use appropriate and effective communication methods to Senior Management and project stakeholders throughout the project life cycle, to successfully deliver and embed the project within the organization.

Authorities:

Project budget responsibility when leading a project

Key Relationships:

• Supply Chain Management global and market-based teams/SCM market team
• Global TECH
• Respective business function (Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail/E-COM)
• Supplier Management
• HR Management
• Controlling
• External consultants (as needed)/3 PL provider

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to coach, guide and manage a (project) team.
• Pro-active (engaging & impact-oriented) mindset, ability to think end-to-end.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with different international cultures.
• Business mindset: strong numerical and analytical skills, experience in finance, process driven.
• Strong experience to manage complex global projects on 3PL WHS and 3PL transport related initiatives.
• Good market know how on 3PL Transport-/ Warehouse Provider and related networks.
• Strong experience to work on several projects simultaneously.
• Strong communication (both written and verbal) and facilitation skills (small and large groups) especially when interacting with different levels of business.
• Ability to analyse and resolve issues, managing risks and making effective decisions.
• Excellent analytical, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Strong project management skills and managing different project with SCM know-how
• Ability to travel up to 50% of working time, domestic or international, as required.
• Fluent English skills (verbal and written).
• Strong MS-Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Four-year college or university degree with focus on Supply Chain Management, or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 6-8 years of progressive work experience in mid to large-scale project or program management in the field of logistics / transport management.
• Strong experience managing complex Distribution Center projects. Ideally experience related to leading Greenfield/Brownfield Distribution Center projects or process optimization (of Material Flow) projects.
• Ideally PMI/Project Management certified.
• 1–2 years of experience in managing a team.

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