Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This is an in-house strategy key position for an organized, passionate and goal-oriented talent 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 stakeholder’s relationship and secure buy-ins to project deliverables
• Support enhancement activities on project management capabilities and knowledge management of the team
• Uphold and enhance the brand of Strategy & Programs within own network

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive agendas on topics such as sustainable products and material innovation, business model innovation and corporate footprint management
• Senior stakeholder management, driving decision making effectively up to VP level
• Lead program, project activities and manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to (senior) management
• Execute overall project management and work streams deliverables (e.g. project planning, milestones execution and monitoring)
• Design and drive analytics framework to support project execution
• Lead interpretation of project results and translate into insights to steer the project successfully
• Effectively deploy project management toolkit to ensure high quality and consistency of deliverables
• Provide guidance and manage activities of assistant project managers and business analysts

Key Relationships:

• Initiate project activities and connect with other stakeholders to share activities at work stream level (e.g. GOPS, IT)
• Initiate and drive discussions with stakeholders to collect and consolidate feedback and gather input on solutions
• Establish working relationship and maintain regular contact with stakeholders
• Stakeholders can relate to the following core functions:

• Product (Creation functions, Footwear, Apparel and A&G product ops, etc.)
• Markets (SCM and Sales functions)
• Marketing (horizontal and vertical BU divisions)
• GOPS (Global IT, SCM, etc.)
• Corporate functions (e.g. legal, finance & performance management)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Soft skills:

• Conceptual problem solving to tackle ambiguity
• Capability to simplify complex matters and provide options
• Ability to build storyline to convey messages in a simple way
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and high level of influence skills, can-do attitude
• Ability to work independently
• Team player
• Staying calm under pressure/ being able to work on tight deadlines on multiple projects simultaneously

Hard skills:

• Strong Excel analytics
• Extensive PowerPoint knowledge and skills
• Project management
• Experience with project planning and process mapping tools (e.g. MS Project, Visio)

Requisite Education and Qualifications:

• Minimum 3-4 years of relevant work experience in MNC environment (e.g. management consulting, or regional exposure) with exposure to Sustainability topics
• Within which ~2 years of project management
• A passion for Sustainability
• University degree required, ideally related to Sustainability

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