Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

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) stakeholders relationship and secure buy-ins to project deliverables
• Coach and groom future junior talents
• Furthering project management capabilities and knowledge management of the team
• Uphold and enhance the brand of Strategy & Programs with (senior) stakeholders

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and drive overall project and workstreams deliverables (e.g. project planning, milestones execution and monitoring) in alignment with strategic direction
• Identify business opportunities through development of new capabilities, and align and balance cross-divisions’ interest
• Manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to sponsors and senior management
• Lead interpretation of project results and translate into insights to steer the project successfully
• Effectively deploy project management toolkit across workstreams to ensure high quality and consistency of deliverables
• Coach and Manage activities of (assistant) project managers and business analysts
• Manage Global Operations Strategy & Programs 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:

• Global Operations (Creation functions, Footwear, Apparel and A&G Sourcing ops, Supply Chain, etc.)
• Markets (SCM and Sales functions)
• Marketing (horizontal and vertical BU divisions)
• 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
• 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
• Coaching experience

Hard skills: * Proven track records on wide areas of tools (e.g. Project planning, process mapping, enterprise solutions, Excel analytics, etc.)

• 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)

Requisite Education and Qualifications:

• Minimum 5-6 years of relevant work experience in MNC environment (e.g. top tier consulting, project management, apparel/fashion, or supply chain management, background)
• Within which 1-2 years of relevant project leadership, team management experiences
• University degree, PMP and lean sigma certification preferred
• Strong knowledge on Sourcing business, operations, process and systems preferred

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