project manager Woodbridge
Job description
- Ensures on-time, on-budget, and to-quality delivery of complex cross-functional projects while ensuring that all milestones and governance are adhered to during planning, execution, and close-out.
- Partners with Store Development Managers to understand Project Pipeline and translate into high-level project schedules. Works with cross-functional teams to help plan all project work into day-to-day activities, while understanding high-level considerations, in accordance with overall Retail Strategy.
- Supports end-to-end planning, collaborating with required workstreams to create appropriate work-back schedules, budgets, and scopes of work based on retail strategy and framework.
- Manages all project plans, tracking progress and timelines on a weekly basis. Adjusts schedules and plans as needed, identifying risks to timelines and budgets. Partners with key stakeholders to establish mitigating tactics as required.
- Creates and manages communications process for all projects, ensuring updates are shared with applicable stakeholders as required, including retail back-office partners and senior management as required.
- Acts as primary touchpoint for all work-streams related to project activities. Establishes and maintains trusted advisor relationships with project stakeholders by providing clear direction, communication and managing expectations accurately and honestly.
- Administers budgets and tracks budget health and project resources. Formally communicates risks and outcomes, partnering with the Finance and Senior Leadership as required to resolve risks.
- Facilitates project status and review sessions, communicating revisions as required.
- Critically evaluates each project after completion and implements best practices and drives improvements.
- Provides leadership, support and assistance to all team members as required.
- Performs other duties as required.
- Knowledge of adidas brand store concepts, scheduling, budgeting, cost estimating, and fiscal management principles and procedures.
- Strong team player with proven ability to work cross functionally to achieve goals and objectives.
- Strong influencing and communications skills, with the ability to work effectively with all levels of business.
- Ability to lead a team through while under tight deadlines.
- Ability to organize resources and establish priorities
- Expert knowledge Smartsheet and MS office skills, with specific emphasis on PowerPoint and MS Excel
- A bachelor’s degree from a college or university, or a combination of education with equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience project management.
AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.
COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need..
OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.
INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.
TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.
INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company’s standards.
RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.
About adidas
CEO: BJØRN GULDEN
Revenue: $10+ billion (USD)
Size: 10000+ Employees
Type: Company - Public
Website: www.adidas-group.com
Year Founded: 1949
