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 <ul> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">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).</li> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ensure collaboration with cross-functional teams in GBS and/or others, to gather requirements, define project objectives, and develop detailed project plans.</li> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Monitor project progress and performance, identifying and addressing risks, issues, and dependencies.</li> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals, expectations, and deliverables.</li> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs.</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Analyze the impact of change initiatives and develop preventive and corrective measures to ensure adoption</li> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Facilitate project meetings, including kick-off sessions, status updates, and lessons learned reviews.</li> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ensure effective communication throughout the project lifecycle to all relevant stakeholders, according to the Project Services reporting process.</li> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Support continuous improvement efforts within GBS by identifying opportunities to enhance processes and optimize ways of working.</li> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Maintain and ensure project documentation is up to date, as per our delivery standards, including status reports, risk logs, action plans, and project dashboards.</li> <li style="line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Contribute to the development and enhancement of project management methodologies and best practices within the GBS organization.</li> </ul> Key Relationships <ul> <li style="color:black;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">GBS Leadership Team</li> <li style="color:black;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">GBS Transition Management team</li> <li style="color:black;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Functional Service Leads</li> <li style="color:black;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Hub Leadership team</li> <li style="color:black;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Process Owners (Process Excellence teams)</li> <li style="color:black;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Operations Leads </li> <li style="color:black;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Tech and Global IT</li> <li style="color:black;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Suppliers</li> </ul> Knowledge, Skills and Abilities <ul> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Broad knowledge and experience in Project Management principles and methodologies (e.g.: Agile, Waterfall)</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">PMI certification would be a plus</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Experience in change management, business process optimization or continuous improvement initiatives (knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma or VSM would be a plus).</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Knowledge in the most common Change Management theories & practices </li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Project management capabilities with demonstrated success completing multiple cross-functional and cross-business projects.</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate at various levels, including senior leadership.</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Experience working closely with cross-functional teams and balancing competing workloads.</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">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.</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Pro- active (engaging & impact-oriented) mindset, ability to think end-to-end with a global mindset</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to be self-directed while working under tight deadlines</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a multi-team environment to achieve consensus decisions, always having adidas consistent growth in mind</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze issues, develop solutions, and implement effective changes.</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Excellent organizational skills, with a keen eye for detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities.</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business setting</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Proficiency in, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project), Jira and Smartsheet.</li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications <ul> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Broad and deep theoretical understanding of job function</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">University degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, or a related field</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">5 plus years of experience in project management, preferably within a GBS, shared services, or related environment.</li> <li style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Experience in technology implementation projects, particularly within a finance environment is strongly preferred.</li> </ul>

Manager GBS Project Management (Porto, 13, PT) @ adidas

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