Director Project Office

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Develop, support and manage key strategic initiatives, from planning to execution, across the organization to achieve adidas China's top priorities

He/she will achieve this mission by:

• Driving, guiding and consulting initiative owners in planning, execution and tracking of projects
• Providing deep-dive support on select initiatives with value-added analysis and business insights to drive initiative progress towards strategic goals
• Communicating with GCA management regarding initiative progress, risks, and recommended future actions
• Highlighting and communicating during regular Steering cadence how initiatives support and drive the overall GCA Strategy Roadmap

Key Responsibilities:

Project Planning

• Develop and execute a systematic approach to support senior management to identify the right strategic priorities to take action on
• Coordinate and manage initiative development, planning and prioritization processes across functions
• Drive and guide initiative owners to set initiative objectives, develop detailed plans and define KPIs

Project Management / Support / Communications

• Get alignment with the management team to ensure the PMO is focused on the strategic topics and top priorities
• Engage with initiative owners and senior management to determine role and contribution for each initiative
• Coordinate and drive initiative owners to generate regular progress updates while ensuring consistent planning and execution from function to function, and from head office to regions

Systems and Processes

• Closely track throughout the project life-cycle and organize regular updates with senior management on module/initiative progress
• During planning and execution, provide value-added analytical support to enable the management team to make fact-based decisions
• Coordinate with Human Resources on initiative KPI and performance evaluation

People Management

• Develop and lead the PMO team to fulfill its mission and targets
• Provide senior management with objective perspective on progress, priorities and directions while managing their expectations
• Provide advice and feedback to initiative owners and team to ensure high quality, timely execution
• Actively manage a network across the organization to ensure the PMO and the project portfolio are highly relevant to the business and its priorities

Training

• Drive and guide initiative owners to further develop project management skills and discipline

KPIs:

• Initiative achievement, contribution to initiative teams, and overall business impact
• Overall project leadership, communications, goal-oriented, problem solving, strategic influence.
• Feedback from cross-functional team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Communicate with others
• Strong process and project management skills - organized approach but also able to be flexible to meet changing needs

• Solid business sense and analytic/critical-thinking skills - able to solve problems using both conventional judgment and ad-hoc analysis

• Willingness to learn and adapt -to build business acumen and develop general management competency
• Initiative & entrepreneurial - take initiative and proactively seek opportunity for improvement

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 8-12 years of general business experience
• Experience with leading consumer brand
• Extensive experience in and strong skills of process and project management
• Experience in working closely with middle and senior managers across functions
• Experience in leading management consulting firm is a plus
• University degree or above
• MBA or other business- related qualification High proficiency or expertise with database, statistical and business intelligence systems (e.g., SAS, SPSS, R, SAP)
• Solid skills in Word, Excel, Power Point etc.
• Basic statistics and modelling knowledge
• Strong communication skills - written and spoken English and Mandarin